Job summary
ABL Health and
Nottinghamshire County Council are partnering to deliver an Integrated
Wellbeing Service across Nottinghamshire called Your Health Notts. This
transformative service will play a central role in system change, bringing
previously separate lifestyle behaviour change services together into one holistic
service. It seeks to work collaboratively with communities to support the
transformation of services for the local population. The service will provide
integrated behaviour support for smoking cessation, weight management, alcohol
reduction, physical activity and falls prevention, all embedded in sustainable
behaviour change and positive wellbeing.
Main duties of the job
As a member of the ABL Health team, you will deliver engaging, evidence-based one-to-one and group weight management and healthy lifestyle programmes for adults, both in the community and virtually via telephone and Zoom. You will provide guidance on healthy eating, physical activity, and behaviour change using a client-centred, non-judgemental approach with motivational interviewing and positive psychology techniques. The role includes conducting anthropometric and wellbeing assessments, maintaining a case load of clients, monitoring their progress, and supporting the Integrated Wellbeing Service triage process. You will contribute to training new staff and volunteers, develop curriculum resources, deliver health promotion activities across local communities, and build partnerships to increase service reach. Accurate record-keeping, SMART goal-setting, ongoing personal development, and weekend working every Saturday are integral to the role.
About us
ABL
is an exciting fast-paced, growing community health organisation. As an
experienced, CQC registered, provider of community health services, we are
passionate about delivering evidence based, innovative, effective, and relevant
health care services in partnership with individuals, communities and
stakeholders
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be a Healthy Lifestyle Advisor for Nottinghamshires Integrated Wellbeing Service Your Health Notts, delivering 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be a Healthy Lifestyle Advisor for Nottinghamshires Integrated Wellbeing Service Your Health Notts, delivering 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.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- 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.
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team.
- 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.
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or demonstrable relevant equivalent experience.
- 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 OR in exercise, psychology, public health, other health related field.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- 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.
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team.
- 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.
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or demonstrable relevant equivalent experience.
- 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 OR in exercise, psychology, public health, other health related field.
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.
