Healthy Lifestyle Advisor

Job description

Job responsibilities

Your Health Torbay (Healthy Behaviours Service) overview

ABL Health delivers the Healthy Behaviours Service titled Your Health Torbay, commissioned by Torbay Council. This transformative service will play a central role in improving the health and well-being of residents of Torbay. The service will provide integrated behaviour support to help people move more, drink less alcohol, stop smoking and lose weight. The service will also offer advice and guidance and proactively signpost to relevant organisations. All of this is embedded in sustainable behaviour change and positive well-being.

Role Purpose:

You will be a Health Behaviours Advisor focusing on the delivery of Weight Management & Physical Activity for Your Health Torbay (Healthy Behaviours Service)

• To deliver informative and engaging healthy eating and weight management sessions.
• To deliver safe and effective physical activity interventions within the integrated well-being service.
• To work with adults and families to support, motivate and advise on healthy lifestyles.
• To deliver healthy behaviour change support in a holistic, personalised, positive and encouraging manner based on the evidence base and service programme curriculums.
• As part of a wider multi-disciplinary team, continuously develop methods and resources that improve and sustain healthy behaviours for improved physical activity, healthy eating practices, reduced alcohol intake, and stopping smoking.
• To maintain a caseload of clients, supporting them to improve their and their familys healthy lifestyle behaviours through accessing a variety of lifestyle interventions and monitoring their progress throughout their journey with ABL.
• Be an excellent team player with a willingness to learn and develop.

You will be a motivated, passionate, organised and proactive advisor with significant experience in community health programmes. ABL take a strengths-focused, asset-based approach to community delivery, looking to innovate and partner, not replicate existing delivery. You will be passionate about promoting healthy lifestyles and delivering client-centred motivational change. You will have a background in supporting people to build their confidence and ability to make sustainable health behaviour change that works for their circumstances. Typically, our staff have backgrounds in nutrition/healthy eating, exercise, alcohol reduction, public health, psychology, community health or weight management. However, we offer a complete training package. We primarily seek people who can work positively and proactively to support, listen, encourage and empower others to make a sustainable healthy lifestyle change in a non-judgemental and person-centred manner.

This is a demanding job, but you will not be on your own. ABLs highly experienced and friendly multi-disciplinary team of Health and Social Care professionals, Business Intelligence, Service Development, Governance, Finance and Business Development are there to support. Additionally, existing experienced delivery teams and specialist teams will be available to support you in delivering a safe and effective service.

Duties and Responsibilities

This post will work under the line management of the Head of Service for your designated area. The role will be varied, challenging, and rewarding as you support and develop the service through implementation, delivery and ongoing innovation and service development.

Key responsibilities will be:

• Deliver ABL Healths weight management programmes, including healthy eating, behaviour change and exercise delivery to groups of adults.
• 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 to a client-centred non-judgemental approach using skills of positive psychology and motivational interviewing.
• Conduct client anthropometric assessments and additional psychological and/or well-being assessments.
• To maintain a caseload of clients, directing them to various 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.
• Contribute to training and support of new staff and volunteers.
• Engage, monitor, and motivate service users using, 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.
• Have a thorough understanding of ABL Health policies and procedures.
• Develop curriculum resources to be signed off by the specialist teams and utilised in projects.
• Contribute to ongoing service development needs.
• To organise 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 demonstrate personal and professional development in line with the ethos of lifelong learning.
• To work within the clinical governance framework to maintain and improve patient care, quality, and efficiency.
• To travel flexibly across the project area as and when required.

Skills and Competencies Required

• Be an experienced health coach in a community health environment, assisting and delivering on interventions such as physical activity, healthy eating, weight management, alcohol reduction and smoking cessation, behaviour change, well-being, and health promotion activities.
• Experience of implementing and delivering behaviour change interventions.
• Positive and proactive in your delivery approach with the ability to motivate, engage and support individuals to achieve their targets and positive health outcomes.
• Adept in communication; A strong communicator who understands the needs of specific groups in the community and adapts the message to fit the needs of the target audiences with excellent listening skills and a non-judgmental and positive approach.
• Build strong relationships; Foster trust and cooperation among service users, colleagues, stakeholders and community leaders.
• Value and remain open to new ideas and perspectives.

The desire to make a difference

We want to change lives and improve the well-being of the people in Torbay.

Standard Information

Information Governance

Employees of ABL Health must comply with the provisions of GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. The postholder must not; either during the course of their employment, or following termination of their employment, disclose any information relating to service users or employees, or of the lawful business practices, of the organisation.

The postholder will be required, when and where appropriate to the role, to comply with the processing of requests under the Freedom of Information Act 2000

The postholder must comply with ABLs policies that protect the information assets of the organisation from unauthorised disclosure, modification, destruction, inappropriate access or use. The postholder will be responsible for maintaining the clinical and/or corporate records that fall within the remit of this role to the standards in ABLs records management policies, and data quality processes and standards.

Health & Safety

Compliance with the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 the postholder is required to fulfil a proactive role towards the management of risk in all of their actions. This entails the risk assessment of all situations, the taking of appropriate actions and reporting of all incidents, near misses and hazards, and a statutory duty of care for their own personal safety and that of others who may be affected by their acts or omissions.

Safeguarding is Everyones Business

ABL has a responsibility to ensure that all children / young people and adults are adequately safeguarded and protected. As a consequence, all ABLs employees, temporary staff and volunteers are required to adhere to ABLs safeguarding policies / procedures in addition to local and national safeguarding policies and to act upon any concerns in accordance with them.

Smoke Free

ABL is Smoke - Free. Smoking is not permitted on any of our premises or the surrounding land including car parking facilities.

Training

The postholder must attend any training that is identified as mandatory to their role.

The range of duties and responsibilities outlined above are indicative only and are intended to give an overview of the range and type of duties that will be allocated. They are subject to modification in the light of changing service demands and the development requirements of the postholder.

Equality, Diversity & Human Rights

It is the responsibility of every person to act in ways to support equality and diversity and to respect human rights, working within the spirit and detail of legislation including the Equality Act 2010 and the Human Rights Act 1998. ABL is an equal opportunities employer and aims to challenge discrimination, promote equality and respect human rights.

Person Specification

Job Specific Requirements

Essential

• The ability to travel to meet with the team as and when required on rare occasions such as team building days/extremely important team/service events
• Work flexibly and adapt to suit service need including evening and weekend work as required.
• Must be willing to undertake an Enhanced DBS check.

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to degree level or demonstrable relevant equivalent experience.
• REPS qualified Level 2 Gym instructor/Group exercise award or equivalent (or willingness to obtain within 2 months of starting in the post).

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.

Experience

Essential

• Experience in delivering groups and/or one-to-one behaviour change for adults.
• Experience in delivering health promotion / public health interventions in community settings.
• Experience working with hard-to-reach groups and tackling health inequalities.
• Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Previous paid or voluntary experience working with people.
• Good understanding of health and care pathways and population health management.

Desirable

• Experience of delivering groups and/or one-to-one weight management interventions and smoking cessation.
• 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 families and health inclusion / vulnerable / inequality groups.
• Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Experience of contributing to the supervision of staff/ volunteers/ students / peer mentors
• Experience of developing public health educational materials
• Experience of delivering programmes to health inclusion groups together with community groups/influencers

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.

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

Offices G15 & G16, Torbay Business Centre, Lymington Road

Torbay

TQ1 4BD

Employer's website

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