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Health & Wellbeing Manager

We are on a mission to be the partner of choice for developing people and their communities. Reed Wellbeing is a public service provider delivering lifestyle and wellbeing programmes that help people improve their health.

Pay Range

£35,000 to £46,000

Job Description

Do you pride yourself on your ability to lead and motivate a team?

Consider the role of a Health & Wellbeing Manager at Reed Wellbeing!

Please note: This is a remote working role with regular travel required to Stoke-on-Trent. Therefore, the ideal candidate should reside within close proximity to this area.

Internal applications for this role close on 21/07/2025

This role is a Fixed Term Contract for a 10-month period.

What the job is about:

The Health & Wellbeing Manager is directly responsible and accountable for the effective delivery of one or more National Diabetes Prevention Programmes across a geographical area. This involves ensuring that the service provided meets or exceeds commissioner performance expectations, are delivered within agreed budget and to agreed quality standards.

The role will be responsible for promoting Reed Wellbeing services to achieve participant referral profiles through the organisation of service promotion activities and the development of effective local stakeholder relationships. The role will manage service delivery, effectively planning and co-ordinating resources and monitor and quality assuring services to ensure they are delivered to the highest standards within contractual and budgetary requirements.

Just some of your day-to-day responsibilities will include

• Leadership & Team Management

Health & Wellbeing Managers will lead and manage a dynamic team of self-employed Health & Wellbeing Coaches, providing strong leadership, co-ordination, planning and support that motivates and inspires the team to take ownership for and to deliver high impact, high quality lifestyle and wellbeing services.

• Performance Management and Delivery

Health & Wellbeing Managers effectively promote and manage their programme(s) through effective planning, co-ordinating and monitoring of performance, quality and cost effectiveness of all elements of the service provision. Health & Wellbeing

• Business Growth and Relationship & Stakeholder Management

Health & Wellbeing Managers will proactively seek to grow the Reed Wellbeing business. They will build and maintain effective stakeholder relationships with local commissioning bodies, referral organisations and local complimentary services.

What's in it for you:

Alongside a generous base salary, and great flexibility with your working schedule, we offer training, development and progression opportunities. All travel for sessions will be reimbursed, and you will have access to the full range of Reed Wellbeing benefits, which include:

• 25 days annual leave (pro-rata for part time)
• Reed Pension Scheme
• Award Winning Management & Leadership training
• Professional & Personal Development Funds
• Bi-annual pay reviews
• Plus much more

With the chance to dramatically make a difference to the local community, this role offers immense job satisfaction.

Where possible we consider applications from candidates that require part-time hours, please discuss with your Talent Partner if this is something you require.

Essential Criteria

• Proven ability to lead, manage, motivate and develop a team of staff delivering a responsive, customer focused professional service.
• Proven ability to build relationships and influence others.
• Ability to implement business objectives and closely monitor achievement of targets.
• Strong planning and organisational skills, with the ability to set objectives, prioritise and provide sound judgement and decision-making.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Customer orientated and committed to continually improving the quality and effectiveness of service delivery.
• Experience of delivering services within a quality assurance and governance framework.
• Proven ability to work on your own initiative and work effectively as part of a team
• Proven ability to use Microsoft Word, Excel and database software programmes.

Desirable Criteria

• Demonstrable experience of remote management of teams.
• Experience of successful delivery of complex public service contracts.
• Fluency in community languages. Community languages may include Cantonese, Mandarin, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Somali, Vietnamese, Dari, Yoruba, Turkish, French, Spanish, Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Farsi, Guajarati, Polish, Serbian and Greek (dependent on location of service delivery).

We aim to ensure that no candidate or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria.

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