Health and Wellbeing Manager

Health and Wellbeing Manager- focussing on smoking cessation (Stop Smoking Coach Manager) Interviewing asap

Norfolk, East of England remote working

Up to £36,500 plus great benefits - some flexibility required to work evenings and weekends - all travel is reimbursed

Benefits include 25 days holiday per year plus Bank Holidays, Holiday transfer up to 5 days each year, Flexible holiday scheme purchase or sell up to 5 days of holiday each year, Childcare vouchers up to £220 per 4 week period, Free eye tests (and VDU glasses if required), Free Life Insurance benefit (up to £10,000), Personal development scheme, Personal Accident Insurance, Professional qualification sponsorship scheme, Flexi-time as agreed with Line Manager, Life Assurance Cover of Four Times your Salary, Critical Illness Cover, Hospital Cash Plan. All travel for sessions will be reimbursed.

Do you pride yourself on your ability to lead and motivate a team ? Are you passionate about helping people lead healthier lives ?

As a Stop Smoking Coach Manager, you ll play a key role in delivering and managing community-based stop smoking services. This role is multi-disciplinary and involves leading one or more specialist service streams (such as weight management or smoking cessation), line managing a small team of Health & Wellbeing Coaches and directly delivering behavioural change interventions. The volume of each responsibility will vary according to business needs, but approximately 50% of your time spent working directly with participants to support healthier lifestyles.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Line managing a small team of Health & Wellbeing coaches to deliver high quality lifestyle and wellbeing services.
• Conducting team meetings, performance reviews, and development planning.
• Monitoring performance, trends and best practice to identify areas of improvement for designated service
• Liaising with other internal stakeholders such as the Programme Support team and Health & Wellbeing Managers to ensure efficient coordination of team resources.
• Meeting with stakeholders and attending local events to build and strengthen referral pathways.
• Delivering engaging 1:2:1 or group-based health and wellbeing interventions to a caseload of participants either in a face-to-face, remote, or digital setting.

To be successful in this role, we are looking for someone with:

• Knowledge and understanding of the service stream(s) they will lead on e.g. diabetes prevention, weight management, smoking cessation, physical inactivity etc.
• Experience of managing a service/projects/stakeholder relationships/teams within a target orientated environment.
• Experience of promoting/marketing public services to stakeholder / referral partners.
• Demonstrative experience of developing productive external stakeholder relationships.

Desirable Criteria:

• Degree or equivalent qualification in a health-related subject (e.g. health improvement, promotion, public health, nutrition etc); and/or
• A professional qualification & registration relevant to the service stream. For example for Adult Weight Management, this would be: a Degree in dietetics; or a Postgraduate Diploma or Masters in dietetics); and Registration with BDA or equivalent.
• Experience of managing teams within a customer focussed, target orientated environment.
• Experience of delivering group-based services/programmes.
• Level 3 Training qualification (e.g. PTTLs/Award in Education & Training).

To apply for the role of Health and Wellbeing Manager Norfolk focusing on Smoking Cessation please email your cv to

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