Healthy Living Advisor

Job overview

The Healthy Living Advisor role will focus on assessing, planning and delivering healthy living interventions to (inpatient) service users living with Severe Mental Illness (SMI) to enable people to improve their mental and physical health.

This will include physical activity, healthy eating advice, first line weight management advice (under the supervision of a dietitian), smoking cessation and brief interventions on drug and alcohol usage following appropriate training.

This will be delivered through advice and information for service users and staff, training and development for service users and staff, health promotion and physical interventions. The Healthy Living Advisor will encourage service users to access local opportunities and services, signposting people to activities which support health and wellbeing.

*Post also involves travel to the Mount, LS2 9LN and Newsam Centre, LS14 6UH on a weekly basis.

Main duties of the job

• To contribute to the management and prioritisation of the caseload across different sites.
• Support the development of evidence based, appropriate and tailor-made healthy-living based sessions
• Contribute to the implementation of the physical health improvement procedure as part of a robust care plan
• Assist in the development of referral criteria for all relevant care pathways

• To assist in the developments of the healthy living service as appropriate to the post.
• Complete initial health assessments for service users referred into the Healthy Living Service
• Provide advice and guidance on physical activity, healthy eating, first line weight management, smoking cessation, brief interventions for alcohol and activity advice
• Help individuals to develop an ‘action plan’ to change behaviour and motivate the individuals to sustain those behaviours, leading to more healthy choices and actions.
• Participate in activity sessions, healthy living groups and provide advice and training on healthy living to other groups of staff

• Plan and deliver healthy lifestyle interventions to mental health inpatients on both a 1:1 and group basis.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading.

So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the Candidate Guide to Values Based Recruitment. This document provides you with information to help you apply.

We recruit people based on their values and qualifications (where required) and believe that their lived experience is an advantage, this means that together we are as diverse as the communities we care for. Simply put, when we employ caring people who act with integrity and have the right skills, we can give those with mental health challenges, learning disabilities and neurodiversity high-quality care and support to live fulfilling lives, and make our staff feel purposeful, happy and valued.

All our information is available in accessible formats. Please contact the Recruitment team [email protected]

Attached to this advert is our candidates guide to values-based recruitment and supporting guidance on how to make a successful application.

If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Recruitment Team or see the attached candidate guide to reasonable adjustments.