Senior Child and Family Lifestyles Coach

To engage with CYP and their families in the community and improve their lifestyle and self-management capacity.

Develop and oversee the healthy lifestyles sessions and interventions being offered in family hubs and delivery sites across Essex.

Apply behaviour change techniques to support complex family lifestyle changes.

Undertake a full assessment of a family and their unique lifestyle in order to build the family a bespoke support package., Social prescribe to other services that will enhance and sustain the outcome of the interventions.
Package DescriptionAs a Senior Child 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 £25,200 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 life's 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're 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

Main Responsibilities

Develop and oversee the schedule for sessions run in family hubs, delivery sites and the community pan Essex that meet the healthy lifestyles agenda.

Link with key partners and colleagues within HCRG Care Group BU14.

Work with complex families needing additional guidance on healthy lifestyles.

Provide evidence based information about a key public health agenda.

Create content for service website and newsletters.

Co-ordinate post intervention events e.g. family walks.

Social prescribe to other service that will enhance and sustain the outcome of the interventions

To work autonomous on complex cases

Contribute to and work as part of a team

To support existing services and develop new local approaches the meet the needs of client in the target group

Will provide training for volunteers and partners in area of expertise

Provide supervision and support for Wellbeing Practitioners and support them to access more specialist resources where necessary

Participate in MDTs with partner organisations

Support the Locality co-ordinator with allocations and locality caseload management where directed

Deputise for the Locality co-ordinator as directed by the Locality Lead during periods of absence or surge

Undertake any other delegated work

Relevant Foundation degree in health and social care or community development, Relevant Diploma plus relevant experience health improvement and community development
Making Every Contact Count training or willingness to undertake it
Clear understanding of barriers to make lifestyle changes and how to support people with mental health issue e.g. coming from deprived backgrounds
Experience of multi-agency working
Group facilitation skills
Ability to support complex behaviour change by applying behaviour change techniques.
Ability to interpret individual client data for optimal intervention planning
Knowledge of models and approaches of behaviour change
Knowledge of the models and principles of health promotion and their application.
Must be IT literate with experience of all Microsoft Office applications

The Post holder be required to work from multiple sites within the locality as well as working from home. Driving licence & access to a car is essential.

Flexible working within the operating hours of the service, which will include evenings and weekends

About The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's 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.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're 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 doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.