Healthier Lifestyles Team Public Health Nutrition Lead

Job responsibilities

• To support the development, co-ordination, and implementation of the Targeted Healthy Lifestyle Service in line with the local regional and country wide agendas around obesity prevention; designed to promote healthier lifestyles for Nottingham City’s Children, aged 0-4 years and their families at high risk of developing obesity leading to poor health outcomes.
• To ensure the delivery of high quality and evidence based Public Health programmes and interventions in line with local and national guidance, best practice and the efficient use of resources.
• To plan and organise, co-ordination and implementation of training packages/programmes; designed specifically for professionals.
• To up-skill professionals with motivational and behaviour change training techniques to overcome the barriers for the prevention of behaviour change in families with complex needs requiring sensitive and skilled support to facilitate development of a healthier lifestyle.
• To teach and inform the public and health professionals about diet and nutrition. To aim to promote good health and prevent disease in individuals and communities. To provide information about food and healthy eating via clinical supervision and support for the Healthy Lifestyles Team (Service).

• Provide expert Public Health knowledge and information to enhance the well-being and development of Children aged 0-4 years and their families at high risk of developing obesity.
• To provide Public Health information and support structures for partnership project work with local agencies such as the Local Authority, our commissioners, SSBC, community and voluntary groups.
• To facilitate Public Health group work and community based health needs assessments ensuring the robust auditing, monitoring and evaluation of these initiatives, enabling population health management.
• To lead on specific programmes of care for Children under 4 years old using clinical field of expertise to assess situations and facilitate appropriate action to ensure families are supported to achieve positive outcomes in relation to healthy weight and a healthier lifestyle.

To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team sometimes without direct supervision, reporting back to the Children’s Public Health 0-19 Nursing Service caseload holder.

The post holder will:

• Work in partnership with the Healthy Lifestyles manager to enable the launch, implementation and delivery of the new Healthy Lifestyles service.
• Work in partnership with the Healthy Lifestyle Manager to support recruitment and orientation of staff into the new service.
• Requirement to work in a cost effective manner, maintain stock security and control.
• Deliver specialist health promotion within own clinical expertise and capacity to children aged 0 -4 years old and their families in a variety of community and virtual settings.
• Organise own workload and complete delegated work effectively without supervision.
• Ensure excellent communication for joined up working with partner agencies to ensure our Public Health promotion matches current local, regional, and country wide Public Health agendas.
• Lead on the development of robust auditing and evaluation of pathways to enable the provision of a high quality, evidence based Healthy Lifestyle service offer.

Undertake other duties as may be required for maintenance of an effective and efficient service provision

Quality and performance

• Clinically support Children aged 0-4 and their families with more complex needs utilising expert knowledge and skills for a targeted service offer; this may include a workload for more complex cases.
• Maintain accurate patient records in compliance with CityCare policy using electronic record keeping systems, eg SystmOne.
•  Deliver, within clinical expertise and capacity, health promotion to children aged 0 - 4 years old and their families in a variety of community and virtual settings.
•  Working with other members of the Healthy Lifestyles service to ensure that activities contribute to delivery of the new service objectives.
•  Networking within the Nottingham City area to identify professionals, organisations, voluntary and community groups involved in healthy weight and healthy nutrition activities and working in partnership to build community capacity to encourage healthier lifestyles in the city.
• Participating in relevant steering groups
• Developing mechanisms to work with hard-to-reach groups.
• Collecting accurate data as required by Nottingham CityCare Partnership, Healthy Lifestyles Service.
•  Preparing and presenting monitoring and evaluation reports as required.

