Wellbeing Coach (Poole)

Join our fantastic Wellbeing team as a Health and Wellbeing Employment Coach. The aim of this role is to develop a holistic health and employment approach with customers, with Health and Wellbeing needs or Neurodiversity, to identify challenges around finding, starting and sustaining suitable employment.

Through 1:1 coaching, you’ll support customers to build self-awareness, confidence, communication skills and create a solid foundation for emotional wellbeing and ultimately work with them to secure and sustain employment. You’ll manage your own caseload of customers, so you’ll need to organise your time and record data from sessions onto the content management system.

Our ideal candidate will have experience of supporting and guiding individuals using effective action planning techniques. You’ll also have experience of delivering a range of health specific programmes or coaching. Experience of welfare to work would be advantageous however, we are open to candidates from other sectors.

In return for your dedication, knowledge, and commitment, we’re offering a competitive salary range £26,000 to £29,545 p.a. (dependent on experience) with these great benefits:

• 25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays + Birthday Day off (with the opportunity to buy additional days)
• Company Pension Scheme - 5% Employee 5% Employer
• Employer Paid Healthcare Cash Plan, incl. 3 x salary life assurance
• Annual Pay Review
• Enhanced Maternity/Adoption and Paternity Pay Arrangements
• Free access to BenefitHub – an online portal with access to a wide range of retail discounts, Life Assurance, Cycle to Work Scheme, Tax Saver Commuter Tickets
• Refer a Friend Scheme

Location: Poole
Hours: 37 hours a week. Monday to Thursday 8.30 am to 5pm, Friday 8.30 am to 4.30pm

Key Responsibilities

• Excellent people person with very competent communication skills
• Confident to organise and conduct job-search
• Identify any potential barriers to employment.
• Ensuring all paper-based employability tools such as covering letters, CV’s, speculative letters are in place.
• Consistently deliver performance outputs against agreed targets and contractual requirements.
• Using knowledge in health and well-being, as well as understanding conditions in order to enable a return to sustainable employment.
• Perform health specific assessments with customers to identify health challenges around finding, starting and sustaining suitable employment.
• Provide health advice using expertise and judgement, encouraging customers to address health specific barriers to work.
• Identifying evidence-based interventions to support the achievement of job goals that are suited to the customers mental and physical health needs, promoting the value of work for health & well-being, helping to build confidence and the practical and emotional skills to adapt to a working routine.

Skills and Experience

• Experience of working in health promotion or public health
• Knowledge of the local labor market in the specified geographical area
• Supported those with health issues back to work/ vocational rehabilitation / occupational health.
• Presented and delivered health or wellbeing related group interventions, facilitating workshops or training sessions through digital technology.
• Built rapport with a diverse range of customers and stakeholders using your coaching skills and knowledge of local community support areas.
• Fully IT literate in using a range of Microsoft Office programmes
• Experience of delivering services to meet contractual and quality standards
• Desirable a qualified health professional registered with Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC), British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP), or British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP)
• Knowledge and experience of the employability sector and local labour market
• Experience of working with people in the provision of ‘information, advice & guidance’

Pluss is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share and uphold this commitment in conjunction with the requirements of the Prevent Duty and the positive promotion of modern British values. Dependent on the role applying to you may be required to process a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS/DS) check. Pluss is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.