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Location Montague House, Montague Place, Brighton, BN2 1JS
Basis Fixed Hours
Job profile for Work and Health Coach
Work and Health Coach
Montague House, Montague Place, Brighton, BN2 1JS 09/08/2026
The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.
Job details
Salary £34,434 – £39,152 Contractual hours 37 Basis Fixed Hours Package We are pleased to offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your wellbeing. You can read about them on our Why work for us pages. Date posted 19/06/2026 Job reference REQ0001132 Attachments 4948.Jun26.Work and Health Coach.JDPS.pdf Work and Health Coach Shortlisting Questions Template11.docx
Job description
Contract type: This role is fixed term until 31 March 2029.
Interviews to be held: Monday 17 August 2026/Tuesday 18 th August/Thursday 20 August
There is full information about the role below and attached but, if you would like an informal discussion, please contact Lisa Mitchell – Skills and Partnership Manager on 07562 437840 or email Lisa.Mitchell@brighton-hove.gov.uk
About the role
Are you passionate about supporting people to address health-related barriers impacting wellbeing and current or future employment?
Are you skilled at building trust, motivating and developing co-produced realistic and achievable plans?
Can you work proactively with individuals, employers and health, wellbeing and employment partners to unblock challenges and create opportunities?
If so read on to find out more.
We’re looking for a Work and Health Coach to join our WorkWell Programme, supporting residents with health conditions or barriers that affect their ability to access, return to, or thrive in work.
You’ll deliver tailored, person-centred support, to build confidence, improve wellbeing, and take practical steps towards sustainable employment. Managing a caseload, you’ll coach participants through their journey using strengths-based behaviour-change approaches, connecting and supporting them to access relevant and helpful services.
This is a rewarding opportunity to make a direct impact — helping people improve both their health and employment outcomes.
You will:
- Have experience supporting people with health-related barriers into employment or improved wellbeing
- Use a person-centred, trauma-informed approach to build trust and engagement
- Be confident delivering coaching and behaviour change support
- Be able to assess needs, set goals, and develop practical action plans
- Have knowledge of employment support, health systems or local services (or the ability to develop this quickly)
- Ideally hold a relevant Level 3 qualification (or equivalent experience)
Most importantly, you’ll be motivated to help people recognise their potential and take meaningful steps towards their future.
Encouraging a diverse workforce
Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it’s what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.
Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).
Why work for us?
As a council, we want to:
- be connected
- be confident
- be innovative and creative
- be diverse and inclusive
- be healthy and psychologically safe
For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us which gives details of our wellbeing support, our benefits including leave and pensions as well as details of our training and development.
Additional information
Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.
Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.
We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.
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