Physical Activity Specialist, Healthy Lifestyle Advisor

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will be a motivated, passionate, organised, and proactive advisor, with significant experience working in community health programmes. You will be passionate about promoting healthy lifestyles and delivering motivational change which is client centred. You will have a background in supporting people to build their confidence and ability to make sustainable healthy behaviour changes which works for their personal circumstances.

Our team have working backgrounds in nutrition, weight management, exercise, alcohol reduction, falls prevention and smoking cessation. We offer you a full in-house training package to help you support our clients on their journey to a sustainable healthy lifestyle change and you will be required to deliver on all elements of the integrated service.

Your key responsibilities will be:

Delivering group exercises in line with weight management protocols whilst adhering to NICE guidelines.

Maintain a dedication to ongoing support around Physical Activity including onward referral pathways post intervention.

Prescribing GP referral exercise programmes 1:1, taking into consideration individual comorbidities, exercise history and other health considerations.

Taking ownership of a client caseload, tracking their individual progress ensuring their care is followed up on a regular basis and adapted where necessary.

Carrying out administrative duties and recording accurate data in line with the appropriate policies and procedures.

Liaising with GPs and other relevant healthcare professionals to ensure the best possible client care.

Keeping up to date with knowledge and qualifications to ensure each client is following evidence-based methods to achieve their goals of weight loss and improved health.

Maintaining an approachable and empathetic nature whilst dealing with vulnerable people and helping them towards a better life.

Working with children and young people through a weight loss intervention prescribing exercise programmes and nutrition guidance. Working both in a school setting and a community setting following a specific 12-week curriculum in line with NICE guidelines.

Delivering the Falls Prevention programme and carrying out all the administrative duties, risk assessments and client reviews attached to it.

Contribute towards the development of resource as part of continuous service development.

Deliver ongoing resource material for the YHYW app to provide clients with up to date, evidence-based information around nutrition, physical activity, smoking and alcohol..

Contribute to the 1:1 and group virtual delivery across all ABL interventions as and when necessary.

Offer support to the ABL central team, delivering on our virtual offer across the various interventions

Deliver safe personalised, age appropriate, one-to-one and group healthy eating, behaviour change and physical activity advice to children, young people and families.

Deliver evidence-based education around healthy eating, physical activity and behavioural change as advised by ABL Healths Specialist team and in line with ABL Healths programme curriculums.

Deliver support with a client centred non-judgemental approach using skills of positive psychology and motivational interviewing.

• Deliver health promotion activities as and when required at a variety of localities.
• To maintain a case load of clients directing them to a variety of lifestyle interventions and monitoring their progress throughout their journey with ABL.
• Support the triage process for the Integrated Wellbeing Service, providing expert knowledge as and when required.
• Engage, monitor, and motivate service users utilising the face-to-face, website, text, telephone and digital methods.
• Undertake and complete all mandatory and additional skills training, as required.
• Working with individuals and groups using SMART goal setting.
• Keep detailed files, recording data accurately, ensuring all forms and other documentation is completed correctly and up to date in line with ABL policies and procedures.
• To be able to organise own workload in order of priority and deadline dates, daily administration tasks and other work-related activities.
• To attend and actively participate in team and wider company meetings.
• To work with the wider multi-disciplinary team to improve and sustain health behaviours e.g., physical activity, healthy eating, alcohol reduction and smoking cessation.
• To work within the framework of clinical governance to maintain and improve patient care, quality and efficiency.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• - Educated to degree level or demonstrable relevant equivalent experience.
• - Qualified to level 3 personal training or equivalent

Desirable

• - Sports Coaching qualification.
• - Degree in nutrition and/or eligible to be registered as an associate or full member of the UK Voluntary Register of Nutritionists/ or degree OR in exercise, psychology, public health, other health related field.
• - Completed the National Centre for Smoking Cessation free eLearning modules https://www.ncsct.co.uk/pub_training.php
• REPS qualified Level 2 Gym instructor/Group exercise award or equivalent

Job Specific Requirements

Essential

• - The ability to travel independently across the organisational footprint.
• -Work flexibly and adapt to suit service need including evening and weekend work as required.
• Must be willing to undertake an Enhanced DBS check

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• - Excellent written, verbal, and non-verbal communication skills, with the ability to build rapport quickly with people.
• - Excellent administration, record keeping and data collection skills.
• IT literate, efficient using Microsoft Office (MS Word, Excel, Outlook).
• - Excellent time management and organisational skills.
• Must have a high attention to detail.
• - Pro-active approach and ability to work on own initiative.
• - Ability to manage stressful situations and cope in a fast-paced work environment.
• - To cope with unpredictable work patterns and work well under pressure.
• - To be able to work as part of a team and independently as required
• - Willingness to learn and innovate.

Desirable

• - Knowledge of childrens safeguarding and child protection issues and processes
• - Experience of delivering parenting programmes
• - Experience of contributing to the supervision of staff/ volunteers/ students
• - Experience of developing public health educational materials

Experience

Essential

• - Experience in researching key nutritional information to remain up to date with relevant literature
• - Experience of delivering groups and/or one-to-one behaviour change for adults.
• - Experience of delivering health promotion / public health interventions in community settings.
• - Experience working with hard-to-reach groups and tackling health inequalities.
• - Previous paid or voluntary experience working with people.

Desirable

• - Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team.
• - Experience of planning and delivering appropriate health interventions specific to individual requirements.
• - Experience of delivering healthy lifestyle interventions to children and young people.
• - Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

ABL Health Ltd

Address

Suite 1, The Willows

Ransom Wood Business Park

Mansfield

NG21 0HJ

Employer's website

https://www.ablhealth.co.uk/work-for-us/join-our-team/ (Opens in a new tab)