About the Role
Reed Wellbeing is seeking a Self-Employed Health & Wellbeing Coach to deliver lifestyle and wellbeing programmes that help people improve their health. This role involves engaging and delivering sessions in group and/or one-to-one settings.
Responsibilities
- Deliver engaging NHS Healthier You Programme sessions to participants in a group and/or one-to-one setting, in accordance with curriculum, resources, and quality standards.
- Motivate, support, and empower participants to make sustainable lifestyle and behaviour changes using evidence-based coaching techniques.
- Adapt session delivery to meet diverse needs, abilities, and learning styles, creating a positive and inclusive environment.
- Monitor participant progress, conduct regular reviews, and celebrate achievements while identifying additional support needs.
- Signpost participants to appropriate local health, wellbeing, and lifestyle support services.
- Participate in training, professional development, and quality improvement activities.
- Contribute ideas and feedback to support continuous improvement of programme delivery and participant outcomes.
Requirements
- Minimum Level 3 qualification in Exercise Referral, Health Improvement/Promotion/Public Health, Nutrition & Weight Management, Coaching & Behaviour Change, or Education & Training.
- Evidence of training, qualification, or assessed competence in behaviour change delivery, aligned with recognised frameworks (e.g. COM‑B, Behaviour Change Wheel, motivational interviewing or health coaching approaches).
- Fully First Aid trained, with a valid certificate.
- Experience facilitating groups and supporting individuals to achieve positive health, lifestyle, or behaviour changes.
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills, with a person-centred and non-judgemental approach.
- Ability to engage and motivate people from diverse backgrounds and with varying levels of confidence and health literacy.
- Demonstrable IT skills, including the ability to confidently use digital platforms and systems.
- Willingness to participate in induction, supervision, observed practice, competency assessment and ongoing CPD including all mandatory core training.
- Flexibility to work evenings and weekends, as required.
- Ability to travel throughout the designated region using your own vehicle.
- Access to own vehicle and hold a full UK driving licence.
- Experience delivering behaviour change programmes aligned with NHS‑commissioned or public health services (Desirable).
- Experience working with individuals and/or groups with additional needs, long-term health conditions, obesity, or pre-diabetes (Desirable).
- Fluency in multiple languages (Desirable).
- Experience supporting service users via digital or remote delivery platforms (Desirable).
- Qualification in group-based delivery (Desirable).
- Level 3 Qualification in British Sign Language (Desirable).
Skills
- Coaching
- Behaviour Change
- Communication
- Relationship-building
- Person-centred approach
- Non-judgemental approach
- IT skills
- Motivational Interviewing
- Health Coaching
Location
- North East London
Work Type
- Self-Employed
- Flexible
- Part-time
Experience Level
- Experienced
Education Level
- Level 3 qualification in Exercise Referral, Health Improvement/Promotion/Public Health, Nutrition & Weight Management, Coaching & Behaviour Change, or Education & Training
- Level 3 Qualification in British Sign Language (Desirable)
Salary/Compensations
- £50 per 90-minute session
About the Company
- Reed Wellbeing is a public service provider delivering lifestyle and wellbeing programmes that help people improve their health.
- Our mission is to be the partner of choice for developing people and their communities.
Equal Opportunity
- We aim to ensure that no candidate or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity.
- We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria.
