Feel Advisor

Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Councils

• Address: Endeavour House, 8 Russell Road, Ipswich, Suffolk IP1 2BX
• Salary: £31,537 - £36,363 per annum (pro rata for part time)
• Hours: Full-time, 37 hours per week
• Contract: Fixed Term or Secondment opportunity for 18 months

This role is open to full time, part time, and job share applications, all of which will be assessed equally.

Join our team

We are looking for a Feel Good Suffolk Advisor to join our Communities Team
. If you share our values and are motivated to make a difference for our residents, clients, and communities, we would love to hear from you.

Feel Good Suffolk (FGS) supports people to make positive changes to their health and wellbeing, including losing weight, giving up smoking, and becoming more active. It is designed to provide a choice of services close to people, at the right time to support steady and lasting improvements to people’s health. Delivered as a partnership between Public Health, local authorities, and partners across the health, leisure, voluntary, community, faith, and social enterprise sectors, FGS provides local opportunities for people looking to improve their health, based around a core provision of Weight Management, Smoking Cessation, and Physical Activity services.

Our holistic and person‑centred approach will ensure all aspects of health relevant to the client are considered and supported.

As one of our team of FGS Advisors, you will provide holistic health and wellbeing support to clients accessing the FGS service. You will primarily be based in the community with some remote/office working, and travel across the district to provide face‑to‑face services as well as providing client support over the phone.

• Provide triage and assessment of clients accessing the FGS service.
• Deliver behaviour change interventions and techniques based around Smoking Cessation, Physical Activity and Weight Management as required.
• Motivate and empower clients to make behaviour changes, conducting assessments and creating a personal action plan to improve their health.
• Use Health Coaching techniques to deliver face‑to‑face, digital, and over‑the‑phone 1:1 and group interventions.
• Develop and co‑produce action plans to provide personalised support to individuals, their families and carers.
• Deliver group and one‑to‑one smoking cessation support, coordinating the use of Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) where necessary and delivering sessions using a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) approach.
• Work closely and forge strong links with partners across the locality to refer and signpost clients to suitable support, including local authorities, the integrated care board, primary/secondary care, leisure providers and Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise organisations.
• Complete touch‑point assessments and evaluations of clients to monitor progress, recording data in a case management system and reporting on outcomes as required.
• Contribute to measurement of change and improvement in health behaviours using relevant outcome measures.
• Equip people with the knowledge, skills and confidence to access information and support via a digital front door, where they can find resources and information to self‑manage their health behaviours.
• Work closely with colleagues across the county as part of the FGS team to ensure collaborative and efficient working.
• Attend community events and complete outreach across the districts.

• We are looking for a passionate and motivational person to join our Feel Good Suffolk Team.
• You will likely have worked in local government, health or voluntary sectors and have gained experience of supporting members of the community with their health and wellbeing.
• With experience of supporting people to access local services, you will have a good understanding of community health issues and the strengths and barriers faced by residents.
• You will have a caring nature, empathy and understanding to work with and support individuals from a variety of backgrounds and differing levels of support needs.

• Understanding of barriers to healthy…