Job Description
Do you want to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of your community?
Have you got experience of working within the health and wellbeing sector to support a wide range of clients with getting regular health checks?
Are you looking for your next opportunity?
The role
ICE is one of the fastest growing health and lifestyle behaviour change organisations in the country. Our entire team is committed to and passionate about improving the happiness, health, and wellbeing of people throughout the UK.
We are looking for passionate and driven people who want to join our Oxfordshire-based team to work within the local community. You will work as part of a team of passionate health coaches and advisors as we launch a brand-new community outreach NHS Health Checks service across Oxfordshire.
You will deliver comprehensive NHS Health Checks to members of the public aged 40-74 years to provide a detailed assessment of their current state of health and to refer them and signpost them to relevant services to improve their health and wellbeing post check.
You will deliver checks in community venues and workplaces.
This role will work to agreed targets and objectives as part of the team to ensure that the service delivers what it needs.
The role is ideally suited to people with strong communication skills and those who are really passionate about making a difference to people’s lives on a daily basis.
It also includes working with vulnerable adults and such the successful candidate will be required to apply for a DBS prior to starting the role
We have a 3 days per week role.
Candidates MUST be able to drive to clinics .
Who We Are
ICE is one of the fastest growing behaviour change organisations in the UK. We bring courage, energy and ambition to equip & enable more organisations & people to move our world forward. To grow our significance as a leading behaviour change practice. By energising organisations & people to find the clarity, courage, & commitment needed to realise their full purpose & potential.
Our Mission
We are social activists driven to unlock your power, purpose and possibility, we are for people and planet.
We Make Better Happen.
We are a purpose-driven organisation; our ethos and beliefs are important to us. As a team we hold and practice three core character traits and set around those character traits are the behaviours that matter to us as a team for our work together.
Whole Heartedness
Bring passion and energy to our work, our colleagues and ourselves
- Be ready to work hard and give 100%
- Be your true self – bring your energy, enthusiasm, and full commitment to everything you do. Be a powerful inspiration for others.
- Recognise celebrate and share successes and celebrate and share success.
- Show you care, support your teammates when they need it and listen to them without judgement.
- Treat people with respect.
We work hard, give 100% and how we inspire others is a powerful catalyst for meaningful change. We bring energy and enthusiasm to everything we do.
We respect each other and support each other to achieve more together.
Sharing success amongst ourselves and outside our organisation is important because quality work and spreading social resilience in society must be encouraged and celebrated.
Trust
Trust and intent to do the right thing
- Do the right thing. Ask yourself “did I do my best today?”
- Take ownership - do what you say you are going to do. If you notice something is not right or could be done better, take responsibility to find a resolution – don’t think “that’s not my job.”
- Have courage to be honest with yourself and others about what you can and can’t do. Reach out for support if you need it.
We trust each other’s intent to do the right thing. We continually ask ourselves “did I do my best today?”. We know accountable and take ownership of our responsibilities drives positive change and success. If we notice anything is not right or could be improved, we try to find a resolution, rather than think “that’s not my job”.
As we promote trust, we have the courage to be honest with ourselves and others about what we can and can’t achieve, knowing we can reach out for support if we need it.
Being Curious and Creative
Bringing our ideas to add value to what we do
- Explore ideas that are creative, unusual, not limited or controlled by rules or assumptions to bring new ideas and solutions
- Share ideas, challenge, experiment and be open minded.
- Be curious, ask yourself, “what is it I don’t understand about this?”
- Try something new, make bold decisions - be brave – step outside your comfort zone and don’t be afraid to make mistakes – mistakes are opportunities to learn.
- Share learnings and welcome learnings from others.
We pioneer curiosity and don’t limit our thinking to bring new ideas and solutions to help us to achieve our mission. This facilitates an open-minded environment of sharing ideas, sharing challenges and experimenting with each other.
Making bold and brave decisions is in our nature. We are not afraid to step outside of our comfort zone and we know mistakes can be made into fantastic learning opportunities.
We always strive for clarity by asking ourselves “what is it I don’t understand about this?”, continually sharing learnings and readily welcome learnings from others.
“We live by what we believe not by what we see.”
Are you right for the job?
- You will need to be an independent self-starter, flexible and driven by engagement, outcomes and service management.
- You will be used to working towards outcome targets.
- You will live in the local to Oxfordshire area to be able to travel and work daily in Oxfordshire.
- You will own a car and be able to drive to client sites and other offices if required.
What you will do
- Deliver comprehensive NHS Health Checks including understanding lifestyle and health behaviours.
- Conduct bio metric testing including Blood pressure checks, cholesterol and HBA1c testing using Point of care testing kits (POCT) and provide clients with an assessment and results of their current health and level of cardiovascular risk.
- Use coaching techniques to ensure that the client understands the level of risk and discuss how changes the client can make including referring them to wider service support including our own Stop for Life smoking service, weight management services, physical activity interventions and the National Diabetes Prevention Programme.
- Manage the referral of your clients to their own GP for further clinical assessment depending on their bio metric results using the NHS Health Check digital tool.
- Be responsible for the accurate case management of each of your clients including accurate and robust data input onto the digital NHS Health Check tool.
- Manage your diary and time in collaboration with the Admin Co-ordinator and Senior Leadership team to ensure that you maximise capacity and support clients aligned to your individual targets.
- Monitor your own performance against your monthly performance targets to ensure you are contributing and supporting the success of the service and your wider team.
- Keep up to date with latest national guidance on delivering NHS Health Checks effectively and share any learnings with your team mates.
- You will be a Self-starter who enjoys working with people and helping them to understand their current health and most importantly encourage them to make changes to help improve their health and wellbeing over time.
What you’ll bring
- A good knowledge of the Oxfordshire area.
- You will be a people-person, an enthusiast for how healthy lifestyles can impact positively on people’s health, someone who is fantastic at building rapport with an ability to persuade.
- You are willing to get out into the community and workplaces to develop relationships and set up clinics. You will be a self-starter, rather than waiting to be told what to do, eager to understand how the community works.
- You are resilient and driven by the desire to support people to be the best they can be.
- Full training will be provided during on-boarding.
- Experience in using Zoom, Microsoft Teams and other digital platforms.
Strictly no Agencies - thank you for your understanding
Job Type: Part-time
Part-time hours: 22.5 per week
Salary: £22,000.00-£24,000.00 per year
Schedule:
Work Location: In person
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