Health Coach - Suffolk and North East Essex

Health Coach - Suffolk and North East Essex

Location: Face-to-face across Suffolk and North East Essex

Preferred Location: Bury St Edmunds area

Hours: Various freelance / part-time roles

Start Date: Immediate start possible

Requirements (one of the following):

• Associate or Registered Nutritionist (AfN)
• Qualified Health Coach
• Trainee Health or Clinical Psychologist (BPS approved programme)
• Other Health Care Professionals may be considered

Join our vibrant team at Counterweight

A global leader in evidence-based weight loss - we're on a mission to bring healthier habits within reach for everyone!

Our flagship Counterweight Plus programme, the intervention used in the groundbreaking diabetes remission clinical trial DiRECT, has revolutionised the treatment of type 2 diabetes worldwide.

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive, friendly, and highly dedicated team. Our dynamic culture promotes respect, collaboration, and the freedom to share ideas. As part of our team, you'll play a crucial role in advancing our mission to make our weight management and type 2 diabetes services accessible to everyone.

We're excited to expand our team with new Programme Delivery Coaches specifically in Suffolk and North East Essex. This opportunity involves delivering Counterweight Plus as part of the NHS Type 2 Diabetes Path to Remission Programme.

By combining specialist nutrition, psychology, physical activity, and lifestyle support, this initiative focuses on rapid weight loss, sustainable behaviour change, and ultimately type 2 diabetes remission.

A typical week as a Counterweight Coach would include:

• Delivering the Counterweight Plus programme to individuals either in person or remotely (telephone, video, text chat) using the Counterweight App or Workbook
• Providing evidence-based nutrition and health behaviour change support to assist individuals to make changes to their eating and activity behaviours.
• Facilitating all sessions using motivational interviewing skills to guide and support individuals to make long term behaviour changes.
• Offering a personalised, person-centred service to individuals and adapting the programme delivery to meet their individual needs, e.g. cultural, medical, psychological, disability etc.
• Maintaining accurate and up-to-date clinical records using our secure electronic medical record system, ensuring the proper management of sensitive data in line with company policy.
• Engaging in ongoing training relevant to your role and evidencing professional development.
• Working with your Counterweight colleagues to contribute to service developments – we’re always looking to share knowledge and resources.
• Ensuring due consideration and adherence to our internal Counterweight policies and procedures for reporting clinical risk incidents, adverse events.
• Following Counterweight medical monitoring guidelines and acting on thresholds of actions for measurement reporting according to established protocols.
• Sharing our company values and driving our company mission across our services.

A few things we ask of you

• Essential: Associate or Registered Nutritionist (AfN) / Registered Dietitian (HCPC) / UKHCA Registered Health Coach / Trainee Health or Clinical Psychologist (HCPC/BPS approved programme).
• Essential: Willingness to undertake the Cambridge Diabetes Education Programme or SCOPE obesity training as part of your role.
• Desirable: Previous experience in delivering a Type 2 Diabetes Remission programme, or working with people living with diabetes, overweight or obesity.
• Desirable: To best support the needs of our patients in Suffolk and North East Essex we are also particularly keen to hear from applicants who are fluent in Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Bengali, Malayalam, Tamil, Romanian, Lithuanian, Kurdish Sorani.

We hire based on team synergy over solely skills and experience so if you don’t have all of the necessary experience but feel you are right for the role we would love to hear from you!

We believe that having a truly diverse team where everyone can be their authentic self is the key to success. We invite candidates from all backgrounds to apply, we do not discriminate based on race, colour, religion, gender, identity, expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, marital status, disability, or age.

Ready to join us in this exciting new phase at Counterweight?

Please send applications to careers@counterweight.org