Healthy Lifestyle Advisor

Location: Nottinghamshire (Office based in Mansfield)

Salary: A GBP 25,000 per annum

Hours: 37.5 hours per week, including weekly Saturday shift

Vacancy Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 30th of June 2026

Nottinghamshire Integrated Wellbeing Service (IWS) overview:

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.

Role Purpose:

You will be a Healthy Lifestyle Advisor for Nottinghamshire's Integrated Wellbeing Service Your Health Notts, delivering nutrition and physical activity sessions. 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 your clients on their journey to a sustainable healthy lifestyle change and you will be required to deliver on all elements of the integrated service.

Key Duties And Responsibilities:

• The successful candidate will deliver engaging, evidence-based weight management programmes to adults both in community settings and virtually, supporting individuals through healthy eating guidance, physical activity promotion, behaviour change techniques, and exercise delivery.
• Working with a client-centred, non-judgemental approach, you will utilise motivational interviewing and positive psychology to empower service users to achieve sustainable lifestyle changes, including the use of SMART goal setting.
• Responsibilities include:
• Conducting anthropometric and wellbeing assessments
• Managing and monitoring a caseload
• Supporting triage within the Integrated Wellbeing Service
• Directing clients to appropriate lifestyle interventions while tracking their progress
• Deliver health promotion activities across a range of localities
• Contribute to training and supporting new staff and volunteers
• Develop curriculum resources
• Build strong community partnerships to increase referrals and meet local needs
• Accurate data recording and administration in line with organisational policies
• Engage with service users through face-to-face and digital methods
• Completion of mandatory training
• Commitment to ongoing professional development

Weekend working is required, including working every Saturday. The ideal candidate will have experience delivering behaviour change interventions within a community health setting, demonstrate excellent communication and organisational skills, be proactive and motivating in their approach, and have the ability to build strong, collaborative relationships with clients, colleagues, and community partners while remaining open to new ideas and perspectives.

Some Of The Essential Criteria For The Role:

• Educated to degree level or demonstrable relevant equivalent experience.
• Experience of delivering groups and/or one-to-one behaviour change for adults.
• REPS qualified Level 2 Gym instructor/Group exercise.