Job summary
This
is a fantastic opportunity to join our newly formed Weight Management Interface
Hub Team.
Working
within the Service Delivery Team as a Healthy Weight Advisor within the Weight
Management Interface Hub, you will support adults and families who are
overweight or obese by providing support, guidance and signposting to other
relevant services. Drawing on your experience of helping individuals with
lifestyle modification and signposting/social prescribing, you will contribute
to the overall delivery of the Weight Management Interface Hub service. You
will work closely with and alongside a team of Health Coaches and registered
healthcare professionals; including nurses, dieticians and physiotherapists.
You
will be passionate about working with individuals to begin the life-changing
processes necessary for permanent and continued weight loss and weight
maintenance.
You
will understand challenges and barriers that adults face with relation to their
health (both physical and mental) and wellbeing. You will engage with and build
a good rapport with adults from varying communities across Leeds.
You
will utilise your existing knowledge of weight management approaches to offer
non-clinical wellbeing advice and signposting to other relevant services and
resources.
The
ideal candidate will come from a background in a public facing role, be
confident in conversing with people from varied background and have a detailed
understanding of weight management provision.
Main duties of the job
Service
Delivery
Being part of a wider team that will deliver
our adult weight management support to adult patients
Deliver
evidence-based education and signposting relating to weight management
Support
people with a person centered approach
Working
with individuals using SMART goal setting
Keep
detailed consultation notes, recording data accurately, ensuring all forms and
other documentation is completed correctly
Be
able to organise own workload in order of priority and deadlines, daily
administration tasks and other work-related activities.
Undertake
and complete all mandatory and additional skills training as required
Work
with service users and internal/external stakeholders to co-produce meaningful
session materials
Contribute
to the contract performance by submitting regular case studies to the line
manager
Contribute
to training and support new staff
Relationships
To
attend and actively participate in team meetings, such as MDT
Personal Development
To
demonstrate personal and professional development in line with ethos of
lifelong learning
To
maintain statutory and mandatory training in line with the Leeds GP
Confederation training matrix
Governance
To
work within the Leeds GP Confederation framework of clinical governance in
order to maintain and improve patient care, quality and efficiency
About us
The
Leeds GP Confederation has two purposes:
To be a voice for and represent
General Practice in the Leeds Health and Care System:
A collective voice for General Practice that will be heard
throughout the health and care system
Through representation and active participation in the health
& care system to contribute to the setting of strategy and decision making
To hold contracts to enhance access to healthcare across
Leeds and to provide a range of services to General Practices:
By providing services and holding contracts that directly support
General practice
By having an infrastructure that enables, where appropriate, at
scale working for the benefit of general practice and populations
Inclusive transparent governance
Not-for-profit
For
further information, please go to www.leedsgpconfederation.org.uk
Job description
Job responsibilities
Significant experience
of supporting people make positive lifestyle change
Significant experience
in working with service users with needs arising from being overweight and
obesity
Significant experience
in working with members of the public from varying backgrounds
Significant experience
in a Social Prescribing role or similar
A passion for helping
to reduce health inequalities and supporting disadvantaged groups
Working to tight
contractual deadlines and controls
Job description
Job responsibilities
Significant experience
of supporting people make positive lifestyle change
Significant experience
in working with service users with needs arising from being overweight and
obesity
Significant experience
in working with members of the public from varying backgrounds
Significant experience
in a Social Prescribing role or similar
A passion for helping
to reduce health inequalities and supporting disadvantaged groups
Working to tight
contractual deadlines and controls
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a weight management / lifestyle modification service.
- Experience and ability to demonstrate coping with change.
- Experience of working successfully with a range of stakeholders both internal and external to the organisation.
Desirable
- Experience of working in an NHS or Local Authority organisation.
Skills / Competencies
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and negotiate.
- Experience of working with members of the general public.
- Experience of working with people from seldom heard or disadvantaged population groups.
- Demonstrates good self-awareness , regularly reflecting on personal performance to support continuous growth.
- Working on own initiative to deliver to deadlines.
- IT literacy including word processing, power point and data base with the ability to produce power point presentations as well as reports to stakeholder boards.
- Maintain confidentially when required.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
Desirable
- Experience of using SystmOne (training will be provided if required).
Qualifications
Essential
- Evidence of ongoing professional development in field of expertise (weight management, lifestyle modification, general health, social prescribing).
- Awareness and understanding of key challenges for people that are overweight or obese and strategies to address these.
- In-depth knowledge of evidence-based approaches to supporting people with positive lifestyle modification.
Desirable
- Recent experience in a role where you have directly provided weight management support.
Values/Behaviours
Essential
- Must be willing to adapt working practice to meet changing circumstances and service developments.
- Able to demonstrate personal integrity, energy and resilience.
- Able to deliver competing priorities to time on tight deadlines.
- Capacity to handle conflict.
- Can do attitude.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a weight management / lifestyle modification service.
- Experience and ability to demonstrate coping with change.
- Experience of working successfully with a range of stakeholders both internal and external to the organisation.
Desirable
- Experience of working in an NHS or Local Authority organisation.
Skills / Competencies
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and negotiate.
- Experience of working with members of the general public.
- Experience of working with people from seldom heard or disadvantaged population groups.
- Demonstrates good self-awareness , regularly reflecting on personal performance to support continuous growth.
- Working on own initiative to deliver to deadlines.
- IT literacy including word processing, power point and data base with the ability to produce power point presentations as well as reports to stakeholder boards.
- Maintain confidentially when required.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
Desirable
- Experience of using SystmOne (training will be provided if required).
Qualifications
Essential
- Evidence of ongoing professional development in field of expertise (weight management, lifestyle modification, general health, social prescribing).
- Awareness and understanding of key challenges for people that are overweight or obese and strategies to address these.
- In-depth knowledge of evidence-based approaches to supporting people with positive lifestyle modification.
Desirable
- Recent experience in a role where you have directly provided weight management support.
Values/Behaviours
Essential
- Must be willing to adapt working practice to meet changing circumstances and service developments.
- Able to demonstrate personal integrity, energy and resilience.
- Able to deliver competing priorities to time on tight deadlines.
- Capacity to handle conflict.
- Can do attitude.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
