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.
Package DescriptionAs a 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 £22,369 with Group Pension
Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
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
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 family or 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.
The Ideal Candidate
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.
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.
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