Health Check Practitioner - Dereham, United Kingdom - Reed in Partnership

Reed in Partnership

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Dereham, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Do you have experience of working with diverse participant groups to address lifestyle issues?

Do you have experience of delivery brief support and advice?
Consider the role of a
Health Check Practitioner at
Reed Wellbeing
Our high impact lifestyle services help people improve their health. We provide easy-to-access, effective interventions that address a range of lifestyle issues.

With our support, people make sustainable change that will help them improve their wellbeing, become healthier and reduce their chances of developing illnesses.

Closing date 25_th_ Jan with interviews to take place w/c 30 Jan

The role

Health Check Practitioners are critical to the successful delivery of Reed Wellbeing's world class evidence-based health and wellbeing behavioural lifestyle interventions.

Health Check Practitioners will work either in groups or alone (dependent on need anddelivery location) to deliver the Norfolk NHS Health Check Catch-Up Programme.

Comprising of both pre-booked and opportunistic health check delivery, Health Check Practitioners will be responsible for delivering our health check service to agreed quality standards to support commissioner objectives in placing prevention at the heart ofhealth and wellbeing delivery.

What's in it for you?
Alongside a generous base salary and great flexibility with your working schedule, we offer training, development and progression opportunities. With the chance to dramatically make a difference to the local community, this role offers immense job satisfaction.

All Health Check Practitioners will benefit from attainment of The Care Certificate which replaces both the Common Induction Standards and the National Minimum Training Standards. Extensive training in delivery of health checks and wrap around modules tobolster continue workplace development will also be provided._

Required Skills & Experience:

Experience of working with or facilitating diverse participant groups
Experience of/interest in working with individuals or groups to achieve behavioural or lifestyle changes
Experience of delivering brief advice support
Ability to establish an effective and appropriate rapport with programme participants who need to achieve and maintain lifestyle changes (e.g. Healthy weight, increased physical activity, reduction in alcohol intake)
Willingness to undertake evening and weekend work as required
Willingness and flexibility to travel in order to deliver programmes across designated region.

Desirable Personal Attributes:

Delivery of NHS Health Check
Training for NHS Health Checks delivery
Background in healthcare delivery (e.g. in nutrition, physical activity, smoking cessation or healthy lifestyle delivery)
Measuring blood pressure
Point of care blood testing
Communication of health risk and lifestyle advice.
Experience of working with or facilitating diverse participant groups