Health Coach

Working within the Service Delivery Team as a Health Coach within the Weight Management Interface Hub, you will support adults and families who are overweight or obese to achieve sustainable lifestyle change through person‑centred, weight management programmes. Drawing on your experience of helping individuals with lifestyle modification, you will deliver nutrition, physical activity and behaviour change interventions through group, one‑to‑one, community and digital formats.

You will build strong relationships with diverse communities across Leeds, monitor service user progress using SMART goals, and work collaboratively with partners to reduce health inequalities and improve long‑term health outcomes

Working as a Health Coach you will be working with adults and/or families to support, motivate and advise those who are currently overweight or obese.

Leeds GP Confederation is a collective of GP practices working together to deliver high‑quality, patient‑centred primary care across the city. By collaborating, we share resources, expertise, and innovation to improve services for our communities. Our mission is to support general practice, strengthen local healthcare, and ensure every patient in Leeds receives the right care, at the right time, from the right people.

TITLE: Health Coach

DEPARTMENT Service Delivery - Weight Management Interface Hub

LOCATION: White Rose Office Park

HOURS OF WORK:
Up to 37.5 hours a week

NATURE OF

CONTRACT:

Fixed term 1 year

ACCOUNTABLE TO: Service Delivery & Relationship Manager

ROLE SUMMARY

Working within the Service Delivery Team as a Health Coach within the Weight Management Interface Hub, you will support adults and families who are overweight or obeseto achieve sustainable lifestyle change through person‑centred, weight management programmes. Drawing on your experience of helping individuals with lifestyle modification, you will deliver nutrition, physical activity and behaviour change interventions through group, one‑to‑one, community and digital formats. You will build strong relationships with diverse communities across

Leeds, monitor service user progress using SMART goals, and work collaboratively with partners to reduce health inequalities and improve long‑term health outcomes

MAIN DUTIES

Working as a Health Coach you will beworking with adults and/or families to support, motivate and advise those whoare currently overweight or obese.

You will be passionate about working with individuals to begin the life‑changing processes necessary for permanent and continued weight loss and weight maintenance.

You will understand challenges and barriers that adults face with relation to their health (both physical andmental) and wellbeing. You will engage with and build a good rapport with adults from varying communities across Leeds.

You will deliver our programmes ofweight management as well as supporting the development of new nutrition andexercise programmes that meet the needs of our service users.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about promoting healthy lifestyles and delivering motivational change which is person centered.

You will have a background in health coaching, nutrition, exercise, public health, community health or adult and/orfamily weight management and be an excellent team player and have a willingness to learn and develop.

Duties and Responsibilities will include;

Service Delivery

Being part of a wider team that will deliver our adult weight management programme including nutrition, behaviour change andexercise delivery to groups and though one‑to‑ones, in the community and through digital methods such as video and telephone consultations.

Deliver evidence‑based education around nutrition, physical activity and behavioural change

Deliver programmes with a person centered approach using skills of positive psychology and motivational interviewing

Monitor service user progress through regular consultation and identifying specific goals for success

Working with individuals and groups using SMART goal setting

Keep detailed consultation notes,recording data accurately, ensuring all forms and other documentation is completed correctly

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