Health Coach

Devon, Exeter

Permanent, full time (37.5 hpw)

Salary £24, 664 per annum, plus great benefits including Health Cash Plan!

Home, a place where you belong.

Are you passionate about promoting positive healthy choices? Keen to empower others to join the health revolution? Then you’ll thrive in our team as a Health Coach coaching our customers on healthy lifestyles! You’ll be a key part in making a big difference each day as you help our customers achieve their hopes and aspirations. How amazing is that!

We have a fabulous opportunity for you to join our awesome team. You will be working as part of a team with two other Health Coaches alongside Support Coordinators, Senior Client Services Managers, and a Mental Health Practice Lead, delivering person-centred mental health recovery support and encouraging independence.

Our customers live in shared houses of up to 5 people across Exeter and Torbay.

Typical day as a Health Coach

• You’ll transform lives by coaching customers as part of a multi-disciplinary team alongside our support and care colleagues as well as with external partner organisations.
• Coaching our customers who are experiencing mental health issues to take control and ownership of their health.
• You’ll carry out assessments and create individual health plans to enable our customers to adopt healthy behaviours. Focusing on what is strong, not what’s wrong.
• Deliver interventions to support customers to achieve their health goals identified in their plan.
• You’ll be a change maker there to motivate others to kick their unwanted habits and activate personalised healthy lifestyles!

Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You’ll do that here, working for one of the Top Ten Great Place to Work in the UK!

You bring

• Experience working in the community supporting and coaching people, ideally with their health
• You have a genuine passion to support our services in delivering aspirational person-centred housing related support
• Your knowledge of the inequalities and barriers that impact on health and wellbeing
• You’ll need to bring your people powers in motivating and supporting others, with your ability to deal with conflict and challenging behaviour
• If you have an NVQ in Health and Social Care, Health Trainer and/or Coaching qualification then that will be the cherry on top!
• You’ll need to travel around to spend time with your customers, you can do this role using public transport or if you drive, you’ll need a vehicle insured for business purposes. The great news is that we’ll pay your mileage between site visits!

Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to external candidates for this role. This remains under regular review.

Our Team

Our fabulous team are super passionate about supporting customers to reach their goals and celebrating their achievements. To us were not just a team we’re a ‘work family’. There are 45 in the team, and we don’t just love to support our customers, we’re there for each other too!

Job details

• You'll work Monday to Friday 09.00-17.00 in our Exeter Service.
• Although you will be lone working the customers you will have daily contact and communication with the rest of the team and we do get together for team meetings, training and often, just a cuppa.
• You’re able to use technology. We have a variety of systems we use for reporting, creating support plans, emails, Teams calls and so on
• You’ll be given the latest IT Kit, which could include a Surface Pro Tablet and Smart Phone, making it easier to complete support plans on the go.
• You’ll need an Enhanced DBS check done and we pay for that.

A place where you belong

Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!

What’s in it for you?

• 34 days annual leave (including bank hols and a “me day” to take off for whatever you fancy) increasing to 39, the option to buy 5 more and time off for volunteering too!
• Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more.
• Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.
• We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
• Colleagues really matter to us, that’s why we’re the 10^th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing. Our tools and support help you when you need them.
• Learn more about our benefits on our website.

Find out more

Click APPLY NOW to see our Health Coach Job Description, find out about us and for help to apply. Sometimes we close a job early, so don’t delay or you might miss out.

Finally, do let us know if there’s anything we can do, to help you shine in our process at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk