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This range is provided by Maximus UK. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more. Base pay range
We are looking for people who are based in Oxfordshire as the role will also include occasional face to face community work so you need to live within a commutable distance of Oxfordshire. Be part of something great! Maximus is a global organisation that specialises in providing health and employment services to millions of people every year. Here in the UK we employ around 5,000 people across the country to deliver services that have a profound impact on people’s lives. From assessments and health services to employability programmes and specialist support, we do work that matters with people who care. Home-Based but requires travel and evening work 25 days holidays + bank holidays 9% combined pension contribution About the role: We have an exciting role to become our Specialist Health & Wellbeing Coach (Nutritionist). The Specialist Health & Wellbeing Coach provides individually tailored diet, nutrition, and behaviour change advice to service users / participants (adults and/or children, young people, and families) to manage their weight and make sustainable changes to improve their overall health and wellbeing. As a Specialist Health & Wellbeing Coach you will provide evidence-based dietary and behaviour change services via one-to-one and group-based service delivery and ensure operational safety of weight management group programmes. As part of this, you will support your caseload to implement experiments, track behaviours, utilise tech-enabled support, make best use of resources, support each other, explore/use wider community provision, and achieve their outcomes. Key Responsibilities: To provide medium and high need nutritional and behaviour change services for eligible participants, empowering children, families, and adults to manage their weight and lifestyle behaviours effectively and support service users/participants in achieving their own self-identified health and wellbeing goals. Depending on the needs of the participants, they will experience either virtual or face-to-face health coaching group delivery sessions in the community, including but not limited to: Supporting the recruitment of individuals to the interventions Support our triage and assessment process Agenda setting with clients Lifestyle behaviour change support to move more, achieve a healthy weight/diet Problem solving with adaptability to individual context Motivational interviewing Signposting to other services if required (e.g., stop smoking, reduce alcohol consumption levels) Delivery of group weight management sessions which is underpinned by behaviour change methodology and empowers service users/participants to manage their weight and lifestyle behaviours effectively, achieving their own self-identified health and wellbeing goals, ensuring information, advice, and guidance is: Engaging Age-appropriate Informative Accurate Evidence-based Culturally relevant Fun Resourceful Transferable and applicable to attendees' everyday life (experimentation) Holistic Supportive of wider lifestyle-related healthy lifestyles and habits What we are looking for: AFN registered degree in Nutrition or HCPC registered degree in dietetics with portfolio evidence of continuous professional development Experience in delivering group-based behaviour change interventions to children, families, or adults. Evidence of supporting vulnerable individuals through a change process Experience of caseload management demonstrated via the use of a Case Management System Experience of lesson planning and nutritional/weight management content creation Experience of inputting and processing data where accuracy, targets, and time deadlines are operating in the workplace Evidence of continuous professional development to ensure the delivery of the most recent and up-to-date health coaching provision to the correct quality standard Experience of working in a health, community, or social care environment or good understanding of the issues around maintaining a healthy lifestyle A health coaching qualification or an accredited health coaching skills programme is desirable Experience of direct health coaching delivery is desirable Experience in delivering behaviour change interventions for specific lifestyle-related issues (e.g., smoking cessation, physical activity, NHS Health Checks, weight management, alcohol reduction) is desirable Evidence of working with individuals with long-term health conditions is desirable Experience of supporting people with additional needs is desirable EEO Statement MAXIMUS is committed to developing, maintaining and supporting a culture of equality and diversity in employment in which our employees as well as candidates for employment are treated equitably. We understand that a diverse workforce adds to our competitive advantage; and as such, we aim to ensure that job applicants do not receive less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, race, marital status, disability, age, part-time or fixed-term contract status, sexual orientation or religion, or are disadvantaged by conditions or requirements that cannot be shown to be justifiable. Advertisements for posts will include sufficiently clear and accurate information to enable potential applicants to assess their own suitability for the post. Where reasonable, MAXIMUS will review and consider adjustments for those applicants who express a requirement for them during the recruitment process. Seniority level
Associate Employment type
Full-time Job function
Science, Health Care Provider, and Other Outsourcing and Offshoring Consulting
