Healthy Lifestyle Advisor

ABL Health Ltd

The closing date is 12 May 2025

Job summary

ABL Health and Nottinghamshire County Council are partnering to deliver an Integrated Wellbeing Service across Nottinghamshire called Your Health Your Way. 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

Your key responsibilities will include delivering informative and engaging one-to-one weight management programmes for adults, covering healthy eating, behaviour change, and exercise, as well as providing safe, personalised advice to children, young people, and families. You will deliver evidence-based education on healthy lifestyles, following ABL Healths programme curriculums, using a client-centred, non-judgemental approach that incorporates positive psychology and motivational interviewing techniques. Responsibilities also involve conducting anthropometric and wellbeing assessments, supporting the triage process for the Integrated Wellbeing Service, and maintaining an active caseload by monitoring and motivating clients through a range of methods, including face-to-face, digital, and telephone support. You will deliver health promotion activities, contribute to training new staff and volunteers, accurately record client data, and uphold ABL Healths policies and procedures. Additional duties include developing and utilising curriculum resources, supporting ongoing service development, building community links to encourage new referrals, working collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to improve health behaviours, and maintaining a high standard of personal and professional development in line with clinical governance frameworks. You will also be expected to organise your workload effectively and contribute to team and company meetings.

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.

Date posted

28 April 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£25,000 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

E0343-25-0012abl759

Job locations

Suite 1, The Willows Ransom Wood Business Park

Mansfield

NG21 0HJ

Job description

Job responsibilities

Role Purpose:

You will be a Healthy Lifestyle Advisor for Nottinghamshires Integrated Wellbeing Service Your Health Your Way, 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 in the community.

Deliver safe personalised, age appropriate, one-to-one and group healthy eating, behaviour change and physical activity advice to children, young people and families.

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.

Have a thorough understanding of ABL Health policies and procedures.

To engage and recruit potential clients at promotional and community events.

Develop curriculum resources to be signed off by the specialist teams and utilised in projects.

Contribute to ongoing service development needs.

To be able to organise own workload in order of priority and deadline dates, daily administration tasks and other work-related activities.

To maintain a case load of clients & support them to improve their lifestyle through accessing a variety of lifestyle interventions.

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 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 demonstrate personal and professional development in line with ethos of lifelong learning.

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 Nottinghamshire.

Value and remain open to new ideas and perspectives.