Healthy Living Advisor

2 weeks ago


Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The Healthy Living Advisor role will focus on assessing, planning and delivering healthy living interventions to service users 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.


Providing 1:1 and group activities to service users both on the inpatient wards and in the Healthy Living Service department.


This will include work around physical activity, healthy eating and budget management, smoking cessation work and nicotine replacement, support around drug and alcohol use.


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, days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme (LYPFT pays 20.6% into your scheme each year), 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 organisations such as Blue Light Card, Health Service Discounts and NHS Discount Offers.

Plan and deliver healthy lifestyle interventions 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.



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