Healthy Lifestyle Advisor
| Posting date: | 24 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £21,040.00 to £25,000.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £21040.00 - £25000.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 May 2024 |
| Location: | Mansfield, NG21 0HJ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | E0343-24-0006ABL512c |
Summary
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.