Live Well Health Coach, Smoking Cessation

You are one of our motivated Health Coaches, providing brief interventions to the residents of Swindon with a specific focus on communities facing the greatest inequality. Your work will support individuals by providing targeted 1:1 Stop Smoking support for people in Swindon. The role will involve running clinics and drop-ins in the community, helping a set number of smokers to quit each year.  You will also promote these clinics and drop-ins to ensure adequate client numbers, including face to face outreach, production/display of advertising materials and other promotional initiatives that attract local smokers.

You will bring skills in delivering health improvement interventions, partnership working and health promotion knowledge to a council where we put Swindon and its people at the heart of everything we do.

Applications are clearly welcomed from anyone that is already NCSCT qualified, but if not, you will be supported in becoming professionally certified. 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.

Your next role

You will be delivering a 1:1 or group-based stop smoking Health Coaching service, and health promotion activity. You will motivate and support clients from targeted groups to achieve their desired goal of stopping smoking via a 12-week programme. You will work closely with the Project and Team Lead and Programme Manager along with colleagues in the wider team 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.

Your next package

Please see our Rewards and Benefits offer for more details.

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 by 2030 together. And you’ll be proud to say it was made better with you.

Your next steps

As an inclusive employer, we welcome applications from a diverse range of communities, and in particular disabled people and people from ethnic minorities. Read our statement of commitment to equality & inclusion.

For further information about the role, please contact Hassan Adam, email  hadam@swindon.gov.uk or call 01793 465513.

All applications for this position are being handled through NHS Jobs. Please visit the NHS Jobs website for application details. NHS Ref No: F0065-RNR002292