First Aid for Your Gut

Functional nutrition coach

We are recruiting for this role right now. All consultations are online, so you can work from wherever you are based. Read on to see what we are looking for and how to apply.

Would you like to put your knowledge of food to work and make a real difference for people with gut issues? As a functional nutrition coach you work with clients who want to focus specifically on food, and with clients who are following a programme with one of our practitioners, where you provide the nutritional support. You work with us as a self-employed coach. In time we also want to offer the option of an employed position.

The role

As a functional nutrition coach you guide clients in adjusting their food and lifestyle. There are two situations:

Clients who come to us specifically for guidance on food and lifestyle.
Clients following a programme with one of our practitioners, where you provide practical nutritional support.

In both cases you help clients make dietary changes practical and doable. You take personal preferences, intolerances and allergies into account, and you think along with their specific situation: from a busy mother to a dedicated athlete or someone who travels a lot for work.

What will you be doing?

You guide clients step by step in adjusting their food and lifestyle, so they feel supported.
You work closely with our practitioners within wider recovery programmes.
You make advice practical and tangible with recipes, shopping lists and useful product tips.
You always look at the personal situation: from a busy mother to a dedicated athlete or someone who travels a lot.
You make sure changes not only work, but can also be kept up.

What are we looking for?

You have completed a training as a nutrition coach, health coach or nutritional therapist with an orthomolecular or functional focus.
You understand how food influences gut issues, and you can work with food intolerance testing.
You help clients adjust their food and lifestyle in a way that suits them.
You work practically and with solutions in mind, so clients can take steps forward straight away.
You are fluent in English and comfortable working online.

About us

We are a fast growing organisation that helps people with gut issues and chronic bowel disease ease their symptoms and recover. We do this with food, lifestyle, supplements and specialised lab testing, grounded in orthomolecular and functional nutrition.

Our mission: to teach people how to take back control of their health, so they can live the way they want, without their gut deciding what is possible.

What can you find with us?

You start with us as a self-employed coach. In time we also want to offer the option of an employed position.
You are fully focused on your work as a coach. Everything on the business side is arranged by us.
You work flexibly: you plan online consultations at times you agree with your clients.
You are part of a warm team, with peer supervision and team days that you can also join online.
You get continuing professional development to deepen your knowledge and stay up to date.
You can grow into a senior coach, guiding and supporting junior colleagues.

Does this sound like you?

With us you become part of an organisation that thinks big and works together warmly. You work independently in your field, but you are never on your own. You are always surrounded by colleagues who, like you, are committed and want to help people truly move forward.

Would you like to become our new colleague? We would love to meet you. Our application process has three steps.

How applying works

Your application video and CV. Record a short video in which you introduce yourself and answer the questions below, and send it to us together with your CV or resume.
A conversation. If your video speaks to us, we invite you for an online conversation so we can properly get to know each other.
Three case studies. You work through three real client cases. That shows us how you think clinically and where your knowledge stands, and we talk them through together afterwards.

The questions we would like you to answer

Who are you? Tell us a little about yourself.
Why do you do this work? What drives you?
Why do you want to work with us in particular?
What experience do you bring?
Where do you see yourself in two or three years, in your work or in your life?
Can you describe a situation in which you helped a client stick with a difficult change in food or lifestyle? How did you go about it?
What has been a challenge in your own life or work, and how did you deal with it?
How do you keep your knowledge up to date and keep developing in your field?

Send your video and your CV or resume to hello@firstaidforyourgut.com. A link works just as well as a file: an unlisted YouTube video, Loom, Google Drive or WeTransfer are all fine. Prefer WhatsApp? Send it to +31 85 2004 345 (save the number in your phone first).

We look forward to hearing your story and finding out whether we can build something good together. So do not hesitate, send it in, and perhaps we will speak soon. You will always get a personal reply.

Please note: applications without a video are not taken into consideration.