Job summary
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.
Main duties of the job
1. 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.
2. Deliver safe personalised, age appropriate, one-to-one and group healthy eating, behaviour change and physical activity advice to children, young people and families.
3. Deliver support with a client centred non-judgemental approach using skills of positive psychology and motivational interviewing.
4. Deliver health promotion activities as and when required at a variety of localities.
About us
ABL is an exciting fast-paced, growing communityhealth organisation. As an experienced, CQC registered, provider of communityhealth services, we are passionate about delivering evidence based, innovative,effective and relevant health care services in partnership with individuals,communities and stakeholders.
We are a values drivenorganisation, dedicated to reducing health inequalities and improving peopleslives. We would love to hear from you if you would like the opportunity to workwith in a close team of committed professionals and you share our values ofdesigning and delivering health services.
Job description
Job responsibilities
5. 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.
6. Have a thorough understanding of ABL Health policies and procedures.
7. To engage and recruit potential clients at promotional and community events.
8. Develop curriculum resources to be signed off by the specialist teams and utilised in projects.
9. Contribute to ongoing service development needs.
10. To be able to organise own workload in order of priority and deadline dates, daily administration tasks and other work-related activities.
11. To maintain a case load of clients & support them to improve their lifestyle through accessing a variety of lifestyle interventions.
12. Build community links and partnership working to encourage the service to develop specific to community needs including new referrals into the service, partner work with other community assets as directed by the project lead.
13. To attend and actively participate in team and wider company meetings.
14. To work with the wider multi-disciplinary team to improve and sustain health behaviours, physical activity, healthy eating, alcohol reduction and smoking cessation.
15. To demonstrate personal and professional development in line with ethos of lifelong learning.
16. To work within the framework of clinical governance to maintain and improve patient care, quality and efficiency.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
17. Educated to degree level or relevant equivalent experience.
18. CIMSPA (previously REPS) qualified Level 2 Gym instructor/Group exercise award or equivalent.
Desirable
19. Sports Coaching qualification.
20. Degree in nutrition and/or eligible to be registered as an associate or full member of the UK Voluntary Register of Nutritionists/ or degree in exercise, psychology, public health, other health related field.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
21. Excellent written, verbal, and non-verbal communication skills, with the ability to build rapport quickly with people.
22. Excellent administration, record keeping and data collection skills.
23. IT literate, efficient using Microsoft Office (MS Word, Excel, Outlook).
24. Ability to manage stressful situations and cope in a fast-paced work environment.
25. To cope with unpredictable work patterns and work well under pressure.
26. To be able to work as part of a team and independently as required.
27. Willingness to learn and innovate.
Desirable
28. Knowledge of children's safeguarding and child protection issues and processes.
29. Experience of delivering parenting programmes.
30. Experience of contributing to the supervision of staff/ volunteers/ students.
31. Experience of developing public health educational materials.
Experience
Essential
32. Experience working with hard-to-reach groups and tackling health inequalities.
33. Previous paid or voluntary experience working with people.
Desirable
34. Experience of delivering groups and/or one-to-one weight management interventions to children, young people, and adults.
35. Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team.
36. Experience of planning and delivering appropriate health interventions specific to individual requirements.
37. Experience of delivering healthy lifestyle interventions to children and young people.
Job Specific Requirements
Essential
38. The ability to travel independently across the organisational footprint.
39. Work flexibly and adapt to suit service need including evening and occasional weekend work as required.
40. Must be willing to undertake an Enhanced DBS check.