Adult Healthy Lifestyle Practitioner Nottingham

Join us on our journey to empower over a million people to change their behaviours and thrive! At Thrive Tribe we deliver award-winning healthy lifestyle and wellbeing programmes that make people happier and healthier! It’s a super exciting time to join us to deliver our Integrated Health and Wellbeing Service (IHWS) throughout the City of Nottingham, and we’re looking for an Adult Healthy Lifestyle Practitioner to join the team!

Our IHWS programme is designed to support individuals and families to improve their health behaviours and make sustainable changes to their lifestyle. The programme consists of four key services:

• Stop smoking support
• Tailored physical activity programmes
• Adult weight management
• Child/family weight management

Residents across the City of Nottingham will be able to benefit from a variety of our established pathways and products, including Gloji, Move More, Slimming World and MAN v FAT Football.

A typical day as an Adult Healthy Lifestyle Practitioner might include:

• Delivering evidence-based, group interventions covering nutrition, movement, mind, sleep and alcohol, with a focus on behaviour change and weight management.
• Developing and delivering a range of group interventions that focus on supporting clients to increase their physical activity levels.
• Motivating, inspiring and supporting individuals to lose weight, be more active and adopt a healthier lifestyle, through a professional, knowledgeable and empathetic approach.
• Implementing aspects of an individual’s health improvement plan including SMART goal setting, taking into account their risk factors, individual lifestyles and motivations.
• Ensuring an excellent and safe experience for clients, aligning with our internal policies and procedures.
• Supporting referral generation activities to promote the service including outreach and primary/secondary care liaison.
• Accurately recording and monitoring data, including client progression.
• Working with colleagues across all of our Thrive Tribe services to contribute to new projects and service developments.
• Ensuring due consideration is given to Information Governance and Clinical Governance legislation, requirements and guidance.
• Helping us maintain the ethos of Thrive Tribe by driving our organisational culture forward across our services and using every opportunity to embed our values!

About you… More than anything, we are looking for a team player who puts their heart into their work. We’ve got some core values that run through everything we do:

• Be the change: You like helping people. You’ll be working with those who need help the most, empowering them to make positive changes to thrive.
• Be effective: You’re patient and can adapt under pressure. Always happy to make time for other people, and have a great attitude.
• Be happy: You recognise the power of a smile. You value a fun, supportive workplace and want to come to work raring to go.
• Be successful: You are motivated and driven. Happy working solo or as part of a team, you love meeting targets and will be given opportunities to contribute and develop your career.
• Be big-hearted: You want to make a difference. Working with a like-minded team of optimistic people, you want to engage in meaningful work and change lives.

To be considered for this role, you must hold a recognised Level 2 Gym Instructor qualification (or equivalent fitness qualification) and have experience supporting individuals in making healthy lifestyle choices, ideally in group settings, through nutrition, physical activity or health coaching. You will also need to feel confident managing a caseload and have knowledge of behaviour change techniques. Although not essential, we are particularly keen to hear from applicants who are fluent in Polish, Urdu, Arabic and/or Romanian.

Perks… Every person makes Thrive Tribe the incredible place it is to work and play together, we’re unstoppable. We offer you:

• Regular team events and activities, including ThriveFest and our annual Challenge Weekend.
• Flexible working – we’re serious about life/work balance.
• Tailored health and wellbeing support such as access to life coaching.
• Rewards portal offering discounts on shops, restaurants, and days out.
• Enhanced parental leave.
• 23 days holiday, increasing every year up to a maximum of 29 days (plus Bank Holidays!).
• A day on us to live by our values!

Contract: We have 1 x Part-time (22.5 hours) available. This is a permanent position. Salary: Starting at £14,871, rising through annual increments.

Closing Date: The closing date for applications is Thursday 17th September 2026. We reserve the right to close the opportunity early should we receive enough quality applicants. Interviews are likely to take place week commencing on 28th September 2025.

Location: This role is based in the City of Nottingham, with regular travel across the patch. The job will involve some home/office working when not delivering face-to-face sessions. Please note, the successful applicant will be required to have the right to work in the UK and this role does not qualify for any visa sponsorship.

We believe that every person has the right to thrive at work, which is why we are committed to equal employment opportunity and will not discriminate. Should you require any specific accommodations in the recruitment process please let us know in your application.