Job overview

The Healthy Living Advisor role will focus on assessing, planning and delivering healthy living interventions to (inpatient) service users living with Severe Mental Illness (SMI) 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.

*Post involves travel to the Mount, LS2 9LN and Newsam Centre, LS14 6UH on a weekly basis.

Main duties of the job

·       Plan and deliver healthy lifestyle interventions to mental health inpatients 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

Working for our organisation

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, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.

We also have a bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank. 

Applicants should be aware that individuals requiring a visa to work in the UK, the Trust only provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles (this does not include Healthcare Support Workers). This is an essential requirement, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you do not meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.