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This range is provided by Maximus UK. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more. Base pay range
We are looking for people who are based in Oxfordshire as the role will also include occasional face to face community work so you need to live within a commutable distance of Oxfordshire. Be part of something great! Maximus is a global organisation that specialises in providing health and employment services to millions of people every year. Here in the UK we employ around 5,000 people across the country to deliver services that have a profound impact on people’s lives. From assessments and health services to employability programmes and specialist support, we do work that matters with people who care. Home-Based but requires travel and evening work 25 days holidays + bank holidays 9% combined pension contribution About the role: We have an exciting role to become our Specialist Health & Wellbeing Coach (Nutritionist). The Specialist Health & Wellbeing Coach provides individually tailored diet, nutrition, and behaviour change advice to service users / participants (adults and/or children, young people, and families) to manage their weight and make sustainable changes to improve their overall health and wellbeing. As a Specialist Health & Wellbeing Coach you will provide evidence-based dietary and behaviour change services via one-to-one and group-based service delivery and ensure operational safety of weight management group programmes. As part of this, you will support your caseload to implement experiments, track behaviours, utilise tech-enabled support, make best use of resources, support each other, explore/use wider community provision, and achieve their outcomes. Key Responsibilities: To provide medium and high need nutritional and behaviour change services for eligible participants, empowering children, families, and adults to manage their weight and lifestyle behaviours effectively and support service users/participants in achieving their own self-identified health and wellbeing goals. Depending on the needs of the participants, they will experience either virtual or face-to-face health coaching group delivery sessions in the community, including but not limited to: Supporting the recruitment of individuals to the interventions Support our triage and assessment process Agenda setting with clients Lifestyle behaviour change support to move more, achieve a healthy weight/diet Problem solving with adaptability to individual context Motivational interviewing Signposting to other services if required (e.g., stop smoking, reduce alcohol consumption levels) Delivery of group weight management sessions which is underpinned by behaviour change methodology and empowers service users/participants to manage their weight and lifestyle behaviours effectively, achieving their own self-identified health and wellbeing goals, ensuring information, advice, and guidance is: Engaging Age-appropriate Informative Accurate Evidence-based Culturally relevant Fun Resourceful Transferable and applicable to attendees' everyday life (experimentation) Holistic Supportive of wider lifestyle-related healthy lifestyles and habits What we are looking for: AFN registered degree in Nutrition or HCPC registered degree in dietetics with portfolio evidence of continuous professional development Experience in delivering group-based behaviour change interventions to children, families, or adults. Evidence of supporting vulnerable individuals through a change process Experience of caseload management demonstrated via the use of a Case Management System Experience of lesson planning and nutritional/weight management content creation Experience of inputting and processing data where accuracy, targets, and time deadlines are operating in the workplace Evidence of continuous professional development to ensure the delivery of the most recent and up-to-date health coaching provision to the correct quality standard Experience of working in a health, community, or social care environment or good understanding of the issues around maintaining a healthy lifestyle A health coaching qualification or an accredited health coaching skills programme is desirable Experience of direct health coaching delivery is desirable Experience in delivering behaviour change interventions for specific lifestyle-related issues (e.g., smoking cessation, physical activity, NHS Health Checks, weight management, alcohol reduction) is desirable Evidence of working with individuals with long-term health conditions is desirable Experience of supporting people with additional needs is desirable EEO Statement MAXIMUS is committed to developing, maintaining and supporting a culture of equality and diversity in employment in which our employees as well as candidates for employment are treated equitably. We understand that a diverse workforce adds to our competitive advantage; and as such, we aim to ensure that job applicants do not receive less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, race, marital status, disability, age, part-time or fixed-term contract status, sexual orientation or religion, or are disadvantaged by conditions or requirements that cannot be shown to be justifiable. Advertisements for posts will include sufficiently clear and accurate information to enable potential applicants to assess their own suitability for the post. Where reasonable, MAXIMUS will review and consider adjustments for those applicants who express a requirement for them during the recruitment process. Seniority level
Associate Employment type
Full-time Job function
Science, Health Care Provider, and Other Outsourcing and Offshoring Consulting
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