Job responsibilities
You will be a Healthy Lifestyle Advisor with a focus towards Children and Young people for Nottinghamshires Integrated Wellbeing Service Your Health Notts, delivering nutrition and physical activity support to children, young people and their families.
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 when required.
Your key responsibilities will be:
Deliver ABL Healths family weight management programme including nutrition, behaviour change, and exercise delivery to groups and one-to-ones, in the community and through digital methods such as Zoom/phone appointments.
Implement and deliver ABL Healths healthy lifestyle curriculum to schools across Nottinghamshire.
Provide support and deliver a curriculum of activities to families with toddlers experiencing selective eating across Nottinghamshire.
Deliver nutrition and physical activity education to groups at extra-curricular clubs and events.
Deliver age-appropriate, evidence-based education on nutrition, physical activity, and behaviour change, following guidance from the ABL Health team and aligning with ABL Health programme curriculums.
Deliver support with a client-centred, personalised, and non-judgemental approach using skills of positive psychology and motivational interviewing.
Deliver on all elements of the integrated service including adult weight management, exercise, alcohol reduction, falls prevention, and smoking cessation.
Deliver health promotion activities as and when required at a variety of localities.
Monitor clients progress through regular consultations and monitor those not achieving their goals and identify solutions.
Maintain a case load of clients directing them to a variety of lifestyle interventions and monitoring their progress throughout their journey with ABL.
Conduct client anthropometric assessments and additional psychological and/or wellbeing assessments.
Support families and have the ability to identify and escalate potential safeguarding concerns to the Safeguarding team.
Support the triage process for the Integrated Wellbeing Service, providing expert knowledge as and when required.
Coordinate and procure necessary food and equipment for events and delivery sessions.
Keep detailed files, recording data accurately, ensuring all forms and other documentation are completed correctly.
Work with individuals and groups using SMART goal setting.
Be able to organise own workload in order of priority and deadline dates, daily administration tasks, and other work-related activities.
Work within the framework of clinical governance to maintain and improve patient care, quality, and efficiency.
Engage and recruit potential clients at promotional and community events.
Build community links and partnership working to encourage new referrals into the service and maintain close working relationships with other community services.
Present service and referral pathway information at stakeholder meetings.
Network with community services for potential delivery partnerships.
Attend and actively participate in team and wider company meetings, such as MDT.
Work with the wider multi-disciplinary team to improve and sustain health behaviours e.g., physical activity, healthy eating, alcohol reduction, and smoking cessation.
Contribute to the contract performance report by submitting regular case studies to the project lead.
Contribute to and support ABL Healths social media pages.
Develop curriculum resources to be signed off by the service development team and utilised in projects.
Contribute to ongoing service development needs.
Contribute to training and support new staff and volunteers.
Undertake and complete all mandatory and additional skills training as required.
Demonstrate personal and professional development in line with the ethos of lifelong learning.
Have a thorough understanding of ABL Health policies and procedures.
Be able to travel flexibly across the project area.
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.
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. Consequently, 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.
