Self Employed Health & Wellbeing Coach (Lancashire & South Cumbria)

Are you passionate about helping people to lead healthier lives?

Are you an enthusiastic, experienced health professional, looking for a flexible & highly rewarding role?

Then consider joining Reed Wellbeing as a Self-Employed Health & Wellbeing Coach!

As a Self-Employed Health & Wellbeing Coach, you will be responsible for the engagement and delivery of sessions in both group and/or one-to-one settings with participants.

Sessions are delivered face-to-face across Lancashire & South Cumbria, therefore flexibility and a willingness to travel are essential. Applicants must also have access to their own vehicle and hold a full UK driving licence.

Expected availability for programme delivery is between 12 and 20 hours per week. In return, you will receive £50 per 90 Minute session.

Just some of your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Deliver engaging Reed Wellbeing Programme sessions to participants in a group and/or one-to-one setting, in accordance with our curriculum, resources and quality standards.
• Motivate, support, and empower participants to make sustainable lifestyle and behaviour changes, using evidence-based coaching techniques to improve their overall health and wellbeing.
• Adapt session delivery to meet the diverse needs, abilities, and learning styles of participants, and create a positive and inclusive environment to encourage participation.
• Monitor participant progress, conduct regular revies, and celebrate achievements while identifying additional support needs.
• Signpost participants to appropriate local health, wellbeing and lifestyle support services where required.
• Participate in training, professional development, and quality improvement activities to ensure the highest standards of service delivery.
• Contribute ideas and feedback to support continuous improvement of programme delivery and participant outcomes.

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

Essential Qualifications:

• Minimum Level 3 qualification in Exercise Referral, Health Improvement/Promotion/Public Health, Nutrition & Weight Management, Coaching & Behaviour Change, or Education & Training.
• Evidence of training, qualification, or assessed competence in behaviour change delivery, aligned with recognised frameworks (e.g. COM-B, Behaviour Change Wheel, motivational interviewing or health coaching approaches).
• Fully First Aid trained, with a valid certificate.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Experience facilitating groups and supporting individuals to achieve positive health, lifestyle, or behaviour changes.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills, with a person-centred and non-judgemental approach.
• Ability to engage and motivate people from diverse backgrounds and with varying levels of confidence and health literacy.
• Demonstrable IT skills, including the ability to confidently use digital platforms and systems to deliver services, record data, and meet reporting requirements.
• Willingness to participate in induction, supervision, observed practice, competency assessment and ongoing CPD including all mandatory core training.
• Flexibility to work evenings and weekends, as required, and the ability to travel throughout the designated region using your own vehicle.

Desirable Criteria:

• Experience delivering behaviour change programmes aligned with NHS-commissioned or public health services.
• Experience working with individuals and/or groups with additional needs, long-term health conditions, obesity, or pre-diabetes.
• Fluency in multiple languages.
• Experience supporting service users via digital or remote delivery platforms.
• Qualification in group-based delivery.
• Level 3 Qualification in British Sign Language.