Healthier Me Coach

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Are you passionate about health and wellbeing?
Do you want to support people with a learning disability to improve their health and wellbeing?
Do you want to be part of real, lasting change in Nottinghamshire?

The Healthier Me Coach Nottinghamshire is key to the delivery of our Omaze funded activity.

In our new programme called "Healthier Me" we want to reduce the health inequalities experienced by people with a learning disability. We want to empower people we support and our staff teams to have better tools when it comes to health and wellbeing, and we want to make community health offerings more accessible for people with a learning disability.

In the Healthier Me Coach role you will support people with a learning disability to improve their understanding of and access to health and wellbeing. The role supports a caseload of people with a learning disability within our services and local groups to set and achieve personal health goals.

You will empower people with a learning disability through 1-1 coaching, delivering workshops and signposting.The post holder will be responsible for supporting individual progression and connecting the people we support with each other and appropriate opportunities in the community.

You will be working with a team of Healthier Me Coaches across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. You will be managing Healthier Me Champions - colleagues with a learning disability who will strengthen the delivery of this work.

The Healthier Me Coach will work both independently and collaboratively - with local staff in services, community organisations, health teams, families and carers and the Healthier Me Programme Manager. We want the Healthier Me Coach to use a community-led approach, to give people we support and the wider community opportunities to contribute and be part of local solutions.You will establish strong working relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders that enable Mencap to secure positive outcomes for people with a learning disability.

The Healthier Me Coach will work closely with the Programme Manager to ensure good monitoring processes are followed to reach set targets and goals. You will support with monitoring progression, collecting and inputting data.

In everything you do you will act as an ambassador for Mencap and promote our values.

Responsibilities

• Line management and professional development of colleagues with lived experience of a learning disability – Healthier Me Champions.
• Effectively manager a caseload of individuals, supporting them to set and personalised health goals.
• Ensure that all contractual outcomes linked to your caseload are achieved, captured and documented.
• Deliver workshops and training to Mencap teams, people with a learning disability and community members.
• Implement community-led ways of working and co-production in their approach.
• Provide signposting, support and tools to individuals, carers and support staff.
  
• Take responsibility for own professional development, and where needed use feedback to continually improve own performance.
  
• Develop relationships with stakeholders and gather feedback.
• Complete reporting required for internal and external monitoring, accurately and on time.
  
• Generate community opportunities with local organisations (e.g. allotment, leisure centre, social groups).
  
• Highlight and report any practice issues or safety concerns to secure support and improvement in line with organisational policies.

• Be passionate about making health and wellbeing accessible.
• Have excellent communication and relationship building skills.
• Demonstrate enthusiasm and flexibility for the team and its work.
• Demonstrate an understanding of community-led ways of working.
• Demonstrate an understanding of a duty of care to the individuals supported.
• Understand responsibility for Prevent, safeguarding and critical incident reporting in accordance with both internal and external procedures.
• Demonstrate an interest and commitment to the broader work of Mencap by attending meetings as required to support collaboration.
• Live Mencap's values - Inclusive, Brave, Positive, Kind and Passionate.