Health and Wellbeing Coach – focussing on smoking cessation (Be Smoke Free Team)

Macclesfield and Sandbach, Cheshire

6 month contract to start asap

up to £24k plus great benefits

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.

Macclesfield and Sandbach – travelling to deliver coaching sessions to groups of participants

We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic stop smoking advisor to join our Be Smoke Free team. Some key duties of the role include; providing intensive support for smokers and tobacco users using a combination of pharmacotherapies and behavioural support; accurate record-keeping, to prioritising workload according to the needs of the service.

The successful candidate will have experience in smoking cessation, however in-house training will be available. 

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

Deliver the ‘Wellbeing’ programmes and other elements of service in a manner that engages and interests all participants.
Tailor delivery to meet the Participant’s needs and learning styles.
Creating and maintaining a constructive and confidential learning environment
Capturing key metrics at different points in the participants’ journey i.e. monitoring and recording participants’ progress.
Liaise with professionals including GPs and primary care staff to promote and generate referrals to the service.

Understanding of health improvement or promotion or public health or equivalent;  or
Qualification in nutrition;  or
Training qualification (e.g. PTTLs / Award in Education & Training);  or
Degree of equivalent in a relevant subject;  or
Experience of delivery group based health or physical activity or advice & guidance interventions.
Driver licence and access to a car is essential

Desirable Attributes:

An understanding of and interest in health-related physical activity, healthy eating and health-related behaviour change.
Willingness to undertake evening work as required.

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

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