Job responsibilities
You will be a Healthy Lifestyle Advisor for Nottinghamshires Integrated Wellbeing Service Your Health Notts, 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 (both in the community and virtually via telephone and zoom groups)
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.
Help develop curriculum resources
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 demonstrate personal and professional development in line with ethos of lifelong learning.
Weekend working: This role requires working every Saturday.
Skills and Competencies Required
Experience of implementing and delivering behaviour change interventions within a community health environment.
To be able to organise own workload in order of priority and deadline dates, daily administration tasks and other work-related activities.
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.
Please note that we are not able to offer sponsorship for this role
