Healthy Beginnings Specialist Coach; Pregnancy and Early Parenthood

Commissioned by Gloucestershire County Council, the Gloucestershire Healthy Lifestyle Service provides evidence-based support to help residents stop smoking, achieve a healthy weight, become more active, reduce alcohol consumption, and improve wellbeing. Alongside these core services, the Healthy Beginnings programme provides specialist support for families during pregnancy and early parenthood.

Healthy Beginnings is a specialist public health programme supporting families from pregnancy until a child's second birthday. The programme recognises that pregnancy and the first two years of life provide a unique opportunity to improve lifelong health outcomes for both parents and children. Through evidence-based health coaching and behaviour change support, Healthy Beginnings empowers families to make informed, sustainable lifestyle choices.

As a Healthy Beginnings Practitioner, you will deliver predominantly remote health coaching through telephone and video appointments, alongside face-to-face sessions, supporting people and families throughout their Healthy Beginnings journey. You will manage a caseload, provide personalised support across smoking cessation, healthy weight, nutrition, physical activity and postnatal healthy lifestyles, and use motivational interviewing and behaviour change techniques to support sustainable outcomes.

You will build positive, person-centred relationships, maintain regular contact and respond appropriately to safeguarding concerns. You will work closely with maternity services, Family Hubs, health visitors, primary care and community partners to promote the service and strengthen referrals. You will maintain accurate records, contribute to audits, reporting and continuous improvement, and represent ABL Health professionally. The role requires independent working, flexibility to travel across Gloucestershire, occasional evening/weekend work, and a full driving licence with access to your own vehicle.

ABL Health Ltd is a dynamic, fast-growing community health organisation with an ambitious vision to create healthier lives and stronger communities. As an experienced, CQC-registered provider of community health and wellbeing services, we are proud to deliver evidence-based, innovative and person-centred care that makes a real and lasting difference.

We work in partnership with individuals, communities and system partners to design and deliver services that are locally rooted, strengths-based and responsive to need. Everything we do is driven by a commitment to reducing health inequalities, improving outcomes and ensuring people have access to the right support at the right time.