Healthy Lifestyle Advisor CYP

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.

As a Healthy Lifestyle Advisor with ABL Health, youll deliver our family weight management and healthy lifestyle programmes across Nottinghamshire, supporting children, families, and adults to make positive, sustainable behaviour changes. Youll lead engaging sessions in schools, community settings, and online, covering nutrition, physical activity, and behaviour change, while also contributing to wider wellbeing services such as adult weight management, smoking cessation, alcohol reduction, and falls prevention.

Youll work closely with clients to set SMART goals, monitor progress, and provide non-judgemental, motivational support. The role also involves safeguarding awareness, accurate record keeping, and collaboration with the wider multidisciplinary team to ensure the highest standards of care. Youll help promote ABL Healths services at community events, build local partnerships, and contribute to programme development and improvement. A flexible approach and willingness to travel across the project area are essential.

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.

You will be a Healthy Lifestyle Advisor with a focus towards Children and Young people for Nottingham shires Integrated Wellbeing Service Your Health Notts, delivering nutrition and physical activity support to children, young people and their families.

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 our clients on their journey to a sustainable healthy lifestyle change and you will be required to deliver on all elements of the integrated service when required.

Your key responsibilities will be:

Deliver ABL Healths family weight management programme including nutrition, behaviour change, and exercise delivery to groups and one-to-ones, in the community and through digital methods such as Zoom/phone appointments.

Implement and deliver ABL Healths healthy lifestyle curriculum to schools across Nottinghamshire.

Provide support and deliver a curriculum of activities to families with toddlers experiencing selective eating across Nottinghamshire.

Deliver nutrition and physical activity education to groups at extra-curricular clubs and events.

Deliver age-appropriate, evidence-based education on nutrition, physical activity, and behaviour change, following guidance from the ABL Health team and aligning with ABL Health programme curriculums.

Deliver support with a client-centred, personalised, and non-judgemental approach using skills of positive psychology and motivational interviewing.

Deliver on all elements of the integrated service including adult weight management, exercise, alcohol reduction, falls prevention, and smoking cessation.

Deliver health promotion activities as and when required at a variety of localities.

Monitor clients progress through regular consultations and monitor those not achieving their goals and identify solutions.

Maintain a case load of clients directing them to a variety of lifestyle interventions and monitoring their progress throughout their journey with ABL.

Conduct client anthropometric assessments and additional psychological and/or wellbeing assessments.

Support families and have the ability to identify and escalate potential safeguarding concerns to the Safeguarding team.

Support the triage process for the Integrated Wellbeing Service, providing expert knowledge as and when required.

Coordinate and procure necessary food and equipment for events and delivery sessions.

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