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 post working 37 hours per week on a rota basis which includes evenings and weekends.

• Delivering appropriate physical activity and exercise programmes in accordance with NICE guidelines to clients individually or in groups within local community venues such as parks, leisure centres and community spaces.
• Managing a caseload of medium to high-risk clients with a variety of health conditions by delivering a comprehensive healthy lifestyle programme including the wider determinants of health, delivered to clients through evidence based behavioural change models. 
• Maintaining accurate and efficient records of the healthy lifestyle changes of client’s outcomes, which are in line with guidelines. 
• Collecting and updating data and monitoring own caseload.
• Carry out other miscellaneous duties associated with the role.

For the full job description, including the keys areas of responsibilities and accountabilities, please click the 'apply now' button. 

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.

• Experience of client management in the settings of physical activity, sport or nutrition.
• Experience of using a variety of motivational techniques with clients for achieving sustained lifestyle changes.
• Experience of using a variety of software packages for data management.
• Level 3 Personal Training Qualification.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to ensure effective communication with members of the public, staff and external organisations.
• Ability to enthuse, persuade, influence and negotiate in the spoken and written word.
• Knowledge of relevant Health and Safety legislation.
• Knowledge of the benefits of physical activity, sport and community involvement on health and creating sustained behaviour change.