Part-time 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.

We have 3 exciting full-time opportunities for you to become our Specialist Health & Wellbeing Coach (Nutritionist). Although the role is home-based, you will need to drive and have your own transport as you will be going into communities covering face-to-face delivery across Oxfordshire. This role does involve supporting families and adults, so experience of working with children/young people is advantageous. The role will also involve working at least 2-3 evenings a week.

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 delivery and ensure operational safety of weight management group programmes. 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.

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 of 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:

• 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:

• AFN registered degree in Nutrition or HCPC registered degree in dietetics with portfolio evidence of continuous professional development.
• Experience in delivering group-based behaviour change interventions to children, families, or adults.
• Experience of lesson planning and nutritional/weight management content creation.
• Experience of inputting and processing data where accuracy, targets, and time deadlines are operating in the workplace.
• Evidence of continuous professional development to ensure the delivery of the most recent and up-to-date health coaching provision to the correct quality standard.
• Experience of working in a health, community, or social care environment or good understanding of the issues around maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
• A health coaching qualification or an accredited health coaching skills programme is desirable.
• Experience of direct health coaching delivery is desirable.
• Experience in smoking cessation, physical activity, NHS Health Checks, weight management, alcohol reduction is desirable.
• Evidence of working with individuals with long-term health conditions is desirable.

Maximus is committed to developing, maintaining, and supporting a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout the recruitment process. We know that feeling included has a dramatic impact on personal wellbeing and are working to ensure that no job applicant receives less favourable treatment due to any personal characteristic. We are a Disability Confident Leader, thanks to our commitment to the recruitment, retention, and career development of people with disabilities and long-term conditions.

The Disability Confident scheme includes a guaranteed interview for any applicant with a disability who meets the minimum requirements for a job. When you complete your job application, you will find a question asking you if you would like to apply under the Disability Confident Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you feel that you have a disability and apply under this scheme, providing that you meet the essential criteria for the job, you will then be invited for an interview. Your Guaranteed Interview application will only be shared with the hiring manager and the local resourcing team.