Healthy Lifestyle Advisor

apartmentNHS Jobs placePaignton calendar_month 
You will be a Health Behaviours Advisor focusing on the virtual delivery of Weight Management & Physical Activity for Your Health Torbay (Healthy Behaviours Service) To deliver informative and engaging virtual healthy eating and weight management sessions.
To deliver safe and effective virtual physical activity interventions within the integrated well-being service. To work with adults and families to support, motivate and advise on healthy lifestyles. To deliver healthy behaviour change support in a holistic, personalised, positive and encouraging manner based on the evidence base and service programme curriculums.
As part of a wider multi-disciplinary team, continuously develop methods and resources that improve and sustain healthy behaviours for improved physical activity, healthy eating practices, reduced alcohol intake, and stopping smoking. To maintain a caseload of clients, supporting them to improve their and their familys healthy lifestyle behaviours through accessing a variety of lifestyle interventions and monitoring their progress throughout their journey with ABL.
Be an excellent team player with a willingness to learn and develop. You will be a motivated, passionate, organised and proactive advisor with significant experience in community health programmes. ABL take a strengths-focused, asset-based approach to community delivery, looking to innovate and partner, not replicate existing delivery.
You will be passionate about promoting healthy lifestyles and delivering client-centred motivational change. You will have a background in supporting people to build their confidence and ability to make sustainable health behaviour change that works for their circumstances.
Typically, our staff have backgrounds in nutrition/healthy eating, exercise, alcohol reduction, public health, psychology, community health or weight management. However, we offer a complete training package. We primarily seek people who can work positively and proactively to support, listen, encourage and empower others to make a sustainable healthy lifestyle change in a non-judgemental and person-centred manner.
This is a demanding job, but you will not be on your own. ABLs highly experienced and friendly multi-disciplinary team of Health and Social Care professionals, Business Intelligence, Service Development, Governance, Finance and Business Development are there to support.
Additionally, existing experienced delivery teams and specialist teams will be available to support you in delivering a safe and effective service. Duties and Responsibilities This post will work under the line management of the Integrated Wellbeing Service Project Lead for your designated area.
The role will be varied, challenging, and rewarding as you support and develop the service through implementation, delivery and ongoing innovation and service development. Key responsibilities will be: Deliver ABL Healths virtual one-to-one weight management programmes, including healthy eating, behaviour change and exercise delivery to groups of adults online.
Deliver evidence-based education around healthy eating, physical activity and behavioural change as advised by ABL Healths Specialist team and in line with ABL Healths programme curriculums. Deliver support to a client-centred non-judgemental approach using skills of positive psychology and motivational interviewing.
Conduct client anthropometric assessments and additional psychological and/or well-being assessments. To maintain a caseload of clients, directing them to various lifestyle interventions and monitoring their progress throughout their journey with ABL.
Support the triage process for the Integrated Wellbeing Service, providing expert knowledge as and when required. Contribute to training and support of new staff and volunteers. Engage, monitor, and motivate service users using, website, text, telephone and digital methods.
Undertake and complete all mandatory and additional skills training, as required. Working with individuals and groups using SMART goal setting. Keep detailed files, recording data accurately, ensuring all forms and other documentation is completed correctly and up to date in line with ABL policies and procedures.
Have a thorough understanding of ABL Health policies and procedures. Develop curriculum resources to be signed off by the specialist teams and utilised in projects. Contribute to ongoing service development needs. To organise workload in order of priority and deadline dates, daily administration tasks and other work-related activities.
To attend and actively participate in team and wider company meetings. To demonstrate personal and professional development in line with the ethos of lifelong learning. To work within the clinical governance framework to maintain and improve patient care, quality, and efficiency.

To travel flexibly across the project area as and when required. This will be on rare occasions for the virtual role.

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