About the role
You will be a Healthy Lifestyle Advisor for the Nottinghamshire 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, promoting healthy lifestyles and delivering client‑centred motivational change.
Key Responsibilities
* Deliver informative and engaging one‑to‑one weight management programmes, including healthy eating, behaviour change and exercise, both in the community and virtually via telephone and Zoom groups.
* Deliver evidence‑based education around healthy eating, physical activity and behavioural change in line with ABL Health’s Specialist team and programme curriculums.
* Support clients with a client‑centred, non‑judgemental approach, using positive psychology and motivational interviewing skills.
* Conduct client anthropometric assessments and additional psychological and/or wellbeing assessments.
* Deliver health promotion activities at various localities as required.
* Maintain a caseload of clients, directing them to appropriate lifestyle interventions and monitoring progress throughout their journey with ABL.
* Support the triage process for the Integrated Wellbeing Service, providing expert knowledge when required.
* Contribute to training and support of new staff and volunteers.
* Engage, monitor, and motivate service users using face‑to‑face, website, text, telephone and digital methods.
* Undertake all mandatory and additional skills training as required.
* Work with individuals and groups using SMART goal setting.
* Keep detailed files, recording data accurately, ensuring all forms and documentation are completed correctly and kept up to date in line with ABL policies and procedures.
* Help develop curriculum resources.
* Build community links and partnership working to meet community needs, including new referrals and collaboration with other community assets as directed by the project lead.
* Demonstrate personal and professional development in line with the ethos of lifelong learning.
Skills and Competencies
* Experience implementing and delivering behaviour change interventions within a community health environment.
* Ability to organise own workload, prioritise tasks and meet deadlines, including daily administrative duties.
* Positive and proactive delivery approach, with the ability to motivate, engage and support individuals to achieve targets and positive health outcomes.
* Excellent communication skills, adapting messages to fit audience needs and demonstrating active listening.
* Strong relationship‑building skills, fostering trust and cooperation among clients, colleagues, stakeholders and community leaders.
* Open to new ideas and perspectives.
Working Arrangements
Weekend working is required – the role involves working every Saturday.
Compliance and Policies
* Compliance with GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, and confidentiality of service‑user information.
* Adherence to Health & Safety at Work Act 1974, including risk assessment, reporting incidents and ensuring personal and colleague safety.
* Commitment to safeguarding children, young people and adults, following ABL’s safeguarding policies and local and national laws.
* Smoke‑free workplace.
Equal Opportunities
ABL is an equal opportunities employer and aims to challenge discrimination, promote equality and respect human rights. Sponsorship for this role is not available.
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