Join us on our journey to empower over a million people to change their behaviours and thrive!

At Thrive Tribe we deliver award-winning healthy lifestyle and wellbeing programmes that make people happier and healthier!

We’re looking for a Health Coach to join our One You East Sussex service. One You East Sussex provides high quality and evidenced based information, advice, and interventions to help people change unhealthy behaviours. The Health Coach team spearhead our frontline work by offering holistic healthy lifestyle assessments.

They will support people to

• lose weight
• stop smoking
• move more
• drink less
• Eat Well

Like all roles at Thrive Tribe, you can expect your time at work to be fun, varied and challenging.

We don’t like to stick to a firm JD as we know from experience that things change throughout the lifetime of a role and it gives our people the chance to play to their strengths.

A typical day as a Health Coach might include:

• Support people to identify healthy lifestyle changes using behaviour change techniques in both face to face and remote style clinics

• Work in partnership to put together a plan using SMART goal setting and micro change resources
  
• Signpost into wider One You East Sussex programmes such as smoke free, Gloji Group and NHS Health Checks as well as to external support services
  
• Manage your caseload, clinic, and appointment times, carrying out caseload reviews with your lead on a regular basis
  
• To ensure that clients have the best customer experience, using reflective practice skills to support CPD. Collect case studies and support social media content.
  
• To be positive and highly motivational when dealing with clients, ensuring you empower them to make a positive lifestyle change and accurately recording their successes when they do.
  
• Organise and keep up to date a record of contact using required systems, ensuring planned follow up contact is made and recorded.
  
• Taking responsibility for your own training and development, that way we can make the biggest impact!
  
• Working with colleagues across all our Thrive Tribe services to contribute to new projects and service developments – we’re always looking to share knowledge and resources!
  
• Ensuring due consideration is given to our Safeguarding, Information Governance and Clinical Governance policies and procedures. To ensure safer recruitment and safeguarding for all we adopt pre-employment processes, including DBS checks
  
• Helping us maintain the ethos of Thrive Tribe by driving our organisational culture forward across our services and using every opportunity to embed our values

About you...

More than anything, we are looking for a team player who puts their heart into their work. We’ve got some core values that run through everything we do, and we’d love it if they resonate with you too!

Be the change

You like helping people. You’ll be working with those who need help the most, empowering them to make positive changes to thrive. 

Be effective

You’re patient and can adapt under pressure. Always happy to make time for other people. And have a great attitude.

Be happy 

You recognise the power of a smile. You value a fun, supportive workplace and want to come to work raring to go (check out our rating on Glassdoor).

Be successful

You are motivated and driven. Happy working solo or as part of a team, you love meeting targets. And will be given opportunities to contribute and develop your career. 

Be big-hearted 

You want to make a difference. Working with a like-minded team of optimistic people, we want the same thing to do meaningful work and change lives.

To work with us in this role you will need to be a positive individual who can empower others in a motivational, yet professional and appropriate manner. You will need strong communication skills, be empathic and have a non- judgemental approach towards others. You will be comfortable with regular face to face sessions with clients, recording and accurately inputting collected data. Some knowledge of basic healthy lifestyle information will be required, and you’ll be comfortable at imparting this with clients. However, we hire based on attitude over traditional skills and experience so if you feel you are right for the role we would love to hear from you!

Perks...

Every person makes Thrive Tribe the incredible place it is to work and play together, we’re unstoppable. Within our buzzing environment our talented people work hard but we ensure lots of fun is thrown in too! We offer you;

• Regular team events and activities, including ThriveFest and our annual Challenge Weekend (for those who want to put their fitness to the test!)
• Flexible working – we’re serious about life/work balance
• Tailored health and wellbeing support such as access to life coaching
• Rewards portal offering discounts on shops, restaurants, and days out
• 23 days holiday (pro rata) increasing every year up to a maximum of 29 days (plus Bank Holidays!)
• And last but not least, a day on us to live by our values!

Contract: 22.5 hours a week – 3 days a week – one day will be based in the Rye area of East Sussex to run a clinic.

The successful candidate will be expected to work on Thursdays and Fridays – the other day to be worked is negotiable.

Salary: Starting at £23,810 with increments up to £25,000 pro rota. 

Closing Date: The closing date for applications is 9am Monday 11^th August 202

Successful applicants will be contacted to outline the next stages of the process.

Interviews are likely to take place on Thursday 21^st August 2025 and will be face to face in Eastbourne.

Location: This job is based in East Sussex, with regular travel across the County (car owner essential) & occasional requirements to attend Thrive Tribe HQ in Stratford.

Please note, the successful applicant will be required to have the right to work in the UK.

Learn more about One You East Sussex: www.oneyoueastsussex.org.uk

Got a question? Contact Mike Church - Health Coach Lead for One You East Sussex on Michael.church@oneyoueastsussex.org.uk.

We believe that every person has the right to thrive at work, which is why we are committed to equal employment opportunity and will not discriminate. Should you require any specific accommodations in the recruitment process please let us know in your application .