Feel Good Suffolk Advisor

Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Councils are looking for a Feel Good Suffolk Advisor - Smoking Cessation to join our team in Communities. You will join us on a full time, fixed term or secondment opportunity for 12 months. The successful candidate will earn a competitive salary of £30,559 - £35,235 per annum (pro rata for part time).What we are looking for

About the Feel Good Suffolk Advisor role

This service will support people to make positive changes to their health and wellbeing, including losing weight, giving up smoking and becoming more active.  

Key duties

• Provide triage and assessment of clients accessing the Feel Good Suffolk (FGS) service in your locality.
• Deliver behaviour change interventions and techniques based around Physical Activity, Smoking Cessation, and Weight Management as required.
• Motivate and empower clients to make behaviour changes, conducting ‘what matters to me’ assessments to approach the client’s health holistically.
• Supporting clients to identify modifiable factors which may be affecting or posing a risk to their health, creating a personal action plan to make changes which can improve their health.
• Using Health Coaching techniques deliver face-to-face, digital, and over the phone 1-to-1 and group interventions.
• Deliver group and one to one smoking cessation support to clients as required, including coordinating the use of Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT).
• Deliver sessions using a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) approach.
• Work closely and forge strong links with partners across the locality at place and neighbourhood level to refer and signpost the client to ensure suitable support is provided, including but not limited to local authorities, the integrated care board and primary/secondary care, leisure providers, and Voluntary, Community, Faith, and Social Enterprise organisations (VCFSE).
• Complete ‘touch point’ assessments and evaluations of clients to monitor their progress, recording the data in a case management system and reporting on outcomes as required.
• Contribute to the measurement of change and improvement in health behaviours using relevant outcome measures.
• Equip people with the knowledge, skills and confidence to access information and support via a digital front door where they can find resources and information to self-manage their health behaviours.
• Understand the wider determinants of health and barriers to healthy lifestyles and reduce health inequalities impacting on health behaviours.
• Undertake training and development opportunities to ensure continual professional development and to boost the Feel Good Suffolk provision.
• Work closely with colleagues across the county as part of the Feel Good Suffolk team to ensure collaborative and efficient working, and equity for residents accessing services.  

About you

You will be motivational to provide a holistic approach to health and wellbeing support to clients accessing the Feel Good Suffolk service. 

As an advisor, you will be responsible for triaging cases and undertaking “what matters to you” client centred assessments, as well as delivering one to one support and group health-based interventions. You will be supporting and empowering the clients to overcome barriers and make positive changes in their lives. 

This role will primarily be remotely based, utilising local community assets, and will involve travel across the district to provide face-to-face services as well as providing client support over the phone and via our digital platform. 

A full drivers’ license and access to a car is essential for this role and a strong working knowledge of the area will be advantageous. 

An extensive training package will be provided to you to develop your skills and ability as a Feel Good Suffolk Advisor. 

About us

Working together across our councils and with our partners in the public, private and voluntary sectors, we provide excellent services to our 190,000 residents across Babergh and Mid Suffolk.

We are proud of the role we play in creating the environment, economy, and communities for our districts. We believe that the heart of Suffolk is an incredibly special place to live and work. With picturesque market towns, 60 conservation areas and with two National Landscapes within our districts, it is little wonder that we are consistently within the top 50 places to live in the UK.

Benefits we offer our Feel Good Suffolk Advisor:

• Great opportunities for learning and development.
• Generous leave entitlement (equivalent to 26 days a year, increasing to 31 days after 5 years’ service, plus bank holidays).
• Competitive Local Government Pension Scheme.
• Wellbeing Support Programme.
• Employee Assist Programme.
• Health Care Options.

Our ways of working:

Work is what we do, not where we go!

We are committed to working in a more hybrid way, with a mix of office, home, and remote based working (business needs permitting). This has worked well for us and is something we will be continuing with.

We are committed to supporting equality and diversity, Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Councils provide opportunity and ambition for all, supporting and enabling our people to deliver the best possible service for our residents.

Closing date: 5pm, 29th November 2024.

If you think you have what it takes to be successful in this Feel Good Suffolk Advisor role, even if you don’t meet all the requirements, please apply. We would appreciate the opportunity to consider your application.

Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Councils are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy/ies.