Health And Wellbeing Advisor, Nottingham

We have an excellent opportunity for a Health and Wellbeing Advisor to join a leading CQC registered provider of Community Health Services in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.

About the company
Our client is a fast-paced, growing community health organisation committed to delivering evidenced based, innovative, effective and relevant health care services and are a values driven organisation dedicated to reducing health inequalities and improving people’s lives.

About the role
As a Health and Wellbeing Advisor, you will deliver nutrition and physical activity sessions to support the transformation of services for the local population including integrated behaviour support for smoking cessation, weight management, alcohol reduction, physical activity and falls prevention, sustainable behaviour change and positive wellbeing.

Your responsibilities will include: Deliver informative and engaging one-to-one weight management programmes including healthy eating, behaviour change and exercise delivery to groups of adults in the community Deliver safe personalised, age appropriate, one-to-one and group healthy eating, behaviour change and physical activity advice to children, young people and families Deliver evidence-based education around healthy eating, physical activity and behavioural change Deliver support with a client centred non-judgemental approach using skills of positive psychology and motivational interviewing Conduct client anthropometric assessments and additional psychological and/or wellbeing assessments Deliver health promotion activities and provide expert knowledge as and when required Engage, monitor, and motivate service users utilising the face-to-face, website, text, telephone and digital methods Work 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 Engage and recruit potential clients at promotional and community events Develop curriculum resources to be signed off by the specialist teams and utilised in projects Maintain a case load of clients & support them to improve their lifestyle through accessing a variety of lifestyle interventions Build community links and partnership Work with the wider multi-disciplinary team to improve and sustain health behaviours e.g., physical activity, healthy eating, alcohol reduction and smoking cessation Work within the framework of clinical governance to maintain and improve patient care, quality and efficiency

About you
As a Health and Wellbeing Advisor, a background in nutrition, weight management, exercise, alcohol reduction, falls prevention or smoking cessation would be advantageous but is not essential as a full in-house training package will be provided.

To be successful in the role of Health and Wellbeing Advisor you must have / be: Educated to degree level or demonstrate relevant equivalent experience Previous experience of delivering groups and/or one-to-one behaviour change for adults Experience of delivering health promotion / public health interventions in community settings Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team Previous paid or voluntary experience working with people Excellent communication skills, with the ability to build rapport quickly with people Excellent administration, record keeping and data collection skills IT literate, efficient using Microsoft Office (MS Word, Excel, Outlook) Excellent time management and organisational skills Have a high attention to detail and a pro-active approach and ability to work on own initiative Be able to travel independently across the organisational footprint Work flexibly and adapt to suit service need including evening and weekend work as required Must be willing to undertake an Enhanced DBS check

About the rewards
For the role of Health and Wellbeing Advisor there is a competitive salary on offer of £23,000 per annum.