Nutritionist

Maximus is a global organisation that specialises in providing health and employment services to millions of people every year. Here in the UK we employ around 5,000 people across the country to deliver services that have a profound impact on people\’s lives. From assessments and health services to employability programmes and specialist support, we do work that matters with people who care.

Salary paying up to £28,800 per annum25 days holidays + bank holidays9% combined pension contribution

About the role:We have an exciting full time opportunity for you to become our Specialist Health & Wellbeing Coach (Nutritionist).

Although the role is home-based you will need you to drive and have your own transport as you will be going into communities covering face to face delivery across Hertfordshire. This role does involve supporting families so experience of working with children/young people is advantageous as you will be delivering on our Youth and 1:1 services. The role will also involve working at least 2-3 evenings a week with the latest delivery being until 19:30.

The Specialist Health & Wellbeing Coach provides individually tailored diet, nutrition, and behaviour change advice to service users / participants (adults and/or children, young people, and families) to manage their weight and make sustainable changes to improve their overall health and wellbeing.

As a Specialist Health & Wellbeing Coach you will provide evidence-based dietary and behaviour change services via one-to-one and group-based service deliver and ensure operational safety of weight management group programmes. As part of this you will support your caseload to implement experiments, track behaviours, utilise tech enabled support, make best use of resources, support each other, explore / use wider community provision and achieve their outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:To provide medium and high need nutritional and behaviour change services for eligible participants, empowering children, families, and adults to manage their weight and lifestyle-behaviours effectively and support service users / participants in achieving their own self-identified health and wellbeing goals.

Depending on the needs or the participant/s, they will experience either virtual or face-to‐face health coaching group delivery sessions in the community, including but not limited to:

Supporting the recruitment of individuals to the interventionsSupport our triage and assessment processAgenda setting with clientsLifestyle behaviour change support to move more, achieve a healthy weight/dietProblem solving with adaptability to individual contextMotivational interviewingSignposting to other services if required (e.g., stop smoking, reduce alcohol consumption levels)

Delivery group weight management that is underpinned by behaviour change methodology and empowers service users / participants to manage their weight and lifestyle‐behaviours effectively achieving their own self‐identified health and wellbeing goals, ensuring information, advice and guidance is:

EngagingAge‐appropriateInformativeAccurateEvidence‐basedCulturally relevantFunResourcefulTransferable and applicable to attendees every‐day life (experimentation)HolisticSupportive of wider lifestyle related healthy lifestyles and habits

What we are looking for:AFN registered degree in Nutrition or HCPC registered degree in dietetics with portfolio evidence of continuous professional developmentExperience in delivering group‐based behaviour change interventions to child, families or adults. Evidence of supporting vulnerable individuals through a change processExperience of caseload management demonstrated via the use of a Case Management SystemExperience of lesson planning and nutritional / weight management content creationExperience of inputting and processing data where accuracy, targets and time deadlines are operating in the workplaceEvidence of continuous professional development to ensure the

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