Health Coach

**We adopt a ‘name blind’ approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made - please note that this also includes any CV uploaded. Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage.**

**Organisation**
- Kirklees

**Directorate**
- Adults & Health

**Service Area**
- Communities and Access Service

**Hours**
- 37

**Number of Jobs**
- 2

**Location(s)**
- Across Kirklees

**Position type**
- Temporary

**Length of contract**
- Fixed Term Contracts for 24 months

**Grade**
- Grade 8

**Salary**
- £27,852 - £29,439

**The Role**:
In Kirklees we want to be innovative and creative in the way we work to deliver our services with communities. Investing in relationships with those communities is at the core of what we do. We want to meet changing and challenging times with better and smarter ways to work.

**The Wellness Service is growing from strength to strength, and we are delighted to offer this opportunity for additional Health Coaches to join the existing Health Coaching Team within the Wellness Service.**

The Health Coach is about being part of a flexible team, working across a partnership of Primary Care and the Council.

As part of this role you will:

- Effectively manage a large client caseload whilst providing high level Health Coaching support on both a 1-1 and group basis.
- Have the ability to establish a positive rapport with individuals through utilisation of the latest evidence-based Health Coaching techniques
- Have the Ability to build key relationships with major stakeholders including local primary care networks and third sector organisations

As a Health Coach within Wellness you will have a caseload of clients who you work with, using coaching tools and techniques, to improve their health and wellbeing.

You will work collaboratively with a range of partners and build effective relationships across those partnerships to improve health outcomes for individuals and communities.

Wellness is defined as a proactive, preventive approach that emphasises the whole person and which works to achieve optimum levels of physical, mental, social and emotional health.

This role is part of a team responsible for developing an integrated Health Improvement approach for adults; to help people build their capacity to maintain good health and be independent.

We want to bring together organisations, people and services to develop a shared approach, using a ‘strengths based’ mind-set that acknowledges, builds upon and unlocks the strengths, skills and capacities of people to live healthy lives utilising the assets within the local community.

We want to build on the existing strengths and assets of people and communities and will support individuals to find solutions to things which determine their health and prevent health conditions developing or worsening.

**Role **Requirements**

A relevant qualification or experience of working in a health, social care, and wellbeing/community field is essential, as we are looking for highly skilled health coaches with experience of working with communities.

This role requires a degree of flexibility, may include evening/weekend work and the ability to travel between Kirklees wide venues/locations on a daily basis.

Applications are particularly encouraged from people with community language skills.

**For a full list of the role requirements please see the attached Job Profile.**:
**The Team**:
You will be part of a highly skilled, high performing, dynamic team that is committed to supporting the Kirklees population improve their health and wellbeing and promote independence.

As a team we embed all councils’ values, we ‘_put people at the heart of everything we do’_. _This value is underpinned by our service delivery philosophy which is shaped by a ‘person centred approach’.

**Benefits**:

- Generous annual leave entitlement
- Ongoing Training and Career development (including basic and advanced Health Coaching training)
- Excellent pension scheme
- A range of family friendly polices
- We offer a wide range of well-being initiatives including a cycle to work scheme and discounted KAL membership- ***
***or phone: 01484 221000 and ask for ‘Recruitment’.- We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.**Closing date**

24 January 2023, 11:55 PM

**Important Information**:

- Health Coach Job Profile.pdf - 231KB