Health Advisor - BUPA

Job description

Job responsibilities

Health Advisor – BUPA

Contract: Permanent

Working Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 8.00am-4.00pm or 9.00am-5.00pm

Salary: £26,000

KIMS Hospital is the largest independent hospital in Kent and we are recruiting.   We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic individual with a passion for promoting a healthy lifestyle to join our Sevenoaks Medical Centre as a BUPA Health Advisor. 

Our Sevenoaks Medical Centre team consists of Nurses, Care Support Workers, Radiographers, Physical Therapists and administrators to provide outpatient and diagnostic services to the local community across to a full range of clinical specialties, including orthopaedics, dermatology, urology, gynaecology, gastroenterology and more.

You will deliver a range of assessment products & actively work with our patients to identify lifestyle changes that will directly impact their health & wellbeing. Helping people make brave decisions & take the steps that will lead to patients leading longer, healthier, happier lives.

You will be a strong and empathetic individual with experience in performing measurement and assessment in health and fitness.

Role Responsibilities include:

• Offer an outstanding customer experience & put the patient at the centre of their health assessment
• Explain clinical results and risk factors to our customers – take them on a journey of how this impacts their health & wellbeing & steps they can take to mitigate this risk
• Give individual lifestyle advice appropriate to customer needs with reference to their health risk, health assessment results and their health and wellbeing goals
• Refer patients as required and work as partners to manage the Customer’s Health Assessment
• Support the service delivery of Health Assessments to customers
• Maintain accurate client records and get involved in the end to end process
• Promote and encourage a healthier lifestyle in accordance with Bupa’s current clinical policies
• Carry out clinical testing including; body composition analysis, spirometry, heart rate monitoring, diabetes blood test markers, blood pressure measurement, cholesterol profiling, anaemia blood test markers, electrocardiograms, functional movement screening.
• Create individual lifestyle action plans using motivational interviewing techniques to promote behaviour change.

Person Specification:

• Have a post-secondary education vocational qualification in physiology, nutrition or similar health science
• Have experience of performing measurement or assessment in a health and fitness e.g. personal training or medical environment
• Have experience and able to take bloods from patients
• Be experienced in giving patient advice in a healthy living / lifestyle context, including physical activity, nutrition, smoking, alcohol, sleep and stress management
• Have knowledge of anatomy/physiology in relation to health and lifestyle
• Have excellent interpersonal and communication skills – written and verbal

KIMS Hospital employees enjoy the following benefits:

• Free Secure Staff Parking
• Pension Scheme
• Private Health Insurance
• 33 Days annual leave plus extra time off for your birthday
• Life Assurance
• Annual Flu Vaccination
• Free Eye Test

At KIMS Hospital we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive working environment. We strive to create a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and are proud to be an equal opportunities and disability confident employer.

If you have any queries regarding this vacancy, Liz would be happy to help. Please give her a call on 01622 231694 or email recruitment@kims.org.uk.

Any offers of employment made by KIMS Hospital for this/these position(s) will be subject to proof of eligibility to work in the UK and receipt of a satisfactory DBS Certificate from the Disclosure & Barring Service.   Information about the DBS checks can be found at https://www.gov.uk/disclosure-barring-service-check

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• • Have a post-secondary education vocational qualification in physiology, nutrition or similar health science
• • Have experience of performing measurement or assessment in a health and fitness e.g. personal training or medical environment
• • Have experience and able to take bloods from patients
• • Be experienced in giving patient advice in a healthy living / lifestyle context, including physical activity, nutrition, smoking, alcohol, sleep and stress management
• • Have knowledge of anatomy/physiology in relation to health and lifestyle
• • Have excellent interpersonal and communication skills - written and verbal

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

KIMS Hospital

Address

Newnham Court Way,

Maidstone, Kent

Maidstone

All UK

ME14 5FT

Employer's website

https://kims.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)