The Healthier Me Coach is key to the delivery of our exciting new Omaze funded activity. This is a part-time, fixed-term position of 22.5 hours per week, ending in December 2027. The working days are Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. A valid driving license and access to a vehicle are essential for this role.

In our new programme called "Healthier Me" we want to: 

• Improve health outcomes for people with a learning disability. 
• Empower people we support and our staff teams to have better tools when it comes to health and wellbeing 
• Make community health offerings more accessible for people with a learning disability.

You will be working within a team of Healthier Me Coaches across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Healthier Me Coach will work both independently and collaboratively. 

In the Healthier Me Coach role, you will support people with a learning disability to improve their understanding of, and access to, health and wellbeing.

A key part of this work will be to support around 100 people with a learning disability to set and achieve personal health goals over 2 years. You will do this through 1 to 1 coaching, delivering workshops and signposting, amongst other things. The post holder will be responsible for supporting individual progression and connecting the people Mencap supports with each other and appropriate opportunities in the community. 

We have Belonging network groups that meet online and are open to all colleagues. The groups include people who identify as Black and Asian, LGBTQIA+, disabled or with a long- term health condition, women, parents and carers, and their allies.

We want to encourage everyone to apply to work at Mencap and we offer a variety of different contract types and working patterns. We’re not looking for specific experience. It is your personality and values that will make you a great colleague. We will train and develop you to succeed in the role you’re applying for.

The successful candidate will:

• Be passionate about making health and wellbeing accessible.
• Have excellent communication and relationship building skills.
• Demonstrate enthusiasm and flexibility for the team and its work.
• Demonstrate an understanding of community-led ways of working.
• Demonstrate an understanding of a duty of care to the individuals supported.
• Understand responsibility for Prevent, safeguarding and critical incident reporting in accordance with both internal and external procedures.
• Demonstrate an interest and commitment to the broader work of Mencap by attending meetings as required to support collaboration.
• Live Mencap's values - Inclusive, Brave, Positive, Kind and Passionate.