Nutrition Specialist

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Health and Wellbeing Coach to join our team at Maximus UK. As a Specialist Health & Wellbeing Coach, you will play a critical role in providing individually tailored diet, nutrition, and behaviour change advice to service users/participants to manage their weight and make sustainable changes to improve their overall health and wellbeing.

• Provide evidence-based dietary and behaviour change services via one-to-one and group-based service delivery, ensuring operational safety of weight management group programmes.
• Support your caseload to implement experiments, track behaviours, utilise tech-enabled support, make best use of resources, support each other, explore/use wider community provision, and achieve their outcomes.
• Empower children, families, and adults to manage their weight and lifestyle-behaviours effectively and support service users/participants in achieving their own self-identified health and wellbeing goals.
• Deliver medium and high need nutritional and behaviour change services for eligible participants, ensuring accurate and timely data collection and reporting in line with contractual and case management system requirements.
• Work in line with business and contract performance requirements, including implementing Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), fulfilling policies and quality management framework expectations, and participating in regular audits and performance observations.

• AFN registered degree in Nutrition or HCPC registered degree in dietetics with portfolio evidence of continuous professional development.
• Experience in delivering group-based behaviour change interventions to children, families, or adults, with evidence of supporting vulnerable individuals through a change process.
• Experience of caseload management demonstrated via the use of a Case Management System.
• Experience of lesson planning and nutritional/weight management content creation.
• Experience of inputting and processing data where accuracy, targets, and time deadlines are operating in the workplace.
• Evidence of continuous professional development to ensure the delivery of the most recent and up-to-date health coaching provision to the correct quality standard.
• Experience of working in a health, community, or social care environment or good understanding of the issues around maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

• A health coaching qualification or an accredited health coaching skills programme.
• Experience of direct health coaching delivery.
• Experience in delivering behaviour change interventions for specific lifestyle-related issues (e.g., smoking cessation, physical activity, NHS Health Checks, weight management, alcohol reduction).
• Evidence of working with individuals with long-term health conditions.
• Experience of working in community settings.
• Experience of managing own caseload.
• Experience of supporting people with additional needs.

• A strong understanding of the social determinants of health.
• A strong understanding of population-based approaches, including segmentation and risk stratification.