Specialist Health and Wellbeing Coach

Specialist Health and Wellbeing Coach - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - 42166 - Maximus

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Specialist Health and Wellbeing Coach

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Job Posting Title

Specialist Health and Wellbeing Coach

Date

Tuesday, July 21, 2026

City

Remote

Country

United Kingdom

Working time

Full-time

Closing Date

28-Jul-2026

Description & Requirements

Be part of something great, Maximus is a global organisation that specialises in providing health and employment services to millions of people every year. Here in the UK we employ around 5,000 people across the country to deliver services that have a profound impact on people’s lives. From assessments and health services to employability programmes and specialist support, we do work that matters with people who care.

**Although the role is home-based you will need you to drive and have your own transport as you will be going into communities covering face to face delivery across, Watford, Cheshunt, Stevenage, Borehamwood, Hemel Hempstead and Hatfield . This role does involve supporting families so experience of working with children/young people is advantageous as you will be delivering on our families programme. The role will also involve working at least 2-3 evenings a week Monday to Thursday with the latest delivery being until 19:30. ** The Specialist Health & Wellbeing Coach provides individually tailored diet, nutrition, and behaviour change advice to service users / participants (adults and/or children, young people, and families) to manage their weight and make sustainable changes to improve their overall health and wellbeing. As a Specialist Health & Wellbeing Coach you will provide evidence-based dietary and behaviour change services via one-to-one and group-based service deliver and ensure operational safety of weight management group programmes. As part of this you will support your caseload to implement experiments, track behaviours, utilise tech enabled support, make best use of resources, support each other, explore / use wider community provision and achieve their outcomes. To provide medium and high need nutritional and behaviour change services for eligible participants, empowering children, families, and adults to manage their weight and lifestyle-behaviours effectively and support service users / participants in achieving their own self-identified health and wellbeing goals. Depending on need participants will experience either virtual or face-to-face health coaching group delivery sessions in the community, including but not limited to: * Supporting the recruitment of individuals to the interventions * Support our triage and assessment process. * Agenda setting with clients. * Lifestyle behaviour change support to move more, achieve a healthy weight/diet. * Problem solving with adaptability to individual context. * Motivational interviewing * Goal setting * Signposting to other services if required (e.g., stop smoking, reduce alcohol consumption levels) Delivery group weight management that is underpinned by behaviour change methodology and empowers service users / participants to manage their weight and lifestyle-behaviours effectively achieving their own self-identified health and wellbeing goals, ensuring information, advice and guidance is: * Engaging * Age-appropriate * Informative * Accurate * Evidence-based * Culturally relevant * Fun * Resourceful * Transferable and applicable to attendees every-day life (experimentation) * Holistic * Supportive of