Child Weight Management Practitioner - Nottingham, United Kingdom - Thrive Tribe

Thrive Tribe

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Nottingham, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Join us on our journey to empower over a million people to change their behaviours and thrive
At Thrive Tribe we deliver award-winning healthy lifestyle and wellbeing programmes that make people happier and healthier It's a super exciting time to join us as we begin to deliver our Integrated Health and Wellbeing Service (IHWS) throughout the City of Nottingham, and we're looking for a group of Child Weight Management Practitioners to join the team

Our IHWS programme is designed to support individuals and families to improve their health behaviours and make sustainable changes to their lifestyle.

The programme consists of five key services;

Stop smoking support
Tailored physical activity programmes
Adult weight management
Child/family weight management _(this is where you come in)_
Health Coaching

Residents across the City of Nottingham will be able to benefit from a variety of our established pathways and products, including Gloji Energy which provides eligible families a fun and engaging programme to support them to eat healthier, manage their weight and increase their physical activity levels.

The holistic 12-week programme combines both one to one appointments and weekly group sessions.

Like all roles at Thrive Tribe, you can expect your time at work to be fun, varied and challenging.

We don't like to stick to a firm JD as we know from experience that things change throughout the lifetime of a role and it gives our people the chance to play to their strengths.

A typical day as a
Child Weight Management Practitioner might include:

Delivering evidence-based interventions that cover nutrition, movement, mind and sleep, with a focus on behaviour change and psychological support
Motivate, inspire and support children and parents/carers to lose weight and adopt a healthier lifestyle, through a professional, knowledgeable and empathetic approach
Be able to relate and communicate to both children and their parents/carers, handling sensitive conversations about weight in a professional manner
Delivering engaging sessions in schools
Ensuring an excellent and safe experience for clients, aligning with our internal policies and procedures
Supporting referral generation activities to promote the service including outreach and primary/secondary care liaison
Accurately recording and monitoring data, including client progression
Working with colleagues across all of our Thrive Tribe services to contribute to new projects and service developments we're always looking to share knowledge and resources
Ensuring due consideration is given to Information Governance and Clinical Governance legislation, requirements and guidance Helping us maintain the ethos of Thrive Tribe by driving our organisational culture forward across our services and using every opportunity to embed our values

About you
More than anything, we are looking for a team player who puts their heart in to their work. We've got some core values that run through everything we do, and we'd love it if they resonate with you too

Be the change
You like helping people. You'll be working with those who need help the most, empowering them to make positive changes to thrive.

Be effective
You're patient and can adapt under pressure. Always happy to make time for other people. And have a great attitude.

Be happy
You recognise the power of a smile.

You value a fun, supportive workplace and want to come to work raring to go (check out our rating on Glassdoor).

Be successful
You are motivated and driven. Happy working solo or as part of a team, you love meeting targets. And will be given opportunities to contribute and develop your career.

Be big-hearted
You want to make a difference.

Working with a like-minded team of optimistic people, we want the same thing to do meaningful work and change lives.

To work with us in this role you will need to have some experience of supporting individuals, ideally children or young people, to make healthy lifestyle choices through nutrition, physical activity or health coaching.

A qualification in nutrition, health coaching, fitness instructing or experience delivering physical activity would be a bonus

Although not essential, so that we can best support the needs of our clients in Nottingham we are particularly keen to hear from applicants who are fluent in Polish, Urdu, Arabic and/or Romanian.

However, we hire based on attitude over traditional skills and experience so if you feel you are right for the job we would love to hear from you

Perks...
Every person makes Thrive Tribe the incredible place it is to work and play together, we're unstoppable. Within our buzzing environment our talented people work hard but we ensure lots of fun is thrown in too We offer you;