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Full Time / 37 hours / Permanent

Would you like to make a difference to the citizens of Leicester and their health and wellbeing?

Live Well Services, is a specialist Team which supports the residents of Leicester city to improve their health and wellbeing by offering support with smoking cessation, increasing physical activity, managing alcohol levels, healthy eating, and weight management.

This is an exciting opportunity for a suitably qualified Healthy Lifestyle Advisor to join our team and help clients through their journey to improve their healthy lifestyle behaviour. As a team, we work closely with clients with long term health conditions and support them in making a positive and sustained lifestyle choices.

Usually based at Braunstone Health and Social Care Centre, you’ll be required to work across the city. This is a permanent, full-time position working 37 hours per week on a rota basis which includes evenings and weekends.

What you'll be doing

As an enthusiastic Healthy Lifestyle Advisor, you’ll manage a caseload of clients and work with them on either one to one basis or in groups to deliver a comprehensive healthy living programme through evidence based behavioural change models including, motivational interviewing, prescribed physical activity, and holistic healthy lifestyle support. In accordance with NICE guidelines you’ll deliver appropriate physical activity and exercise programmes within local community venues such as parks, leisure centres and community spaces as well as provide advice on variety of subjects such as healthy eating. You’ll maintain accurate and efficient records of the healthy lifestyle changes of client’s outcomes, which are in line with guidelines.

What you’ll need

With previous experience of client management, you’ll have knowledge of motivational techniques in the settings of physical activity and nutrition, including health and safety. You’ll be qualified to Level 3 Personal Trainer and ideally be a qualified as an Exercise Referral Instructor or be willing to undertake this training. Using excellent interpersonal and persuasive skills, you’ll be able to motivate clients to improve their health and wellbeing, as well as be tactful when dealing with clients who at times may be lacking in confidence.

What we can offer you

As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from a number of flexible benefits, discounts on city buses and trains.

For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at out benefits calculator.

Join us

We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the ‘our approach to recruitment’ page.

For an informal discussion about this post please contact Kyle Harrison on email [email protected]