Live Well Coordinator

**Job details**:
Job reference

REQ5210

Date posted

03/03/2025

Application closing date

17/03/2025

Location

Braunstone Health & Social Care Centre

Salary

£34,314 - £37,035 Per Year

Package

Total benefit value (includes pension contribution and full holiday entitlement): £50,337.32

Contractual hours

37

Basis

Full time

Job category/type

Public Health

Attachments

Job Description (59).pdf

**Live Well Coordinator**:
Job description

Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Permanent

Would you like to make a difference to the citizens of Leicester and their health and wellbeing?

Live Well is an integrated healthy lifestyle service which supports the residents of Leicester city to improve their health and wellbeing by offering support with smoking cessation, increasing physical activity, managing alcohol levels and healthy eating.

We have an exciting opportunity to become our Live Well Coordinator who will lead the nutritional aspect of our service. Working closely with other Live Well Coordinators, you will have a responsibility to work with clients individually or in groups providing nutrition, healthy eating and behaviour change advice to clients to manage their weight and make sustainable changes to improve their overall health and wellbeing.

We’re currently recruiting a full time, permanent position to work 37 hours a week Monday to Friday. However, on occasion you may be required to work on evenings and weekends in accordance with the needs of the service. You’ll have flexibility in hybrid working being both office based, at Braunstone Health and Social Care Centre / City Hall or working remotely from home to suit your needs.

**What you’ll be doing**:
As a Live Well Coordinator, you’ll be working with other Live Well Coordinators in the team to ensure that all clients have access to good nutritional and healthy eating advice and support. You will be supporting clients on their smoking cessation journey to achieve better quit outcomes by providing additional support in relation to healthy eating and nutrition to aid their quit attempt.

You will be responsible for developing interactive and engaging sessions to clients on promoting good health, the importance of a balanced diet, basic cooking skills and more. As well as educating clients you will be responsible for creating resource packs that aid clients during their journey and share important healthy lifestyle messages through our website and social media platforms.

You will also have responsibility for managing a team of advisors, collect appropriate data and using it to monitor and understand the effectiveness of the sessions. You’ll respond to complaints and escalated queries and resolve these in an efficient manner.

**What you’ll need**

You will need previous experience managing or coordinating nutritional programmes in local communities as well as experience working directly with clients on a one to one level and in group settings. You’ll have experience of working towards KPI’s and developing services to meet the needs of the local community, with a mature and calm manner, you’ll be able to prioritise tasks, work under pressure to meet set objectives. You will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills to develop strong relationships with other Council services, health partners and third sector organisations as well as deal effectively with people from all backgrounds.

**What we can offer you**

As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from a number of flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.

**Join us**

Interviews / Assessments will take place on the 1st of March