Healthier Me Coach - Sutton, Kingston upon Thames and Merton in Liverpool

Are you passionate about health and wellbeing? Do you want to support people with a learning disability to improve their health and wellbeing? Do you want to be part of real, lasting change in your area (Sutton, Kingston Upon Thames and Merton)? If your answers are 'YES', please keep reading!

The Healthier Me Coach is key to the delivery of our exciting new Omaze funded activity. This is a part-time, fixed-term position of 22.5 hours per week, ending in December 2027. The working days are Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. A valid driving license and access to a vehicle are essential for this role.

In our new programme called "Healthier Me" we want to:

• Improve health outcomes for people with a learning disability.
• Empower people we support and our staff teams to have better tools when it comes to health and wellbeing.
• Make community health offerings more accessible for people with a learning disability.

You will be working within a team of Healthier Me Coaches across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Healthier Me Coach will work both independently and collaboratively.

In the Healthier Me Coach role, you will support people with a learning disability to improve their understanding of, and access to, health and wellbeing. A key part of this work will be to support around 100 people with a learning disability to set and achieve personal health goals over 2 years. You will do this through 1:1 coaching, delivering workshops and signposting, amongst other things. The post holder will be responsible for supporting individual progression and connecting the people Mencap supports with each other and appropriate opportunities in the community.

In addition to this, you will be managing at least one ‘Healthier Me Champion’. The Champion role is for people with a learning disability, and it will strengthen the delivery of this work. This role involves working with a range of stakeholders to promote healthy living and to improve understanding of the barriers to health faced by people with a learning disability. Stakeholders will include:

• Local staff in Mencap services
• Community organisations
• Local health teams
• Families and Carers
• Internal Mencap teams

We want the Healthier Me Coach to use a community-led approach, giving people we support and the wider community opportunities to contribute and be part of local solutions. The coach will establish strong working relationships that enable Mencap to secure positive outcomes for people with a learning disability. The Healthier Me Coach will work closely with the Programme Manager to ensure good monitoring processes are followed to reach set targets and goals. You will support with monitoring progression, collecting and inputting data.

You will model our 5 values - Positive, Kind, Inclusive, Brave and Passionate.

Key Responsibilities

• Line management of colleagues with a learning disability – Healthier Me Champions.
• Effectively manage a caseload of individuals, supporting them to set and achieve personalised health goals.
• Ensure that all contractual outcomes linked to your caseload are achieved, captured and documented.
• Deliver workshops and training to Mencap teams, people with a learning disability and community members.
• Implement community-led ways of working and co-production in approach to work.
• Provide signposting, support and tools to individuals, carers and support staff.
• Take responsibility for own professional development, and where needed use feedback to continually improve own performance.
• Develop relationships with stakeholders and gather feedback.
• Complete reporting required for internal and external monitoring, accurately and on time.
• Generate community opportunities with local organisations (e.g. allotment, leisure centre, social groups).
• Highlight and report any practice issues or safety concerns to secure support and improvement in line with organisational policies.

The successful candidate will:

• Be passionate about making health and wellbeing accessible.
• Have excellent communication and relationship building skills.
• Demonstrate enthusiasm and flexibility for the team and its work.
• Demonstrate an understanding of community-led ways of working.
• Demonstrate an understanding of a duty of care to the individuals supported.
• Understand responsibility for Prevent, safeguarding and critical incident reporting in accordance with both internal and external procedures.
• Demonstrate an interest and commitment to the broader work of Mencap by attending meetings as required to support collaboration.
• Live Mencap's values - Inclusive, Brave, Positive, Kind and Passionate.

Skills & abilities

• Professional conduct and relationships
• Effective communicator
• Effective record keeping and reporting
• Building positive relationships/partnerships
• Working to targets
• Managing and developing team members
• Excellent team working skills
• Hold a driving licence and access to a vehicle

Knowledge and experience

• Experience of supporting people
• Experience of delivering against targets
• Experience of coaching
• Experience of delivering training
• Experience of risk management
• Experience of caseload review
• Experience of gathering stakeholder feedback
• Experience of community led ways of working
• Knowledge of sector
• Knowledge of safe working practices

Applications close on Friday 26th January. Interviews will be held on Wednesday 4th February, via Microsoft Teams. If you’re passionate about making a difference, please review the job description for full details, and if you meet the criteria, we encourage you to apply!

Here at Mencap, we offer an impressive range of benefits designed to support and reward our employees to ensure that our teams feel valued and appreciated. Our benefits package offers 32 days of paid holiday (including bank holidays, pro rata), along with a range of perks such as discounts at leading high-street retailers, access to health cash plans, interest‑free loans, and many more exciting offerings.

For more details on what we have to offer, please see the attached document outlining all the fantastic benefits available to you as a member of our team!

About Mencap

Our vision is for the UK to be the best place in the world for people with a learning disability to live happy and healthy lives. We're here to support people with a learning disability, their families and their carers. We fight for a kinder, fairer and more inclusive society for people with a learning disability to live in.

At Mencap, everyone works with people with a learning disability either providing support or advice, or alongside one another as colleagues. Belonging at Mencap is for everyone, every day, everywhere.

• Everyone is expected to treat people well and make Mencap an inclusive organisation.
• Every day we grow and learn. It’s okay to make mistakes but we learn from them and make changes.
• Everywhere people will feel respected, valued, and safe to be themselves.

We have Belonging network groups that meet online and are open to all colleagues. The groups include people who identify as Black and Asian, LGBTQIA+, disabled or with a long-term health condition, women, parents and carers, and their allies.

We want to encourage everyone to apply to work at Mencap and we offer a variety of different contract types and working patterns. We’re not looking for specific experience. It is your personality and values that will make you a great colleague. We will train and develop you to succeed in the role you’re applying for.