Health and Wellbeing Coach

The Role: What you will do?
**The Role**:
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Health and Wellbeing Team in the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire region.

As a Health and Wellbeing Coach you will:

- Independently run health & wellbeing workshops/classes in a group and virtual setting to NHS service users experiencing mental wellbeing difficulties, who may also experience long term health conditions.
- Independently conduct health & lifestyle assessments and 1-1 sessions via telephone and/or face to face. The Healthy Living Healthy Minds programme aims to help improve service user’s wellbeing by focussing on improving lifestyle factors. Thus, in-depth coaching sessions are important to address the causes and barriers to improving lifestyle.
- Contribute to the Healthy Living Healthy Minds programme development and assisting in producing digital materials for service users

**Skills and Experience**:
Essential:
Recognised qualification in exercise instruction (such as Level 3 Diploma in Personal Training).
- Experience of delivering face-to-face or virtual exercise classes
- Experience of working individually and within a team
- Ability to encourage behavioural changes, and design individualised health & wellbeing plans
- Sound health and wellbeing knowledge including exercise and nutrition
- Experience of working with people experiencing mental wellbeing difficulties
- Basic knowledge of the IAPT NHS mental health service
- Good IT skills, including Microsoft Office
- Adept in time management and prioritisation
- Friendly and approachable with excellent written and verbal communication skills
- An awareness of and commitment to supporting and facilitating diversity and inclusion
- Willingness to travel, which may include overnight stays on occasion, as and when required
- Willingness to undertake occasional evening or weekend work when required

Desirable:

- Prior NHS or healthcare setting experience
- Certificate / diploma in behavioural change, personal coaching, or motivational interviewing
- Level 3 Exercise Referral
- Recognized qualification in exercise class instruction

**Why Vita Health Group?**:
Vita Health Group celebrates life. Improving lives physically and mentally drives everything we do.

We are physical and mental health specialists with over 30 years of experience. We work in partnership with the NHS, support the UK’s largest corporate companies to help assist their workforce and provide a full range of physiotherapy services to private customers.

To achieve our mission of **making people better**, we recognise the importance of investing in our staff. In addition to a competitive salary, we also offer the opportunity of a flexible work life balance and a comprehensive benefits package which you can view in full on our website. To progress your skills and enable career development we provide Continued Professional Development opportunities including apprenticeships, secondments, management training, a mentoring scheme and regular events and webinars across a range of clinical disciplines.

We are committed to equitably support the wellbeing of all employees as demonstrated by:

- Our association with the MINDFUL EMPLOYER Charter for Employers who are Positive About Mental Health.
- Our status as a Menopause Friendly Committed employer.
- Our sign up to the Employer with Heart Charter
- Our commitment to meet the standards outlined in the NHS Equality Delivery System (EDS2), Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) and Workforce Disability Equality Standard (WDES).
- The provision of access to health and wellbeing services for colleagues which includes a team of trained Mental Health Advocates and an Employee Assistance Programme.
- An embedded “speaking up” culture facilitated by Freedom to Speak Up Guardians.