Professional Practice and Skills

•  To ensure up to date CPD in line with the requirements of the Association for Nutrition remit and work towards registration. Maintaining professional affiliation / registration.
•  Working within local codes of conduct and within public health nutrition/dietician strategies and policy directives.
•  Being professionally accountable and responsible for all aspects of own workload.
•  To prepare reports, under supervision for safeguarding purposes.
•  Participating in audit, evaluation and any research required.
• A commitment to continuing professional development, including the undertaking of relevant formal and informal postgraduate training and collection of evidence of competency to practice.
•  Participating in individual performance reviews.
• Ensuring that public health nutrition work meets clinical governance guidelines.
•  Compliance with CityCare policies, procedures and statutory regulations.
•  Ensuring that Risk Assessments are undertaken and adhered to.
•  Maintain accurate diary in accordance with lone working policy and adhere to mobile working guidance

Knowledge, training and experience

•  Contribute to the provision of high-quality expert knowledge and up to date evidence-based materials to contribute to the development and inform policies, pathways, and SOPS for use across the Healthy Lifestyle Service staffing team.
•  Coordinate, develop and organisation delivery of evidence-based training on nutrition for a healthy weight and a healthier lifestyle, incorporating the provision of relevant educational materials, resources, audit and evaluation.
•  Co-develop, organise and deliver on the training programmes of other health professionals, students, community and voluntary workers.
•  Supporting the training of nutrition and dietetic students during their community placements.
• Utilising expert motivational and negotiating skills to facilitate behavioural change.

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

• Ability to teach and inform the public and health professionals about diet and nutrition. Promote good health and prevent disease in individuals and communities. Educating individuals and groups.
• Support policy development to shape nutritional advice and guidelines for individuals and communities
• Able to co-ordinate skill mix teams
• Able to work effectively in a team, supporting others and challenging colleagues views and attitudes when necessary
• Able to develop supportive, trusting and respectful relationships
• Able assess a situation, set priorities and problem solve quickly and effectively
• Previous experience of leadership on the development and organisation for the delivery of evidence-based training on nutrition for a healthy weight and a healthier lifestyle, incorporating the provision of relevant educational materials, resources, audit and evaluation.
• Knowledge and research within own field to be able to consult with and advise the wider workforce
• Exceptional communication, facilitative and motivating skills, able to communicate clearly and succinctly both verbally and in writing. Ability to relate to and communicate with and engage Children, Young People & parents/Carers.
• Able to manage strong emotions, sensitive issues and undertake courageous conversations.
• Highly reflective and able to learn from experiences.
• Willingness to prepare for and engage in clinical and managerial supervision.
• Able to use computers and programmes (read excel spread sheets etc.), competently to be able to record in a persons confidential health record, create reports, collect data, use email, write letters etc.
• Able to use computers and programmes to develop resources to support the public health promotion i.e. leaflets, newsletters and videos.
• Able to analyse numerical data and input data for report writing and use the data to inform & improve population health management and practice.

Desirable

• Previous experience in the use of electronic heath care records; especially SystmOne
• Awareness of local and national health agendas
• Experience of working in a skill mix team
• Evidence of developing practice
• Evidence of audit evaluation/research
• Self-efficacy theory
• Behaviour change theory
• Knowledge of Parent, Child and Adolescent Mental Health
• Motivational and promotional Interviewing experience
• Knowledge and skills in maintaining social media pages to promote the Public Health services within own field of expertise.

Qualifications

Essential

• Nutritionist (ANutr) Association for Nutrition; qualified nutrition professional to degree level food, nutrition science and or public health.
• Working within codes of practice and professional guidelines.

Desirable

• Demonstrable experience of degree-level, evidence-based practice in a specialist area of nutrition competency
• Evidence of further professional development within own field
• Public Health qualification, for example post graduation certificate or above.

Experience

Essential

• Evidence of leadership experience or qualification
• Evidence of working with diverse or disadvantaged groups
• Evidence of experience of project work using a multi-agency approach
• Evidence/experience of working in partnership with multiagency partners; providing expert Public Health information and support structures for partnership project work

Desirable

• Evidence of leading and delivering health promotion activities to individuals and groups
• Experience of working parents /carers, children, families and young people
• Experience of clinical supervision
• Evidence or working with safeguarding children and vulnerable adults
• Experience working in specialist role within a related health care field delivering on high quality public health initiatives.
• Experience of clinically supporting Children and families with more complex needs utilising expert skills and knowledge

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).