Job responsibilities
The Role: What you will do?
Are you looking for career progression? If so this could be the next step for you.
- The role will involve taking a lead in managing and assisting in developing a team of Health & Wellbeing Coaches and ensuring day to day running of the Healthy Living Healthy Minds (HLHM), and structured exercise programmes.
- You will work alongside Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners, Cognitive Behavioural Therapists, Counsellors, and Employments Advisors in supporting the delivery of physical and wellbeing interventions for people presenting with Depression, Anxiety and other common mental health difficulties in a high volume talking therapies service, part of the national NHS Talking Therapies programme.
- This role will be hybrid, with the expectation of flexible travel approximately once or twice a week across our Nottingham patch for face to face delivery of exercise classes or visiting our offices.
Have any questions about the role? Please contact janey.bosker@vhg.co.uk with the subject line HLHM Team lead.
Skills and Experience:
Essential:
- Hold a minimum level 3 accredited qualification (such as REPs or CIMSPA) on exercise instruction, and have experience in teaching exercise classes
- Leadership experience
- Experience of delivering client work via 1:1 and group delivery
- Experience of delivering exercise classes
- Experience of SMART Goal setting with clients
- Knowledge of common mental health presentations
Desirable:
- Formal management qualification or evidence of training.
- Operational experience of remote team management.
- Experience of recruitment and on boarding of new employees
- Experience in delivering training to staff
Why Vita Health Group?
Vita Health Group celebrates life. Improving lives physically and mentally drives everything we do.
We are physical and mental health specialists with over 30 years of experience. We work in partnership with the NHS, are engaged by insurers and some of the UKs largest corporate companies to support their workforce and provide a full range of physiotherapy services to private customers.
To achieve our mission ofmaking people better, we recognise the importance of investing in our staff. In addition to a competitive salary, we also offer the opportunity of a flexible work life balance and a comprehensive benefits package which you can view here:https://www.vitahealthgroup.co.uk/join-us/careers/
To progress your skills and enable career development we provide Continued Professional Development opportunities including secondments, management training, a mentoring scheme and regular events and webinars across a range of clinical disciplines.
Vita Health Group is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion best practice and positively encourage applications from candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion/belief, marital status, or pregnancy/maternity. To support this we have a dedicated team of EDI specialists and run a range of active in-house diversity networks.
We are actively seeking to increase the diversity of our workforce, to ensure we are representative of the communities we serve at all levels. We therefore welcome applications from candidates with a wide range of lived experience.
We are committed to equitably support the wellbeing of all employees as demonstrated by:
- Our association with the MINDFUL EMPLOYER Charter for Employers who are Positive About Mental Health.
- Our status as a Disability Confident Employer dedicated to ensuring that all candidates are treated fairly throughout the recruitment process. All disabled candidates that meet the minimum essential criteria will be invited to interview.
- Our Ethnicity Matters Scheme where all applicants for senior roles (£40,000+) from a minority ethnic group that meet the essential criteria will be invited for interview.
- Our sign up to the Armed Forces Covenant.
- Our status as a Menopause Friendly Committed employer.
- Our sign up to the Employer with Heart Charter.
- Our commitment to meet the standards outlined in the NHS Equality Delivery System (EDS). Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) and Workforce Disability Equality Standard (WDES).
- The provision of access to health and wellbeing services for colleagues which includes a team of trained Mental Health Advocates and an Employee Assistance Programme.
- An embedded speaking up culture facilitated by Freedom to Speak Up Guardians.
Should you wish to discuss any adjustment or assistance you might need in the application or interview process please contact recruitment@vhg.co.uk and we will arrange.
VHG is committed to supporting transgender individuals with dignity and recognises the potential complications that may arise when taking references. We encourage applicants to contact HR at hr@vhg.co.uk to discuss or amend how we manage reference requests.
Please note, all applicants must be legally entitled to accept and perform work in the UK and all positions are subject to a DBS check.
Any data which you share with us throughout the hiring process will be stored securely within the UK and is accessible only by staff who require it. Should your application be unsuccessful, your data will be securely destroyed after 6 months.
Vita Health Group reserves the right to close this job when sufficient applications have been received.
