Nutritionist

April 14, 2023

**Salary**: £20,000- £25,000

**Hours**:37.5 hours per week

**Location**: Nottinghamshire

**Closing Date**:28th April 2023

**Please quote job reference: ABL 400**

We are looking for nutritionists to deliver our weight management curriculum to clients on the Your Health, Your Way programme. You will deliver across the Integrated Wellbeing Service communicating key nutritional messages in both a group and one-to-one format.

Key to this is motivational interviewing and behavioural change skills, working through any potential barriers to adhering to the different phases of the programme and keeping patients committed to achieving their outcomes.

You will have the opportunity to attend monthly clinical supervision sessions and training sessions in order to upskill and develop whilst in the role. You will be supported by a team of specialist clinicians throughout and provided with relevant training to help you succeed in the role.

**Some of the essential criteria for the role**:

- Degree in accredited Nutrition course (RfN, AfN membership)
- Experience working with hard-to-reach groups and tackling health inequalities.
- Excellent written, verbal, and non-verbal communication skills, with the ability to build rapport quickly with people.
- Excellent administration, record keeping and data collection skills
- An understanding of environmental and social factors effecting obesity
- To cope with unpredictable work patterns and work well under pressure.
- Excellent time management and organisational skills.
- Must have a high attention to detail.
- The ability to travel independently across the organisational footprint.
- Work flexibly and adapt to suit service need including evening and weekend work as required.

**Employee Benefits**:

- Birthday Day off
- Flexible Annual Leave scheme
- Employee Referral scheme
- 37.5 hours working week
- Flu jabs
- Blue Light Card
- Cycle to work scheme
- Leadership and staff away days
- Training and Development

Recruitment Pack

Nutritionist

Weight Management

Nottinghamshire

**Healthier, happier for longer,** **we make lives better**

**Contents**
Contents...................................................................................................................... 1

Welcome & Introduction to the role............................................................................... 2

Employee Benefits........................................................................................................ 2

Our History.................................................................................................................. 3

ABL Vision & Values...................................................................................................... 4

Meet the ABL Leadership Team...................................................................................... 5

ABL Services................................................................................................................. 6

Achievements............................................................................................................... 7

About the role.............................................................................................................. 8

Job Description....................................................................................................... 8- 11

Person Specification.............................................................................................. 11- 13

How to apply.............................................................................................................. 13

The closing date for this vacancy is 27th April 2023......................................................... 14

1

**Welcome & Introduction to the role
Hello and thank you for your interest in the Healthy Lifestyle Advisor
- Families, Children &
Young people role.

ABL is an exciting fast-paced, growing community health organisation. As an

experienced, CQC registered, provider of community health services, we are

passionate about delivering evidence based, innovative, effective and relevant

health care services in partnership with individuals, communities and

stakeholders.

**Employee Benefits
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**Our History
ABL was founded in 2009 by people who believed they could and should change the world

As a GP and former teacher, Sheena Bedi and Denise Leslie had first-hand experience of community

health services that had failed people, the very people who needed them most. The dynamic pair

believed they could provide a different, more flexible approach, by combining their expertise in

healthcare, education and experiences of the social and economic problems that held people back.

They vowed they would find a way to support and encourage people to lead healthier, happier lives

for longer, whatever their background. ABL was born, ABL stands for A Better Life.

ABL knew that if they put people at the heart of the services, steppe