Healthy Lifestyle Advisor in Mansfield

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

• Your key responsibilities will include delivering ABL Health's family weight management programme through group and one-to-one sessions in the community and via digital platforms.
• You will implement healthy lifestyle education in schools, support families with toddlers experiencing selective eating, and deliver nutrition and physical activity sessions in various settings.
• The role requires a non-judgemental, client-focused approach, using motivational interviewing and evidence-based guidance.
• You will contribute across all integrated services, including adult weight management, alcohol reduction, falls prevention, and smoking cessation, while managing caseloads, monitoring client progress, and conducting assessments.
• Additional duties include supporting safeguarding processes, coordinating resources, maintaining accurate records, and promoting SMART goal setting.
• You’ll also engage in community outreach, stakeholder meetings, service development, and social media support.
• Ongoing responsibilities include attending team meetings, contributing to performance reports, developing resources, supporting new staff, completing required training, and travelling flexibly across the project area.

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 responsibilities

• You will be a Healthy Lifestyle Advisor with a focus towards Children and Young people for Nottinghamshire's Integrated Wellbeing Service Your Health Notts, delivering nutrition and physical activity support to children, young people and their families.
• 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 when required.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Deliver ABL Health's family weight management programme including nutrition, behaviour change, and exercise delivery to groups and one-to-ones, in the community and through digital methods such as Zoom/phone appointments.
• Implement and deliver ABL Health's healthy lifestyle curriculum to schools across Nottinghamshire.
• Provide support and deliver a curriculum of activities to families with toddlers experiencing selective eating across Nottinghamshire.
• Deliver nutrition and physical activity education to groups at extra-curricular clubs and events.
• Deliver age-appropriate, evidence-based education on nutrition, physical activity, and behaviour change, following guidance from the ABL Health team and aligning with ABL Health programme curriculums.
• Deliver support with a client-centred, personalised, and non-judgemental approach using skills of positive psychology and motivational interviewing.
• Deliver on all elements of the integrated service including adult weight management, exercise, alcohol reduction, falls prevention, and smoking cessation.
• Deliver health promotion activities as and when required at a variety of localities.
• Monitor clients' progress through regular consultations and monitor those not achieving their goals and identify solutions.
• Maintain a case load of clients directing them to a variety of lifestyle interventions and monitoring their progress throughout their journey with ABL.
• Conduct client anthropometric assessments and additional psychological and/or wellbeing assessments.
• Support families and have the ability to identify and escalate potential safeguarding concerns to the Safeguarding team.
• Support the triage process for the Integrated Wellbeing Service, providing expert knowledge as and when required.
• Coordinate and procure necessary food and equipment for events and delivery sessions.
• Keep detailed files, recording data accurately, ensuring all forms and other documentation are completed correctly.
• Work with individuals and groups using SMART goal setting.
• Be able to organise own workload in order of priority and deadline dates, daily administration tasks, and other work-related activities.
• Work within the framework of clinical governance to maintain and improve patient care, quality, and efficiency.
• Engage and recruit potential clients at promotional and community events.
• Build community links and partnership working to encourage new referrals into the service and maintain close working relationships with other community services.
• Present service and referral pathway information at stakeholder meetings.
• Network with community services for potential delivery partnerships.
• Attend and actively participate in team and wider company meetings, such as MDT.
• Work with the wider multi-disciplinary team to improve and sustain health behaviours e.g., physical activity, healthy eating, alcohol reduction, and smoking cessation.
• Contribute to the contract performance report by submitting regular case studies to the project lead.
• Contribute to and support ABL Health's social media pages.
• Develop curriculum resources to be signed off by the service development team and utilised in projects.
• Contribute to ongoing service development needs.
• Contribute to training and support new staff and volunteers.
• Undertake and complete all mandatory and additional skills training as required.
• Demonstrate personal and professional development in line with the ethos of lifelong learning.
• Have a thorough understanding of ABL Health policies and procedures.
• Be able to travel flexibly across the project area.

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.

Person Specification

• Requires full UK driving licence and access to own vehicle.
• Excellent written, verbal, and non-verbal communication skills, with the ability to build rapport quickly with people.
• Excellent administration, record keeping and data collection skills.
• Knowledge of children's safeguarding and child protection issues and processes.
• Experience of delivering parenting programmes.
• Experience of contributing to the supervision of staff/ volunteers/ students.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or demonstrable relevant equivalent experience.
• CIMSPA (previously REPS) qualified Level 2 Gym instructor/Group exercise award or equivalent.
• 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 in exercise, psychology, public health, other health related field.

Experience

• Experience of working with Children and Young People in an age-appropriate and engaging manner.
• Experience of delivering health promotion / public health interventions in community settings.
• Experience working with hard-to-reach groups and tackling health inequalities.
• Experience of building professional relationships.
• 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.

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.