Practitioner (Maternal Healthy Lifestyles) - Tier 3

2 weeks ago


Manchester, United Kingdom MoreLife Full time

**Job Title**:Practitioner** (**Maternal Healthy Lifestyles) - Tier 3***

**Location**:Salford, Greater Manchester***

**Hours**:37.5 hours (plus one part-time required)

**Reporting to**:Contract Manager

**Key Relationships**:Service Lead/Delivery Leads/Client Services Team/MDT

**Closing Date**:13**th** March 2023**

**The Role**:
To deliver the Maternal Healthy Weight programme and be actively involved in stakeholder engagement in order to drive referrals into the service.

**Key responsibilities: -**
- Deliver the Maternal Healthy Lifestyles service ensuring an action orientated approach to learning to support a full range of individuals to engage.
- Be responsible for supporting pregnant people to achieve their goals which promote healthy weight-gain in pregnancy and safe weight-loss postnatally in a sustainable way - delivery should account for 80% of a practitioners time.
- Administration tasks and processes designed to engage clients onto programmes. For example, telephoning clients to book appointments, sending out communications, telephoning clients for catch up calls.
- Support and encourage pregnant people to set realistic goals in terms of behaviour change and achieving positive healthy outcomes.
- Use psychological coaching strategies, including motivational interviewing, goal setting and cognitive communication, behaviour therapy skills to negotiate change and overcoming barriers to achieving goals.
- Educate adults by facilitating interactive and engaging sessions on dietary and healthy eating advice and physical activity.
- Lead inclusive, fun, motivating and positive lifestyle experiences, considering the needs of the members on the Maternal Healthy Lifestyles service.
- Promote a flexible approach to engaging with the Maternal Healthy Weight Programme - Ensure there is the regular communication with participants between sessions, ring those who do not show up and conduct follow-up calls and drop in sessions on a regular basis.
- Conducting exit interviews with those who choose to disengage from the service.
- Be sensitive and supportive to the psychological and physiological needs of pregnant people, and to signpost to additional support where appropriate.
- Regularly evaluate the success of the Maternal Healthy Weight Programme and provide feedback to ensure continuous improvement in health outcomes.

**Benefits**:

- 25 days annual leave and 8 bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time staff).
- Company sick pay
- Nest pension scheme
- Death in service benefit.
- Salary sacrifice for pensions
- Contribution Towards Development Training
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Paid Professional subscriptions
- Volunteering days
- Workwear if required for the role.

**For Essential & Desirable Criteria Please See attached document**

Practitioner (Maternal Healthy Lifestyles).docx

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