Nutritionist

Description & Requirements

We have an exciting full time opportunity for you to become our Specialist Health & Wellbeing Coach.

Although the role is home-based you will need you to drive and have your own transport as you will be going into communities covering face to face delivery across Hertfordshire. This role does involve supporting families so experience of working with children / young people is advantageous as you will be delivering on our Youth and 1 : 1 services. The role will also involve working at least 2-3 evenings a week with the latest delivery being until 19 : 30.

Salary - £25,700 - £28,800

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.

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 deliver 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.

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 need participants 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
• Goal setting
• Signposting to other services if required (e.g., stop smoking, reduce alcohol consumption levels)

Delivery group weight management that 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 :

To deliver services in line with quality standards, national guidance and within own competencies. If a situation is beyond the skillset of the post-holder, then they should identify when further work with a client is inappropriate and escalate appropriately or signpost to other services (e.g. tier 3 weight management).

Support with outreach community engagement work inclusive, but not limited to :

Work in line with business and contract performance requirements including :

To ensure accurate reporting and data collection in line with contractual and case management system requirements to ensure :

Note : This is not an exhaustive list. The Specialist Health & Wellbeing Coach is expected to carry out all other duties as may be reasonably required.

Salary : Non-London £25700 - £28800

London £28300 - £31300

Qualifications & Experience

Essential

Individual Competencies

Essential

Excellent internal and external stakeholder engagement and management

Good understanding of principles of confidentiality and safeguarding

A strong track record of interpersonal relationships including the ability to build, develop and maintain relationships

Effective caseload management inclusive of accurate data collection, data entry, timely recording, and delivery against agreed Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

Confident in the use of evolving digital technologies to support people through behaviour change processes. The ability to manage time independently and effectively and work to deadlines

Effective safe and sensitive data management in line with information security standards

Excellent Microsoft Office skills and ability to learn quickly when using news systems and processes

Commitment to personal development and training

Commitment to flexible working (including evenings and weekends), ensuring the service is available to all residents including, those who work during the day, shift workers and those with children of school age

Commitment to supporting overall team / contract performance to the highest standards, undertaking a range of duties in line with business requirements

Desirable

Key Business Priorities

Internal

External

EEO Statement

Maximus is committed to developing, maintaining and supporting a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion throughout the recruitment process. We know that feeling included has a dramatic impact on personal wellbeing and are working to ensure that no job applicant receives less favourable treatment due to any personal characteristic. Advertisements for posts will include sufficiently clear and accurate information to enable potential applicants to assess their own suitability for the post.

We are a Disability Confident Leader, thanks to our commitment to the recruitment, retention and career development of people with disabilities and long term conditions. The Disability Confident scheme includes a guaranteed interview for any applicant with a disability who meets the minimum requirements for a job. When you complete your job application you will find a question asking you if you would like to apply under the Disability Confident Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you feel that you have a disability and apply under this scheme, providing that you meet the essential criteria for the job, you will then be invited for interview. YourGuaranteed Interview application will only be shared with the hiring manager and the local resourcing team. Where reasonable, Maximus will review and consider adjustments for those applicants who express a requirement for them during the recruitment process.

Minimum Salary

25,700.00

Maximum Salary

28,800.00