# Healthy Living Advisor > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/healthy-living-advisor/98298de9-d460-4c68-ae39-377d1d2b4416 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/healthy-living-advisor/98298de9-d460-4c68-ae39-377d1d2b4416.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Ward 5 Newsam, Complex Psychosis Pathway - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Salary:** £28,392 - £31,157 pa - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-01T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-18T15:50:42.987Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/West_Yorkshire/Leeds/Leeds_York_Partnership_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Complex_Psychosis_Pathway/Complex_Psychosis_Pathway-v8238812 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8238812?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you interested in mental health, reducing health inequalities and supporting people to make changes towards a healthier lifestyle? If so this could be the post for you. This is an exciting opportunity to facilitate healthy living initiatives addressing health inequalities within our service user population as part of the Complex Psychosis Pathway for Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. We are looking for a motivated, innovative and enthusiastic healthy living advisor to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team. The healthy living advisor role focuses on assessing, planning, and delivering healthy living interventions to service users to enable people to improve their mental and physical health. We are looking for a practitioner who is qualified to a minimum of NVQ level 3 in an area relevant to the post (e.g. nutrition). Please note that we require the post holder to have a Level 2/3 qualification in Fitness Instruction and be CIMSPA registered. Please note that VISA sponsorship is not available for this position ### Main duties of the job The post holder will work in a way that promotes positive partnership working between all members of the Complex Psychosis Pathway. They will have an excellent understanding of the principles of recovery and models and will practice clinically in a way that promotes therapeutic optimism and hope with service users. The Healthy Living Advisor role will focus on assessing, planning, and delivering healthy living interventions to service users as part of the Complex Psychosis Pathway 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. A predominant part of the role will be to support services users in overcoming the barriers that prevent them accessing community resources around their physical health and well-being. Interventions are delivered face to face on a 1:1 and group basis with emphasis on the delivery of physical activity interventions, as well as healthy eating advice ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities 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 recruitment.lypft@nhs.net 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. 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. ### Applicant requirements This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Qu **Essential** - NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent) in an area relevant to the post (e.g. nutrition or fitness instructor). - Level 2/3 qualification in Fitness Instruction and be CIMSPA registered or be willing to work towards this. ### Knowledge **Essential** - Knowledge of health promotion, theory and practice relating to mental health and nutrition. ### Experience **Essential** - Experience/interest in working in mental health and complex psychosis. ### Values Based **Desirable** - 1. Tell us about a time when you spotted something small going wrong and did something to stop it becoming a bigger issue. - 2. Tell us about a time when you realised a colleague or someone you know needed a bit of support and you offered to help. - 3. Tell us about a time when you showed someone kindness or understanding. ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 472.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10549471) - [employee specification (pdf, 416.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10549472) - [reasonable adjustments (pdf, 296.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2928) - [guide to values based recruitment (pdf, 498.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2929) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.