Life Coach jobs in Beaconsfield

JOB DESCRIPTION

AKG Group UK Company:

AKG Health

Position Title:

Health Coach

Reports To:

Service Manager / Health Service Lead

Roles Reporting to this Position:

None

Primary Objective:

The Health Coach is responsible for providing specialist, person-centred health coaching to young people who are experiencing health-related barriers to securing, starting or sustaining employment. The post holder will deliver tailored one-to-one and small-group interventions, in person and remotely, covering mental health, neurodiversity, anxiety management, confidence building, health and wellbeing, and condition-management strategies.

Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, the Health Coach will receive referrals where a young person's assessment or ongoing Mentor contact identifies a health-related need requiring specialist support. Support will be available before employment, during job preparation and throughout funded employment where needed, with the aim of improving wellbeing, progression and job retention.

The Health Coach will support young people to understand and articulate their needs, including developing a Health Adjustment Passport where appropriate, while working with Mentors and Employer Services colleagues to coordinate reasonable-adjustment and workplace-support conversations. The role will maintain clear professional boundaries and will complement, rather than duplicate, PAM Wellness and other clinical, statutory or crisis services.

Key Relationships/Interactions

Internal

• Service Manager / Health Service Lead - works collaboratively to ensure safe, high-quality delivery, operational performance and continuous improvement.

• Mentors - receives appropriate referrals, shares relevant progress information and coordinates health support with the young person Support Plan.

• Employer Services Consultants - supports Health Adjustment Passports and coordinated discussions about job carving, flexible working and reasonable adjustments.

• Activity Coordinator and delivery colleagues - contributes to group health and wellbeing activities and integrated young person support.

• AKG Health clinical and governance colleagues - seeks professional guidance, escalates safeguarding or clinical-risk concerns and supports quality assurance.

• Quality, Compliance and Data teams - maintains evidence that meets contractual, audit, data protection and reporting requirements.

External

• Young people - builds trusted, inclusive and strengths-based relationships that encourage engagement, confidence and progression.

• Jobcentre Plus Work Coaches and programme stakeholders - contributes to coordinated support where required and permitted.

• Healthcare professionals and specialist services - liaises or signposts appropriately, with consent and within professional boundaries.

• Community organisations - develops effective local referral pathways across Buckinghamshire and South West London.

• Employers - contributes, where appropriate and with young person consent, to workplace adjustment and retention discussions.

Key Responsibilities

Specialist Young Person Support

• Deliver structured one-to-one health coaching tailored to identified needs, employment goals and the young person journey.

• Provide small-group health and wellbeing sessions and contribute to programme workshops.

• Deliver support flexibly through in-person and remote appointments across the relevant contract area.

• Provide specialist wraparound support before employment and throughout funded employment where required to maximise retention.

• Agree clear, measurable actions with young people and review progress at appropriate intervals.

Mental Health, Neurodiversity and Wellbeing

• Provide evidence-informed support for young people experiencing mental health, emotional wellbeing or neurodiversity-related barriers.

• Deliver anxiety-management, confidence-building and resilience interventions linked to work preparation and sustainment.

• Help young people recognise strengths, preferences, triggers and practical strategies that support successful employment.

• Make appropriate onward referrals where needs fall outside the scope of health coaching, including urgent, statutory or specialist clinical support.

Condition Management and Health Adjustment Passports

• Support young people to develop practical self-management and condition-management strategies that complement advice from treating professionals.

• Co-produce a Health Adjustment Passport where relevant, enabling young people to describe their strengths, needs and effective workplace adjustments.

• Work with Employer Services colleagues so young person-led information can inform reasonable-adjustment, flexible-working and job-carving discussions.

• Promote young person choice, consent and ownership of any information shared with employers or partner agencies.

Integrated Delivery and Partnerships

• Work closely with Mentors so specialist health interventions are coordinated with the young person Support Plan and employment objectives.

• Participate in case discussions and multidisciplinary reviews while maintaining confidentiality and information-sharing requirements.

• Build effective links with local health, wellbeing, neurodiversity and community services.

• Keep AKG Health provision distinct from PAM Wellness while helping young people understand how the complementary services can be accessed.

Safeguarding, Professional Practice and Governance

• Identify, record and escalate safeguarding, wellbeing and risk concerns in line with AKG procedures.

• Work within competence, professional registration requirements and agreed clinical-governance arrangements.

• Maintain clear boundaries and ensure health coaching is not presented as diagnosis, medical treatment, crisis intervention or a substitute for statutory healthcare.

• Attend supervision, reflective practice, mandatory training and continuing professional development as required.

Data, Quality and Performance

• Maintain timely, accurate and outcome-focused young person records on approved systems.

• Record referrals, attendance, interventions, progress, Health Adjustment Passports, onward referrals and outcomes in line with contractual requirements.

• Contribute to quality assurance, case audits, service evaluation and continuous improvement.

• Manage workload and appointments effectively, responding flexibly to referral demand across the contract area.

• Comply with UK GDPR, information security, equality, safeguarding and health and safety requirements.

Essential/Desirable Skills, Knowledge and Experience

Essential Qualifications and Experience

• A recognised professional qualification in counselling, mental health, psychology, nursing, occupational therapy, allied health, health coaching or another relevant discipline.

• For the South West London position, BACP registration/accreditation or an equivalent recognised clinical qualification that meets the commitment for a BACP-qualified clinician.

• Experience supporting people experiencing mental health, neurodiversity, disability, long-term health conditions or wider health-related barriers.

• Experience delivering structured one-to-one interventions and facilitating groups or workshops.

• Ability to support anxiety management, confidence building and practical condition-management strategies within professional competence.

• Knowledge of safeguarding, risk management, consent, confidentiality and professional boundaries.

• Understanding of person-centred, strengths-based practice and the Social Model of Disability.

• Ability to travel across the relevant contract area and deliver services from community, office and partner locations, with remote delivery where appropriate.

Desirable

• Experience working on DWP-funded, employment support or vocational rehabilitation programmes.

• Experience developing Health Adjustment Passports, workplace wellbeing plans or reasonable-adjustment recommendations.

• Knowledge of motivational interviewing, behaviour-change approaches, coaching psychology or trauma-informed practice.

• Experience providing in-work health support focused on retention and sustainment.

• Knowledge of local health and community provision in Buckinghamshire or the South West London boroughs of Croydon, Kingston, Merton, Richmond upon Thames and Sutton.

Skills and Competencies

• Excellent coaching, active-listening and relationship-building skills.

• Ability to engage young people experiencing complex or multiple barriers without creating dependency.

• Confident group facilitation and presentation skills.

• Clear written communication, case recording and report-writing skills.

• Strong organisation, prioritisation and autonomous caseload management.

• Ability to work collaboratively across health, employability, employer and community services.

• Commitment to equality, diversity, inclusion, accessibility and continuous improvement.

Inclusive Recruitment and Accessibility

AKG UK is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We welcome applications from candidates with a range of backgrounds, experiences and working styles. Candidates are encouraged to let us know if they require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process. Applicants do not need to meet every desirable criterion to apply; we are interested in relevant skills, potential and values alignment as well as direct experience.

Compliance

It is the responsibility of all staff to abide by organisational policies to ensure compliance with relevant standards e.g. ISO 27001 (Information Security), ISO 9001 (Quality) and ISO 14001 (Environmental) as well as adhering to statutory duties in relation to safeguarding, Prevent and health and safety.

Pay: £34,000.00-£36,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee discount
• Enhanced maternity leave
• Enhanced paternity leave
• Gym membership
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Life insurance
• Paid volunteer time
• Referral programme
• Sick pay

Work Location: In person