Healthy Lifestyles Advisor in Weston-super-Mare

If you are enthusiastic about helping people live healthier, happier lives, join our small supportive team as a Healthy Lifestyles Advisor!

We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Healthy Lifestyles Advisor to join our Healthy Lifestyles Service. The service is responsible for supporting and empowering adults to adopt positive lifestyle changes. You’ll support behaviour change focussing on key health improvement topics, to include weight management, eating well, increasing physical activity levels and stopping smoking. Support provided by the service follows evidence-based guidance outlined by OHID, the Chief Medical Officer for England and NICE.

As a signatory of the ‘Why Weight?' Pledge this Service works together to create healthier environments where more people can eat well, feel well and be active. The pledge promotes a compassionate approach to weight and highlights how the conditions in which we are born, grow, live and work can affect our health. We share the understanding that living with obesity is complex and shaped by social, environmental, and economic factors—not just individual choices. We commit to challenge stigma, create supportive environments for all ages and prioritise reducing health inequalities, especially in North Somerset’s deprived and minority communities.

In this role, you will use your specialist knowledge acquired through practical experience or vocational qualifications to support a caseload of clients in community settings across Weston on a 1-1 and group basis.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide information and advice to clients on a range of health improvement subjects in particular weight management, healthy eating (and drinking less alcohol), increasing physical activity levels and smoking cessation.
• Make recommendations for lifestyle changes, setting plans and timescales for implementation including follow up actions to monitor client progress.
• To organise and lead the delivery of 1-1 and group interventions in Weston (Oldmixon and Bournville areas) to include weight management, healthy eating, physical activity and smoking cessation, contributing to the content of sessions and keeping resources and materials up to date.
• Communicate with colleagues and partner agencies to establish referral routes into the service, in particular from groups with poorer health outcomes, those experiencing health inequalities, including from areas in North Somerset with the highest levels of multiple deprivation.
• Maintain an awareness of available services and resources for clients in the local community, build relationships with other services to ably refer the client to that service or resource when appropriate.

Contact Information

For further information about the role, please contact Caroline Bentley, Healthy Lifestyles Team Leader, at: caroline.bentley@n-somerset.gov.uk or 01934 426349.

Healthy Lifestyles Advisor

Company: North Somerset Council

Salary: £28,598 - £31,022

Hours: Part-time

Location: Weston-super-Mare, BS23 1UJ

Working pattern: On-site

Job type: Permanent

Posting date: 25 Aug 2026

Closing date: 24 Sept 2026

Summary

If you are enthusiastic about helping people live healthier, happier lives, join our small supportive team as a Healthy Lifestyles Advisor!

We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Healthy Lifestyles Advisor to join our Healthy Lifestyles Service. The service is responsible for supporting and empowering adults to adopt positive lifestyle changes. You’ll support behaviour change focussing on key health improvement topics, to include weight management, eating well, increasing physical activity levels and stopping smoking. Support provided by the service follows evidence-based guidance outlined by OHID, the Chief Medical Officer for England and NICE.

As a signatory of the ‘Why Weight?' Pledge this Service works together to create healthier environments where more people can eat well, feel well and be active. The pledge promotes a compassionate approach to weight and highlights how the conditions in which we are born, grow, live and work can affect our health. We share the understanding that living with obesity is complex and shaped by social, environmental, and economic factors—not just individual choices. We commit to challenge stigma, create supportive environments for all ages and prioritise reducing health inequalities, especially in North Somerset’s deprived and minority communities.

In this role, you will use your specialist knowledge acquired through practical experience or vocational qualifications to support a caseload of clients in community settings across Weston on a 1-1 and group basis.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide information and advice to clients on a range of health improvement subjects in particular weight management, healthy eating (and drinking less alcohol), increasing physical activity levels and smoking cessation.
• Make recommendations for lifestyle changes, setting plans and timescales for implementation including follow up actions to monitor client progress.
• To organise and lead the delivery of 1-1 and group interventions in Weston (Oldmixon and Bournville areas) to include weight management, healthy eating, physical activity and smoking cessation, contributing to the content of sessions and keeping resources and materials up to date.
• Communicate with colleagues and partner agencies to establish referral routes into the service, in particular from groups with poorer health outcomes, those experiencing health inequalities, including from areas in North Somerset with the highest levels of multiple deprivation.
• Maintain an awareness of available services and resources for clients in the local community, build relationships with other services to ably refer the client to that service or resource when appropriate.

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