Senior Child and Family Lifestyles CoachinHarlowinHarlowPUBLISHED MON 21 OCT 2024

To engage with CYP and their families in the community and improve their lifestyle and self-management capacity.

Develop and oversee the healthy lifestyles sessions and interventions being offered in family hubs and delivery sites across Essex.

Apply behaviour change techniques to support complex family lifestyle changes.

Undertake a full assessment of a family and their unique lifestyle in order to build the family a bespoke support package.

Provide evidence based information about a key public health agenda.

Social prescribe to other services that will enhance and sustain the outcome of the interventions.

• Develop and oversee the schedule for sessions run in family hubs, delivery sites and the community pan Essex that meet the healthy lifestyles agenda.

• Link with key partners and colleagues within HCRG Care Group BU14.

• Work with complex families needing additional guidance on healthy lifestyles.

• Provide evidence based information about a key public health agenda.

• Create content for service website and newsletters.

• Co-ordinate post intervention events e.g. family walks.

• Social prescribe to other service that will enhance and sustain the outcome of the interventions

• To work autonomous on complex cases

• Contribute to and work as part of a team

• To support existing services and develop new local approaches the meet the needs of client in the target group

• Will provide training for volunteers and partners in area of expertise

• Provide supervision and support for Wellbeing Practitioners and support them to access more specialist resources where necessary

• Participate in MDTs with partner organisations

• Support the Locality co-ordinator with allocations and locality caseload management where directed

• Deputise for the Locality co-ordinator as directed by the Locality Lead during periods of absence or surge

• Undertake any other delegated work

• Any other function commensurate with competencies and job role

Please see attached job description for a full list of responsibilities

About us

As aSenior Child and Family Lifestyles Coach, you will be part of our valued team at HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including-

• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards- with a number of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

The Ideal Candidate

• Relevant Foundation degree in health and social care or community development or Relevant Diploma plus relevant experience health improvement and community development
• Making Every Contact Count training or willingness to undertake it
• Clear understanding of barriers to make lifestyle changes and how to support people with mental health issue e.g. coming from deprived backgrounds
• Experience of multi-agency working
• Group facilitation skills
• Ability to support complex behaviour change by applying behaviour change techniques.
• Ability to interpret individual client data for optimal intervention planning
• Knowledge of models and approaches of behaviour change
• Knowledge of the models and principles of health promotion and their application.
• Must be IT literate with experience of all Microsoft Office applications

The Post holder be required to work from multiple sites within the locality as well as working from home. Driving licence & access to a car is essential.

Flexible working within the operating hours of the service, which will include evenings and weekends

Please see attached Job Description for full Personal Specification.