About this role
Job summary
ABL Health delivers the Integrated Health Improvement Service, Your Health Dudley, commissioned by the Dudley Council Public Health Team. This transformative service will play a central role in improving the health and well-being of residents of Dudley. The service provides integrated behaviour support to help people move more, drink less alcohol, stop smoking and lose weight. The service also offers lifestyle support for families, deliver community health checks, offers advice and guidance, and proactively signposts to relevant organisations. All of this is embedded in sustainable behaviour change and positive well-being. This post will focus on the Healthy Lifestyle support for families with children aged 4-17.
Main duties of the job
As a Family Healthy Lifestyle Practitioner, you will work closely with children, young people and families to improve health and wellbeing through personalised support and evidence-based behaviour change interventions. You will provide one-to-one support via face-to-face appointments, telephone and video consultations, helping families to set achievable SMART goals and sustain healthy lifestyle changes. Working collaboratively with schools, community organisations, commissioners and local partner agencies, you will build strong referral pathways, promote the service, and increase engagement while reducing drop-out rates. You will design and deliver engaging workshops on topics such as healthy eating and active lifestyles, contribute to the development of family-friendly resources and social media content, and gather client feedback, case studies and testimonials to support service improvement. The role also involves maintaining accurate records and performance data, contributing to KPI achievement, safeguarding children and families in line with organisational policies, supporting the wider integrated service, attending meetings and training, and working flexibly to meet the evolving needs of the service.
About us
ABL is an exciting fast-growing community health organisation. ABL is an experienced, CQC registered, provider of community health services. As an organisation we are passionate about delivering evidence based, innovative, effective and relevant health care services in partnership with individuals, communities and stakeholders.
Job description Job responsibilities
The post holder has responsibility for delivering the following key result areas:
Increase new referrals to the service and reduce drop-out rates
Provide one to one family support, via face-to-face sessions, phone or video calls.
Work with local schools to encourage parents to engage with the service
Build on network of signposting opportunities to enrich support offered
Build local links with other support service staff to encourage referrals and partnership working
Promote the service at local meetings, networks and events
Work with Service Manager and Co-ordinator to ensure service is achieving KPIs
Work with data team to ensure system reporting meets the needs of the service
Attend ABL forums, meetings and training as applicable
Work with marketing to create family friendly booklet material and social media posts.
Work with system in order to extract data for use in reports and at managers request from ABL meetings and updates
Maintain good working relationship with Family Commissioners
Co-create and deliver healthy workshops for use with families, such as the Healthy Lunch box session
Group workshop delivery out in the community, such as healthy eating workshops, healthy pizza making and delivering fun and informative lifestyle topics
Contribute to collecting feedback by collecting regular case studies and client testimonials
Support individuals and families to set SMART goals and offer support using evidence-based behaviour change techniques.
Record data accurately on database, keeping records up to date and in line with policy.
To safeguard all families and report in line with ABLs safeguarding policy
To support the wider team in delivering the Integrated Service
To adhere to all ABLs policies and procedures
To carry out any other duties as requested by the Head of Service
This role will develop over time and therefore it is expected that post holder will have additional responsibilities
The desire to make a difference
We are looking to change the lives and improve the wellbeing of the people in Dudley
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Skills and Competencies Required
Be an experienced health improvement practitioner with a knowledge of working with families
Experience of evolving and developing services
Good team player with a positive outlook willing to engage and support others to achieve the highest standards and outcomes.
Adept in communication; A strong communicator who adapts the message to fit the needs of the audience including clients, staff, and partners
Able to build strong relationships, foster trust and co-operation among colleagues, stakeholders and throughout community settings
Be quality driven; naturally seeking high standards and looking for ways to achieve this
Value and remain open to new ideas and perspectives.
Please note that we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role
Person Specification
Experience Essential
-Experience in a related field: e.g. Families work, Nutrition, health improvement -Experience of delivering group work and/or 1-1 support -Experience of working with vulnerable children/adults and/or communities experiencing health inequalities. -Understanding of Health Improvement, behaviour change and Health inequalities
Desirable
-Demonstrable experience with service improvement measures. -Experience of delivering HENRY courses or workshops/Henry Practitioner qualified
Job Specific Requirements Essential
-Work flexibly and adapt to suit service needs including some evening and weekend work. -Willingness and ability to travel independently across the Dudley Borough and on occasion to other ABL locations for training or Team events. -Drivers licence and access to own transport
Qualifications Desirable
Qualification in relevant field such as nutrition, sports science, public health Safeguarding level 1
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details Employer name ABL Health Ltd
Address King Charles House
Dudley
DY1 4PS
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.ablhealth.co.uk/work-for-us/join-our-team/ (Opens in a new tab)