Healthy Lifestyle Advisor

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will be a Healthy Lifestyle Advisor for Stockports Integrated Lifestyle Service Your Health Stockport, specialising in delivering high quality physical activity and contributing towards getting the residents of Stockport active through our interventions. You will also be required to deliver on our weight management curriculum communicating the key messages around behaviour change and sustaining a healthy lifestyle.

You will be a motivated, passionate, organised, and proactive advisor, with 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, brief alcohol advice 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.

Your key responsibilities will be:

Delivering group exercises in line with weight management protocols whilst adhering to NICE guidelines.

Deliver ABL Healths adult/family weight management programme including nutrition, behaviour change and exercise delivery to groups and though one-to-ones, in the community.

Lead on the delivery of client centred assessments

Deliver evidence-based education around nutrition, physical activity and behavioural change as advised by ABL Health team and in line with ABL Health programme curriculums.

Deliver programmes with a client centred approach using skills of positive psychology and motivational interviewing

To maintain a case load of clients directing them to a variety of lifestyle interventions and monitoring their progress throughout their journey with ABL.

Carrying out administrative duties and recording accurate data in line with the appropriate policies and procedures.

Keeping up to date with knowledge and qualifications to ensure each client is following evidence-based methods to achieve their goals of weight loss and improved health.

Maintaining an approachable and empathetic nature whilst dealing with vulnerable people and helping them towards a better life.

Contribute towards the development of resource as part of continuous service development.

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.

To be able to organise own 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 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 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 Oldham.

Value and remain open to new ideas and perspectives.

Please note that we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to degree level or demonstrable 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 OR in exercise, psychology, public health, other health related field.
• Qualified to level 3 personal training or equivalent CIMSPA (previously REPS)

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.
• Previous paid or voluntary experience working with people.

Desirable

• 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.

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

Europa Business Park, Bird Hall Lane

Stockport

SK3 0XA

Employer's website

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