Project Lead (Child Weight Management) in Mansfield

The Child Weight Management Project Lead role is to provide leadership and operational support to the Child Weight Management Specialist Service and Single Point of Access. The postholder will be accountable for driving programme delivery and achieving agreed outcomes and will contribute to service growth. Where required, the role will also include a delivery element to provide cover for team absence.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will play a key role in leading the planning, development, implementation and coordination of the service, working closely with the SPOA Coordinator to support the day-to-day running of the Single Point of Access and Specialist Child Weight Management programme. Responsibilities include acting as a central point of contact for delivery staff, coordinating staffing and session cover, overseeing staff performance through 1:1s and PDPs, and driving service improvement through KPI monitoring, data analysis, and performance reporting. The role will involve liaising with stakeholders and system partners, managing patient flow and outcomes, ensuring data quality through regular audits, and contributing to clinical governance and service development. In addition, the post holder will support financial processes, venue coordination, staff training, and project reporting. Alongside managerial duties, the role includes hands-on delivery of safe, personalised, and age-appropriate interventions to children, young people, and families, including exercise sessions, behaviour change support, and physical activity advice. The post holder will also be responsible for session planning, client engagement and follow-up, monitoring progress against targets, supporting curriculum development, attending community events to promote the service, and providing delivery cover where required to ensure a high-quality, consistent service.

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

ABL Health has been commissioned to deliver a high-quality Single Point of Access and Tier 2 Plus Specialist Child Weight Management Service. The Project Lead will support the service development and day-to-day operational management. This is a leadership post, with real scope to influence operational performance and service quality. With support from the Head of Service, the postholder will take a proactive role in line managing staff. The multidisciplinary team includes a GP, Head of Service, therapists, a nutritionist, counselling specialists, and administrators. You will provide management support, contribute to MDT meetings, supervise and support service delivery, lead clinics, and support group education and intervention sessions. The role also includes developing resources and supporting staff training.

Managerial

• Provide a leadership role in service planning, development, implementation, and coordination of the Service.
• Work with SPOA Coordinator in the day-to-day running of the Single Point of Access and Specialist Child Weight Management programme.
• Act as a point of contact for delivery staff queries.
• Assemble and coordinate staff to facilitate delivery: oversee staff calendars; liaise with the admin team, and coordinate staff to provide session cover when necessary.
• Lead on developing certain areas of the programme according to the service plan.
• Accountable for tracking and achieving service KPIs.
• Undertake service observations and provide valuable performance-driven feedback.
• Support line management of staff by performing staff 1:1s and PDPs.
• Oversee and monitor stakeholder activity and targets across all areas – liaise with stakeholder staff regularly, track performance according to service KPIs, and work with the management team to set targets to improve performance.
• Undertake data preparation and analysis as requested by management and attend key monthly meetings for internal and external performance board.
• Work with system partners and stakeholders to design, deliver and evaluate the service engagement.
• Track and manage patient flow and outcomes through the system, as requested by the Operations Team Lead to put actions in place for those who are not progressing as they should.
• Coordinate booking, risk assessment and use of various delivery venues.
• Support financial duties, including processing staff expenses and invoices relating to the project.
• Lead on updating data where completeness is an issue.
• Audit data quality to ensure that patient data is up to date and identify issues with data completeness and validity.
• Contribute to clinical governance procedures.
• Constantly monitor and report on progress of the project, presenting reports defining progress, problems and solutions.
• Contribute to training and support of new staff and volunteers.

Delivery

• Deliver safe personalised, age-appropriate, one-to-one group exercise interventions, behaviour change and physical activity advice to children, young people, and families.
• Prepare and set up venues in a safe manner.
• Have a thorough understanding of the curriculum/teaching resources and be confident in their delivery.
• Plan sessions, including preparing the correct handouts, materials and equipment.
• Discuss weight loss or gain with clients.
• Monitor weekly weight loss or gain and attendance against set targets.
• Make client contact calls to ensure attendance, and chase non-attendance.
• Support a team of staff to deliver a quality-driven service spanning a range of interventions within the specialist services and partner working within the IWS.
• Engage and recruit potential clients at promotional and community events.
• Cover delivery where necessary.

Qualifications

• Degree (or equivalent experience) in the health-related field: e.g. Nutrition, Fitness, Dietetics, Nursing, Public Health.
• Registered with Association for Nutrition (AFN) as a Registered Associate Nutritionist (ANutr).
• Masters Degree in relevant field.
• REPS qualified Level 3 award of GP/Exercise Referral or equivalent (willingness to be trained within 4 months of starting).

Experience

• In-depth experience delivering weight management and physical activity to specialist populations including children and young people in both a 1-to-1 and group settings.
• Demonstrable experience of administrative, leadership and reporting.
• Delivery/management experience e.g., weight management behaviour change.
• Relevant experience in working with families and/or young people in a community/hospital setting.
• Knowledge and experience of engaging priority groups in a healthcare setting.
• Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Demonstrable experience of leading and managing teams in a health, public health, or community setting.
• Experience of staff supervision, appraisal, and performance management.
• Experience of engaging key external stakeholders from a wide range of specialisms.
• Experience of planning and delivering appropriate health interventions specific to individual requirements.
• Experience of delivering engagement and commissioning activities.

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.