Health Coach (Wellbeing Hub)

Job title: Health Coach

Hours: 37.5

Location: Havant

Salary: 26,480.64 - 27,000

Looking for a workplace that ignites your passion, values respect, encourages innovation, and embraces being dynamic? Look no further! This role offers you the opportunity to join a team that believes in empowering its colleagues to unlock their full potential with Horizon.

The Trust:

Horizon Leisure Centres is a leisure trust operating since 1997, with centres in Waterlooville, Havant and Guildford. We are passionate about health and wellbeing and are committed to making an outstanding positive impact on our customers and within our local community. Our mission is to support and inspire our local communities to live healthier and happier lives by providing affordable access to sport and leisure facilities to all.

The Role:

In this role you will be working with a variety of people from all backgrounds both in our leisure centres and within the local community to engage them in physical activity. Part of this role will be managing referrals to support people with health conditions by designing and prescribing physical activity programmes. This will involve motivational interviewing to overcome barriers and support in goal setting to achieve improved quality of life. This role will also deliver a range of activities to a variety of user groups ensuring all needs are identified, considered, and met to help increase physical activity levels in the community

Your Team

You will be part of the Community Health & Wellbeing Team, reporting into Community Health and Wellbeing Manager

Your Responsibilities

- Engage a variety of people with a focus on inactive groups to encourage and remove barriers to participation in physical activity.

- Offer advice on improving wellbeing through living a healthy lifestyle

- Deliver a variety of physical activity sessions in the community to a wide range of audiences

- Deliver personalised appointments as part of the exercise referral scheme for people with health conditions

- Maintain the safety and wellbeing of customers

- Record accurate data and report on projects progress and KPI’s

- Follow key principles within the Community Health and Wellbeing strategy to improve the health of the local community

- Utilise preventative strategies to improve the health of individuals through education and support

- Support people to overcome personal barriers when it comes to behaviour change

- Follow up and review progress against individual programmes and interventions

Your Experience

- Working with minority groups

- Delivering physical activity sessions

- Managing exercise referrals and delivering positive outcomes

- Coaching and motivational interviewing

- Working with people of all levels of ability, personalities, and backgrounds

- Leading groups of individuals and keeping individuals engaged

Your Qualifications

- Level 2 Gym Instructor (essential)

- Level 3 Exercise Referral Qualification (essential)

- Level 4 qualification in relevant fields. I.e. Cardiac rehabilitation, Cancer rehabilitation, COPD etc.

- Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) (desirable)

- MECC training (desirable)

- ESCAPE-Pain Training (desirable)

- INWA Nordic Walking Instructor (desirable)

Your Competencies & Skills

- Good knowledge and understanding of mental health and how it can impact people

- Good knowledge of the key principles affecting health and wellbeing

- Self-motivated, driven and able to use own initiative

- Good communication and interpersonal skills with an understanding of how to interact with different personalities abilities and needs

- Good time management and organisational skills

- Good teamworking skills and the ability to lead and motivate individuals

- Business acumen, creative thinking and problem-solving

- Energy and resilience

- Flexibility and multi-tasking skills

- Computer literate with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook

- A customer-focused, approachable and outgoing personality

- Be able to manage conflict and negotiate successful outcomes

What you can expect from us:

- A comprehensive induction and training programme; you don’t need to have worked in the leisure industry before. We will teach you all you need to know!
- Support from the wider team who have a great deal of combined knowledge and experience and who are eager to help you succeed!
- Variety; no two days is the same!
- An environment that encourages innovation and free thinking, surrounded by really dynamic, empowered individuals.

Benefits:

- Free access to our award-winning gym’s and exercise classes for you and a +1
- Employee discounts and wellbeing platform
- Healthcare Cash plan
- Free 24/7 access to GPs using our SmartHealth plan
- Employee Assistance Programme - support for when you need it most
- 23 days annual leave + 8 days bank holiday
- Internal recognition schemes
- Opportunities for training, development and progression
- Free onsite parking - subject to availability
- Hybrid and family friendly policies
- Generous company sick pay scheme
- Employee referral scheme
- Company pension scheme
- Death in service benefit
- And much more....

This role will be based at Havant but will be expected to travel to other company site as the need requires.

Interview Process:

The recruiting manager will review your CV and if shortlisted, you will be invited to a formal interview/assessment process where we will evaluate your suitability for the role.

The successful candidate will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check.

There may be times when due to the volume of applicants to need to close a vacancy early to avoid disappointment, be sure to get your application in as soon as possible!

If you are a recruitment agency, please note we operate a PSL and do not take cold calls.