Healthy Living Advisor Leeds, England
Job description
The Healthy Living Advisor role will focus on assessing, planning and delivering healthy living interventions to service users 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
Providing 1:1 and group activities to service users both on the inpatient wards and in the Healthy Living Service department.
This will include work around physical activity, healthy eating and budget management, smoking cessation work and nicotine replacement, support around drug and alcohol use.
The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.
There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme (LYPFT pays 20.6% into your scheme each year), coaching,support and opportunities for career development and trainingand education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more organisations such as Blue Light Card, Health Service Discounts and NHS Discount Offers.
We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank. Bank-only workers can choose the hours they want to work and will have the opportunity to gain additional experience, keep skills up to date, develop new ones and earn extra money without having to commit to a permanent role. For an informal discussion or more information please contact the [email protected]
Plan and deliver healthy lifestyle interventions on both a 1:1 and group basis.
To contribute to the management and prioritization 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
