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Job Description
Do you want to be apart of helping people make positive wellbeing and lifestyle changes? Do you have experience of delivery brief support and advice?
Consider the role of a Health Check Practitioner at Reed Wellbeing!
Our high impact lifestyle services help people improve their health. We provide easy-to-access, effective interventions that address a range of lifestyle issues.
With our support, people make sustainable change that will help them improve their wellbeing, become healthier and reduce their chances of developing illnesses.
Health Check Practitioners are critical to the successful delivery of Reed Wellbeing's world class evidence-based health check programme.
Health Check Practitioners will work either in groups or alone (dependent on need and delivery location) to deliver the Norfolk NHS Health Check Catch-Up Programme at workplaces and community venues.
What is the role about?
Comprising of both pre-booked and opportunistic health check delivery, Health Check Practitioners will be responsible for delivering our health check service to agreed quality standards to support commissioner objectives in placing prevention at the heart of health and wellbeing delivery.
As we get older, we have a higher risk of developing some health conditions like high blood pressure, heart disease or Type 2 diabetes. Reed Wellbeing have been commissioned to provide NHS Health Checks to 40-74 year olds across Norfolk to help thousands of local people reduce these risks and live a better life for longer
As a health check practitioner, you will have the chance to help a wide range of participants understand their risks and set themselves achievable goals to improve their health and wellbeing
Just some of your day-to-day responsibilities will include:
- Setting up a health check workstation
- Sensitively and appropriately asking participants NHS Health Check questions
- Conducting point of care testing, including taking blood and measuring blood pressure
- Effectively communicating risk and next steps to participants.
- Motivating people to make positive wellbeing a lifestyle changes
- Using Reed Wellbeing Systems
Health Check Practitioners will be provided with appropriate support and development across all service delivery areas.
What's in it for you?
A generous base salary (pro-rata for part time), and great flexibility with your working schedule, we offer training, development and progression opportunities. You will have access to the range of Reed in Partnership benefits, which include:
- 25 days annual leave (pro-rata for part time) plus statutory bank holidays
- Reed Pension Scheme
- Award Winning Management & Leadership training
- Professional & Personal Development Funds
- Bi-annual pay reviews
With the chance to dramatically make a difference to the local community, this role offers immense job satisfaction.
At Reed in Partnership, we live and breathe our values in every decision and action taken, resulting in a collaborative and enjoyable culture within our offices. Our company values - we are fair open and honest; we take ownership, and we work together
Required Skills & Experience:
- Experience of working with or facilitating diverse participant groups
- Experience of/interest in working with individuals or groups to achieve behavioural or lifestyle changes
- Experience of delivering brief advice support
- Ability to establish an effective and appropriate rapport with programme participants who need to achieve and maintain lifestyle changes (e.g. Healthy weight, increased physical activity, reduction in alcohol intake)
- Willingness to undertake evening and weekend work as required
- Willingness and flexibility to travel in order to deliver programmes across designated region.
Desirable Personal Attributes:
- Delivery of NHS Health Check
- Training for NHS Health Checks delivery
- Background in healthcare delivery (e.g. in nutrition, physical activity, smoking cessation or healthy lifestyle delivery)
- Measuring blood pressure
- Point of care blood testing
- Communication of health risk and lifestyle advice.
- Experience of working with or facilitating diverse participant group
Feel what it's like to truly belong...
All job offers are subject to satisfactory references and compliance with vetting requirements applicable to the job role. Reed is an equal opportunities employer. We aim to ensure that no candidate or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity. We are a Mindful Employer and offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria. As a proud signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, we welcome applications from ex-services personnel, reservists and cadets and offer a guaranteed interview for applicants who meet the minimum criteria.