Health & Wellbeing Coach-4

Reed in Partnership has been delivering public services since 1998. We are a British, family-owned company, whose mission has always been to positively transform people and their communities. This is reflected in our services, which we deliver to help people from all backgrounds and circumstances to change their lives for the better.

Pay Range

London Region - £26,300 - £33,500

Inside London - £29,000 - £34,500

Job Description

Are you skilled in building a supportive, non-judgemental environment with people from all backgrounds?

Are you passionate about supporting people to make healthier lifestyle choices?

Then consider the role of Health & Wellbeing Coach at Reed Wellbeing!

This role covers Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster - travel covered up to 5 days a week.

Please note, internal applications for this role close on 8th October 2026.

Who we are

Reed Wellbeing is a public services provider that aims to support people in making sustainable lifestyle changes to improve their physical and mental wellbeing. Since 2015, we have been delivering a range of evidence-based, person centred interventions and services, including: NHS Health Checks, Smoking Cessation, Weight Management and Type 2 Diabetes Prevention and Treatment.

Our One You Kensington, Chelsea, and Westminster service helps its local residents live healthier lives and reduce their chances of developing serious illnesses. Our support includes guidance on moving more, being tobacco free, eating well, drinking less, and losing weight.

What is the role about?

Health & Wellbeing Coaches are critical to the successful delivery of Reed Wellbeing’s world class, evidence-based health and wellbeing behavioural lifestyle interventions. In this role, you’ll support a caseload of participants by helping them identify and set realistic health goals and develop the knowledge, motivation, and skills needed to make sustainable lifestyle changes and better manage their conditions.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

Taking Ownership

• Delivering engaging 1:2:1 or group-based health and wellbeing interventions to a caseload of participants either in a face-to-face, remote, or digital setting
• Support participants in developing tailored SMART support plans with the aim to achieve sustainable behavioural and lifestyle improvements

Working Together

• Liaising with healthcare professionals including GPs to promote and generate referrals to the service

Being Fair, Open and Honest

• Capturing key metrics at different points in the participants journey and progress (e.g. weight, alcohol intake) on Reed Wellbeing systems

What’s in it for you?

A generous base salary (pro-rata for part time), and great flexibility with your working schedule, we offer training, development and progression opportunities. You will have access to the range of Reed in Partnership benefits, which include:

• 25 days annual leave (pro-rata for part time) plus statutory bank holidays
• Reed Pension Scheme
• Award Winning Management & Leadership training
• Professional & Personal Development Funds
• Bi-annual pay reviews
• Plus much more that can be found on our website

The Health & Wellbeing Coach role offers you the opportunity to directly contribute to our mission by actively empowering people to take control of their lifestyle and make sustainable changes. At Reed in Partnership, our values - Fair, Open & Honest, Take Ownership, and Work Together, guide everything we do. Join us in delivering services that make a real difference.

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

Essential Criteria

• Experience of coaching or facilitating diverse participant groups.
• Physical Activity: REPS Level 3 qualification (e.g. Level 3 Certificate in Supporting Participation in Physical Activity: Long-Term Health Conditions – may be referred to as L3 GP exercise referral)  or equivalent (Level 4 qualifications may be required for certain services);
• Experience of/interest in working with groups to achieve sustained behavioural or lifestyle improvements.
• Experience of working to targets and driving performance improvement.
• Ability to establish an effective and appropriate rapport with key stakeholders and participants.
• An understanding of health-related behaviour change.
• Active listening skills whilst maintaining a non-judgemental perspective on participant’s lifestyle, weight, and health.
• Ability to communicate sensitively and accurately, information regarding an individual’s health and weight.
• Ability to coach individuals and groups to identify solutions and develop knowledge and skills to support behavioural change.
• Demonstrable time management and personal organisation skills with the capacity to monitor, evaluate and report on work carried out.
• Willingness to undertake evening and weekend work as required.
• Willingness and flexibility to travel in order to deliver programmes across designated region.

Desirable Attributes:

•        Previous experience working with community groups or in a health-related role, either paid or voluntary.

•        A directly relevant qualification to the service stream specialism. For example:

-  Adult Weight Management / Intensive Support / Healthy Eating & Drinking: REPS Level 3 or Level 3 qualification in health improvement or promotion or public health or equivalent (e.g. City & Guilds Level 3 Health Trainer or equivalent);

-  Smoking Cessation: NCSCT Certificates in Smoking Cessation Practitioner including the following areas smoking cessation; mental health, pregnancy and post-partum period, VBW and second-hand smoke.

-  NDPP/ T2DR: Level 3 qualification in health coaching, nutrition, fitness or a related field.

We aim to ensure that no candidate or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity.  We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria.