Health Advisor

Bupa Insurance Limited; Southend-on-Sea; On-site; GBP 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health insurance provider is seeking a Health Advisor based in Southend. In this full-time role, you will support customers in achieving healthier lifestyles through health assessments and personalized action plans. The ideal candidate should hold a degree in exercise physiology, have customer-facing experience, and the ability to motivate clients towards positive health changes. Benefits include health insurance, holiday, and wellness support.

Benefits

25 days holiday per year

Enhanced pension and life insurance

Access to Digital GP platform

Emotional wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent in exercise physiology/sports science/nutrition essential.
• Experience of performing measurement or assessment in a health and fitness or medical environment would be desirable.
• Ability to motivate customers to make positive health changes.

Responsibilities

• Support the service delivery of Health Assessments to customers.
• Create individual lifestyle action plans using motivational interviewing techniques.
• Carry out clinical testing including body composition analysis and heart rate monitoring.

Skills

Customer facing experience

Empathy

Accuracy in information recording

Ability to build rapport with customers

Education

Degree in exercise physiology/sports science/nutrition

Job description

Job Description:

Health Advisor

Southend, SS1 1AN

Permanent

£27,600 + Fantastic benefits

Full time 40 hours a week

We make health happen

Role Overview

As a Health Advisor with Bupa Clinics, you'll be able to use your training and education to support our customers by providing education on how to Live Longer, Healthier, Happier Lives. Our customers are your priority and you'll spend the majority of your time with them doing what you do best and what you trained for.

You’ll help us make health happen by:

• Support the service delivery of Health Assessments to customers
• Maintain accurate client records and get involved in the end to end process
• Promote and encourage a healthier lifestyle in accordance with Bupa's current clinical policies
• Carry out clinical testing including; body composition analysis, spirometry, heart rate monitoring, gas analysis, diabetes blood test markers, blood pressure measurement, cholesterol profiling, anaemia blood test markers, electrocardiograms, audiometry, functional movement screening.
• Create individual lifestyle action plans using motivational interviewing techniques to promote behaviour change.
• Post assessment calls to support positive change and actions plans.

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent in exercise physiology/sports science/ nutrition essential
• Customer facing experience essential
• Experience of performing measurement or assessment in a health and fitness or medical environment would be desirable
• Accuracy in information recording and working within clinical guidelines
• Ability to build rapport with customers, tailoring your approach to individuals
• Empathy and ability to motivate customers to make positive health changes

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health - from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• Equivalent to 25 days holiday per year, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
• Enhanced pension and life insurance
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
• Option to join dental insurance scheme at a discounted rate
• Access to our Digital GP platform on you mobile
• Emotional wellbeing support
• Access to family mental health line
• Financial wellbeing channels

Why Bupa?

We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to ”Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That's why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

At Bupa we strive to ensure all our of customers, patients and staff are safe. All employees have a duty to ensure that safeguarding children, young people and adults at risk is prioritised and acted on appropriately

If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: [e-mail]

Time Type: Full time

Job Area: Clinical Services

Locations: Clinic - Southend