Healthy Living Advisor Full Time

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Are you looking for a new challenge?

Are you interested in mental health/ learning disabilities, 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 Healthy Living Service 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 the healthy living team.

This is a team consisting of a team manager, physiotherapists, dietitians, health improvement specialist, and healthy living advisors.

The healthy living advisor role will focus on assessing, planning and delivering healthy living interventions to service users as part of the healthy living service to enable people to improve their mental and physical health.

The interventions delivered will be face to face on a 1:1 and group basis. There will be an emphasis in the delivery of physical activity interventions as well as healthy eating advice, first line weight management advice (under the supervision of a dietitian) and brief interventions on smoking cessation and 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

We are looking for a practitioner who is qualified to at least an NVQ level 3 in an area relevant to the post (nutrition) and have REPS level 2 (for exercise prescription).

We are looking for someone who can also work possible evenings to deliver ward based interventions. The Healthy Living Service supports service users on acute mental health wards, working with male and female service users experiencing a wide variety of mental health illnesses; therefore a good knowledge/experience of working with people suffering from a mental illness is essential.

We will also consider secondments.

Please be advised that NHS staff from the Yorkshire and Humber region designated ‘at risk of redundancy’ will, wherever possible be offered an interview, provided that they demonstrate that they meet all the essential shortlisting criteria of the post. If you are ‘at risk of redundancy’ or ‘affected by change’ please make it clear on your application and ensure that you apply through the restricted jobs part of your NHS Jobs account.

Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications are recieved. It is in the candidates best interest to apply as soon as possible.

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In submitting an application form, you authorise Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed to the post.

If you have not received any further communication from us within four weeks you are asked to assume that your application has been unsuccessful. If you should have any queries regarding progress with your application form please contact us.

The Trust currently pays a non-consolidated supplement in order that all our staff receive the equivalent of the Living Wage Foundation Rate.

To help us achieve our goal of improving health, improving lives, the Trust became Smoke Free for staff and service users from April 2016.

Please note: The Trust does not offer reimbursement of interview expenses.

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