Family Coach - Health Promotion
Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster
About Us
At Family Action, we transform lives by providing practical, emotional, and financial support to those who are experiencing poverty, disadvantage, and social isolation. We have been building stronger families since 1869, and today we work with more than 60,000 families in over 150 community-based services, as well as supporting thousands more through national programmes and grants.
Part of a wider system approach, the Change4Life service focuses on national and local public health priorities including oral health, healthy eating, emotional wellbeing, and physical activity. The service aims to maximise the promotion of health messages, ensuring children, young people, and families have many opportunities to put them into practice.
We are now looking for a Family Coach to join us on a full-time, fixed-term basis, working 37 hours per week until 30th June 2025, with the possibility of an extension.
The Benefits
- Salary of up to £34,862 per annum (inclusive of Inner London Weighting) (pro rata)
- Annual paid leave entitlement of 25 working days, rising each April by one day, subject to a maximum of 30 working days plus bank holidays (pro rata)
- Up to 6% matched-pension contributions
- Enhanced paid sick leave
- Enhanced paid family leave provisions
- Eye care and winter flu jabs vouchers
- Cycle to work scheme
- Investment in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities
This is a rewarding opportunity for a compassionate individual with experience of promoting wellbeing and a background in working with disadvantaged and diverse communities to join our dedicated organisation.
In this vital role, your efforts will directly contribute to our mission of transforming lives by providing innovative and holistic support to families who need it most, promoting healthier lifestyles and supporting them to achieve their goals.
So, if you want to work alongside a committed team that empowers you to make a real difference in the community, read on and apply today!
The Role
As a Family Coach, you will support the delivery of Change4Life services to children, young people and families across the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster City Council.
Specifically, you'll deliver collaborative, holistic and outcomes focused plans of support to improve wellbeing, reduce childhood obesity, promote physical activity and improve oral health, assessing individual needs to develop personalised goals.
Working with local authorities, you'll promote national and local public health priorities and a whole systems approach to reducing health inequalities, providing direct support and guidance to families on a one-to-one basis in their homes or other community settings.
Additionally, you will:
- Ensure compliance with procedures for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults
- Work closely with and support volunteers
- Maintain accurate, up to date records
About You
To be considered as a Family Coach, you will need:
- Experience of working with disadvantaged and diverse children, young people and their families
- Experience of devising and delivering short term, individually tailored and outcomes focused support plans that improve health and wellbeing
- Experience of using a range of techniques (Motivational Interviewing/Personal Centred/ Community Centred/solution Focused/CBT) in promoting behaviour change
- Experience of successfully engaging diverse communities of families in health and wellbeing
- An understanding of contemporary health topics and public health agenda, relating to pregnancy, children and young people, families and health including emotional health and wellbeing
- Up to date knowledge and experience of safeguarding issues and procedures, including knowledge and understanding of integrated working practices and the range of services and agencies to involve
- Strong record keeping skills
- Excellent inter and intrapersonal skills
- To be educated to NVQ Level 3 or above in social work, health, education or equivalent experience of working in Health Promotion Service
The closing date for this role is the 22nd August 2024.
Other organisations may call this role Health Promotion Coach, Family Support Worker, Community Health Coach, or Wellbeing Coach.
Webrecruit and Family Action are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.
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