Salary: £25,000 per year
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Location: Bolton
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 21st of July 2025
Please quote job reference: ABL 789

REQUIREMENTS:

• Educated to degree level or demonstrable relevant equivalent experience.
• CIMSPA (previously REPS) qualified Level 2 Gym instructor/Group exercise award or equivalent
• Experience of delivering groups and/or one-to-one behaviour change for adults.
• Experience of delivering health promotion / public health interventions in community settings.
• Experience working with hard-to-reach groups and tackling health inequalities.
• Previous paid or voluntary experience working with people.

ROLE PURPOSE:

You will be a ‘Healthy Lifestyle Advisor’ for Your Health Bolton, delivering our targeted weight management curriculum, including engaging and informative nutrition sessions and suitable physical activity contributing towards getting the residents of Bolton active through our interventions.
You will be a motivated, passionate, organised, and proactive advisor, with experience working in community health programmes. You will be passionate about promoting healthy lifestyles and delivering motivational change which is client centred. You will have a background in supporting people to build their confidence and ability to make sustainable healthy behaviour changes which works for their personal circumstances.
Our team have working backgrounds in nutrition, weight management, exercise, brief alcohol advice and smoking cessation. We offer you a full in-house training package to help you support our clients on their journey to a sustainable healthy lifestyle change.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

As a Healthy Lifestyle Advisor, you will deliver group weight management sessions that include nutrition, physical activity, and behaviour change, in line with ABL Health protocols and NICE guidance. You will carry out client-centred assessments using motivational interviewing and positive psychology to support progress and maintain a caseload, monitoring outcomes and signposting to relevant interventions. Responsibilities include accurate record-keeping and data entry, contributing to the development of service resources, and supporting goal setting using SMART principles. You’ll work flexibly as part of a multi-disciplinary team, addressing broader lifestyle factors such as alcohol, smoking, and physical activity. The role also involves attending training, team meetings, and stakeholder events to promote the service and ensure quality standards are met.