Child and Family Lifestyles Coach
- NHS
- Full Time
- Great Bentley
- 22369.00 - 23000.00 a year
Job Description
Job summary
To engage with CYP and their families in the community and improve their lifestyle and self-management capacity.
Apply behaviour change techniques to support lifestyle changes, e.g. goals setting and confidence building to eradicate barriers and allow them to make long term, sustainable adjustments to their lifestyles.
Provide information and interventions based on evidence about a range of health issues such as healthy eating and physical activity.
Social prescribe to other services that will enhance and sustain the outcome of the interventions.
Undertake a full assessment of a family and their unique lifestyle in order to build the family a bespoke support package.
Engage with families as part of the National child measurement (NCMP) pathway and offer signposting and tailored support where required.
Engage with school aged children as part of physical activity interventions.
Main duties of the job
- Undertake family assessments and develop bespoke family centred interventions from a bank of available resources.
- Engage with families as part of the NCMP pathway and offer signposting and support where required.
- Liase with colleague across BU14 services in order to get the right support for a familyor CYP.
- To support existing services and develop new local approaches the meet the needs of client in the target group
- To follow up client during and after completion of their lifestyle change intervention and discuss further steps.
About us
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2
Job responsibilities
As aChild and Family Lifestyles Coach, you will be part of our valued team at HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including-
- Starting Salary £22,369 with Group Pension
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you are encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards- with a number of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
- The ideal candidate for this role will have a relevant Diploma or equivalent plus experience health improvement and community development MECC.
- They must have experience working with children, young people and families and have a clear understanding of behaviour change methods and evidence of applying.
- They must have relevant knowledge of health improvement/ public health and have a clear understanding of barriers to make lifestyle changes and how to support people with mental health issue e.g. coming from deprived backgrounds.
Person Specification
General Requirements
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Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
HCRG Care Group
Address
HCRG Care Group
Colchester
Essex
CO7 8NN
