Salary: £26,500 per year
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (including evenings and occasional weekends to meet service need)
Location: Gloucestershire
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 1st September 2026
Please quote job reference: ABL 916
Gloucestershire Healthy Lifestyles Service:
Commissioned by Gloucestershire County Council, the Gloucestershire Healthy Lifestyle Service provides evidence-based support to help residents stop smoking, achieve a healthy weight, become more active, reduce alcohol consumption, and improve wellbeing. Alongside these core services, the Healthy Beginnings programme provides specialist support for families during pregnancy and early parenthood.
Healthy Beginnings is a specialist public health programme supporting families from pregnancy until a child’s second birthday. The programme recognises that pregnancy and the first two years of life provide a unique opportunity to improve lifelong health outcomes for both parents and children. Through evidence-based health coaching and behaviour change support, Healthy Beginnings empowers families to make informed, sustainable lifestyle choices. Healthy Beginnings delivers three core areas of support: • Smoking cessation support for pregnant people, their partners and families, and households with children under two years of age. • Healthy weight maintenance support during pregnancy through personalised nutrition advice, healthy eating education and physical activity sessions. • A holistic package of postnatal support to help families make healthy lifestyle choices, including infant feeding, introducing solid foods, oral health, healthy eating, physical activity and reducing social isolation through connection. Running throughout every aspect of the programme is a commitment to reducing health inequalities and giving every child the healthiest beginning possible. Working alongside maternity services, Family Hubs, health visitors, primary care and community organisations, the programme ensures support is accessible, inclusive and tailored to the needs of local families.
Role purpose:
As a Healthy Beginnings Specialist Coach you will deliver specialist health coaching across the three core Healthy Beginnings pathways: smoking cessation, healthy weight in pregnancy and healthy postnatal living. Using evidence-based behaviour change techniques, you will empower families to make sustainable lifestyle changes that improve maternal, infant and family health outcomes while helping to reduce health inequalities.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
The successful candidate will deliver the Healthy Beginnings programme through one-to-one appointments, group sessions and digital platforms, providing specialist coaching across pathways including smoking cessation for pregnant people, their partners and families, as well as households with children under two. The role will involve supporting healthy weight maintenance during pregnancy through nutrition education, healthy eating advice and physical activity sessions, alongside postnatal healthy lifestyle support covering infant feeding, introducing solid foods, oral health, healthy eating, physical activity and reducing social isolation. The postholder will use motivational interviewing, health coaching, positive psychology and SMART goal setting to support sustainable behaviour change, develop personalised support plans and monitor progress against agreed outcomes. Building trusting, compassionate and person-centred relationships with families will be central to the role, alongside recognising and appropriately escalating safeguarding concerns. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with maternity services, Family Hubs, health visitors, primary care and community partners, promote the service and represent ABL Health at stakeholder meetings and community events. They will maintain accurate and confidential records, contribute to audits, evaluation, contract reporting and continuous improvement, and support co-production with families and stakeholders to develop the service. The role requires a professional, flexible and organised approach, with the ability to manage workload effectively, travel independently across Gloucestershire and work occasional evenings and weekends where required.
Employee Benefits:
- Birthday Day off
- Flexible Annual Leave scheme
- Employee Referral scheme
- 37.5 hours working week
- Flu jabs
- Blue Light Card
- Cycle to work scheme
- Leadership and staff away days
- Training and Development
Please note that we are not able to offer sponsorship for this role