Part Time Health Coach

**More Than Just A Job.**

Are you passionate about making a difference and want to join a commercial organisation with a social purpose?

Do you also want to work in an exciting, start-up environment where you will have the opportunity to help shape the company culture, be challenged, learn new skills and innovate?

If the answer is yes, we would love to hear from you.

Jobs 22 is an innovative new company created by the national UK charity, Catch22 and the Angus Knight Group. Catch22 has designed and delivered services that build resilience and aspiration in people and communities for over 200 years, and the Angus Knight Group is a major provider of human services across Australia and a skills provider in the UK.

With the support and experience of these established organisations, we are building a new approach to helping individuals who may have been out of work for a significant period of time, to find employment.

We have a dedicated team of supportive coaches, skills trainers, occupational health advisors and labour market analysts, all focused on inspiring and motivating individuals to overcome barriers they may have to get back into meaningful and sustainable employment.

As part of a new government initiative, we are working with employers, local government and other partners to deliver tailored support for individuals across several parts of the UK.

Our mission is to deliver a thoughtful, effective and commercial approach to helping individuals create better lives for themselves and their local communities, through work.

**About The Role**

The role of the Health Coach is to provide services with the aim of empowering your clients to achieve their goals and maximise their independence, helping people with long-term health conditions improve their health management and return to work.

The post holder will provide skilled Triage assessments and deliver evidence-based health and employment focussed interventions to participants on the programme, utilising their specialist skills, knowledge and experience to provide participants with advice, guidance and support tailored to the participants individual needs. The post holder will take a holistic approach to long-term health condition management and work closely with Employment Coaches, other Jobs 22 employees and health services to help people improve their lives.

This role is responsible for providing individuals with work-focused health services (including access to high quality, evidence-based and cost-effective health solutions) to support performance and improve the opportunity for individuals to reach their potential.

You will work with adult clients from all walks of life, with a broad range of abilities and often the very vulnerable with complex needs. You will have the ability to work via digital video, over the telephone and face to face. A stipulation of this role is registration with the NMC or BACP or equivalent.

**Direct Delivery to Participants**
- Conducting triage assessments with participants.
- Providing face to face and telephone or video based interventions to participants.
- Delivering workshops with groups of participants.
- Monitoring participants health and wellbeing in individual and group work, reporting any significant changes which may impact positively or negatively on a participants recovery and return to work to the employment specialists.
- Producing tailored health action plans for each participant referred, focusing on improving their health and moving them closer to work.
- Offering advice and guidance to participants with regard to their health conditions and empowering individuals to manage their health more independently and effectively. Providing return to work guidance and offer in-work support as required.
- Delivering lifestyle, health specific, and psycho-educational workshops.
- Ensuring participants are able to access appropriate self-help material.
- Referring participants to specialist services, agencies and organisations where appropriate.
- Joint working with other operational roles and other health professionals.
- Assisting and supporting as many participants into full time sustainable work as possible

**Maintaining Accurate Records**
- Ensuring that all participant related activities are recorded accurately and appropriately on our systems in a timely manner, as per KPIs and professional standards.
- Updating and uploading participants health action plans onto the system as appropriate after appointment and group sessions
- Recording all other supporting documentation as appropriate onto participants files
- Providing statistics in relation to performance by the end of each month, and for quarterly reviews, as per KPIs.

**Manage Risk Related Issues Appropriately**
- Escalate any risk issues as per Jobs 22 Safeguarding Policy.
- Ensure your Senior Health Coach or Head of Health and Wellbeing is aware of any risk issues which have been escalated with regard to Safeguarding.

**Stakeholder Manag