Physical Activity Specialist- Healthy Lifestyle Advisor

Salary: £21,040- £25,000

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Location: Nottinghamshire

Closing Date: 18th August 2023

Please quote job reference: ABL 432a

You will be a ‘Healthy Lifestyle Advisor’ for Nottinghamshire’s Integrated Wellbeing Service Your Health Your Way, specialising in delivering high quality physical activity and contributing towards getting the residents of Nottinghamshire active through our interventions. You will also be required to deliver on our weight management curriculum communicating the key messages around behaviour change and sustaining a healthy lifestyle.

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.

Some of the essential criteria for the role:

  • Educated to degree level or demonstrable relevant equivalent experience.
  • Qualified to level 3 personal training or equivalent
  • Experience of delivering groups and/or one-to-one behaviour change for adults
  • Excellent written, verbal, and non-verbal communication skills, with the ability to build rapport quickly with people
  • Pro-active approach and ability to work on own initiative.
  • Ability to manage stressful situations and cope in a fast-paced work environment.
  • The ability to travel independently across the organisational footprint.
  • Work flexibly and adapt to suit service need including evening and weekend work as required.

Employee Benefits:

  • Birthday Day off
  • Flexible Annual Leave scheme
  • Employee Referral scheme
  • 37.5 hours working week
  • Flu jabs
  • Blue Light Card
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Leadership and staff away days
  • Training and Development

If you have any questions about the role or would like to discuss the post further, please contact the HR department on 01204 584069 or email recruitment@ablhealth.co.uk.

CVs will not be accepted.