Live Well Health Coach - Community Connections

You will be one of our motivated Health Coaches, providing one to one support for people in Swindon with one or more long term health conditions. You will be delivering a specific project which supports communities where people are seldom heard. Through building relationships, you will build trust and support people to work with services that can provide preventative interventions and provide opportunities for people to take advantage of opportunities to manage their health and wellbeing. Your excellent knowledge of behaviour change and motivational interviewing make you the perfect candidate for this role.

You will be working with individuals, providing opportunities to overcome barriers, engage with services, benefit from appropriate support and create new positive networks that improve resilience and self-efficacy.

You must have strong partnership building skills to nurture relationships with colleagues across the voluntary and community sector to ensure that Swindon's rich and vibrant community life, is accessible to all.

Your knowledge of early intervention as a means to improve health outcomes alongside an understanding of behaviour change models makes you an ideal candidate for this role.

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You will be delivering a one to one or group-based interventions to people who are referred in by Community leaders. You will work closely with the Project and Team Lead, Programme Manager along with colleagues in the wider team and partners across the health and social care system and will focus on ensuring that the Live Well offer is evidence based, person centred, well planned, safe and effective.

You will find ways to reach out to those facing greatest inequality and are creative and collaborative in your approach, inspiring and motivating lasting change.

You must be fluent in the English language (as a requirement of Part 7 of the Immigration Act "for the effective performance of a customer-facing role").

You must be able to drive or have access to a car in order to be available to support sessions and events around the town., Potential applicants are sometimes put off if they don't meet 100% of the requirements. We think individual experience, skills and passion make all the difference, so if you meet the majority of the criteria, we'd love to hear from you., Disability Confident
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Salary: £28,282 p.a. plus benefits
18.5 Hours per week
FTC until March 2025

At Swindon Borough Council, we want our town to be the best it can be. Our ambitious vision is supported by realistic transformation programmes, with the people of Swindon at their heart. Because that's who we're doing it for - the communities and businesses that make our town great. As part of the Council, you will support a friendly local authority making decisions with real impact. It's all for better public services, better processes, and a better quality of life, for everyone. Join us, and Swindon will be better with you., Your next package

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As an employee, you will receive a diverse and exciting environment in which to work, encouraging creativity and innovation whilst recognising the need to support ongoing personal development and a flexible work life balance.

For Swindon to thrive in the future, we need to lay the foundations now. It's why our regeneration and transformation programmes are already underway. So, you'll be joining us at an exciting time on our journey. We'll look to you to share your knowledge, influence decisions and drive real, positive change. With your contributions, we'll achieve our vision of a prosperous, re-vitalised Swindon together. And you'll be proud to say it was made better with you.