Senior Coach

Do you want to lead a team that makes a real difference to the health and wellbeing of people in the local community?

Are you an experienced healthy lifestyle professional who can coach colleagues, oversee quality and performance, and continue supporting residents to make lasting changes?

We are looking for a passionate and driven Senior Healthy Lifestyle Coach to join our Reading and West Berkshire service leadership team. You will lead, support and mentor Healthy Lifestyle Advisors while helping to deliver personalised, evidence-based behaviour change support in community, place-based and digital settings across both local authority areas.

The Reading and West Berkshire Integrated Healthy Lifestyle Service is a brand-new
, whole-system, place-based service supporting residents to make positive, sustained changes to their health and wellbeing. It brings together smoking cessation, healthy weight, physical activity, alcohol brief interventions and mental wellbeing signposting through one integrated pathway, delivered in community settings, workplaces, trusted partner venues and digitally.

As Senior Healthy Lifestyle Coach, you will support the Healthy Lifestyle Service Operations Manager with quality delivery, service development, performance and evidence-based practice. You will provide day-to-day line management, supervision, coaching and professional support to Healthy Lifestyle Advisors, helping colleagues manage caseloads, maintain high-quality records, work safely and deliver consistently against agreed standards and KPIs.

Alongside your leadership responsibilities, you will retain a mixed caseload, complete holistic lifestyle assessments and deliver tailored support across smoking cessation, weight management, physical activity, alcohol brief advice and wider wellbeing goals. You will use COM-B-informed behaviour change, motivational interviewing, strengths-based coaching and culturally competent practice to help residents build confidence and sustain change.

This is a genuinely community-based role. You will deliver support in settings such as GP practices, community pharmacies, Family Hubs, libraries, leisure venues, workplaces, voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise organisations, community hubs and outreach events, as well as by telephone and digitally.

This role will also support with place-based engagement activities where required to support the promotion of the services and bring further clients into service.

You will monitor team activity, quality and performance, support induction and competency development, and take timely action where improvement is needed. You will also strengthen referral pathways and partnerships across Reading and West Berkshire, with a particular focus on accessible, culturally competent support for communities experiencing health inequalities.

We are looking for a confident, supportive leader who can set clear expectations, give constructive feedback and enable others to perform at their best, while remaining passionate about delivering high-quality, person-centred support to residents.

The role will combine work from a local office base, community venues and co-location sites across Reading and West Berkshire, with some home working to support digital delivery.

This is a Full-time role. Hours to be covered are Monday – Sunday within the hours of 8am – 8pm. Flexible hours are required to meet the needs of the service including evening/weekend work.

Where this is not required your core hours will be between Monday and Friday 08:30am and 5pm.

You must be able to travel independently across Reading and West Berkshire, including to community venues and outreach locations. Access to a car is desirable where public transport does not meet…