Healthy Lifestyle Advisor

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will be a Healthy Lifestyle Advisor for Nottinghamshires Integrated Wellbeing Service Your Health Your Way, delivering nutrition and physical activity sessions.

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:

Deliver informative and engaging one-to-one weight management programmes including healthy eating, behaviour change and exercise delivery to groups of adults in the community.

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.

Conduct client anthropometric assessments and additional psychological and/or wellbeing assessments.

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.

Contribute to training and support of new staff and volunteers.

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.

Have a thorough understanding of ABL Health policies and procedures.

To engage and recruit potential clients at promotional and community events.

Develop curriculum resources to be signed off by the specialist teams and utilised in projects.

Contribute to ongoing service development needs.

To be able to organise own workload in order of priority and deadline dates, daily administration tasks and other work-related activities.

To maintain a case load of clients & support them to improve their lifestyle through accessing a variety of lifestyle interventions.

Build community links and partnership working to encourage the service to develop specific to community needs including new referrals into the service, partner work with other community assets as directed by the project lead.

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 demonstrate personal and professional development in line with ethos of lifelong learning.

To work within the framework of clinical governance to maintain and improve patient care, quality and efficiency.

Skills and Competencies Required

Experience of implementing and delivering behaviour change interventions within a community health environment.

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 adapts the message to fit the needs of the audience with excellent listening skills and positive approach.

Build strong relationships; Foster trust and cooperation among clients, colleagues, stakeholders and community leaders, to develop and sustain personal contact in order to benefit health and wellbeing of the people of Nottinghamshire.

Value and remain open to new ideas and perspectives.

Please note that we are not able to offer sponsorship for this role

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to degree level or relevant equivalent experience.
• CIMSPA (previously REPS) qualified Level 2 Gym instructor/Group exercise award 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 in exercise, psychology, public health, other health related field.

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).
• 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 children's 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 working with hard-to-reach groups and tackling health inequalities.
• Previous paid or voluntary experience working with people.

Desirable

• Experience of delivering groups and/or one-to-one weight management interventions to children, young people, and adults.
• 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.

Job Specific Requirements

Essential

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

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

ABL Health Ltd

Address

Unit 7, Birch House

Ransom Wood Business Park

Mansfield

Nottinghamshire

NG21 0HJ

Employer's website

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