Child / Young Person Weight Management Practitioner; Nutrition and Healthy Lifestyle Advice.

Thrive Tribe; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading health and wellbeing service in Nottingham as a Child/Young Person Weight Management Practitioner. You'll empower families to make sustainable lifestyle changes through engaging interventions. This full-time role offers a fun and supportive environment, with opportunities for professional growth and a flexible working model.

Benefits

Flexible working model

Employee Health and Wellbeing Programmes

Rewards portal for discounts

Pension and Life Insurance Schemes

Regular team events

Qualifications

• Experience supporting individuals in healthy lifestyle choices.
• Ability to handle sensitive conversations about weight.

Responsibilities

• Deliver evidence-based interventions on nutrition and movement.
• Motivate children and families to adopt healthier lifestyles.
• Record and monitor client progression accurately.

Skills

Nutrition

Health Coaching

Physical Activity

Education

Qualification in Nutrition

Fitness Instructing

Job description

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! We’re looking for a looking for a child / young personweight management and healthy lifestyle practitioner to join the Thriving Nottingham team!

Thriving Nottingham are an Integrated Health and Wellbeing Service (IHWS). 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 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. A typical day as a Child / Young Person 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
• Motivating, inspiring and supporting children, teens and parents/carers to lose weight and adopt a healthier lifestyle, through a professional, knowledgeable and empathetic approach
• Being able to relate and communicate to both children, teens 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!
• 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.

Experience

To work with us in this role you will need tohavesome experience of supporting individuals,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!

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;

• Flexible working model
• Regular events and team days, including ThriveFest!
• Employee Health and Wellbeing Programmes including access to life coaching
• Rewards portal offering discounts on shops, restaurants and days out
• Pension and Life Insurance Schemes
• A day on us to live by our values!

Contract:

We have 1 x Full Time (37.5hrs), permanent position available.

Salary: Starting at £23,810, rising through annual increments to £25,000.

There may also be some opportunity to progress to a Senior Child Weight Management Practitioner and earn up to £28,000.’

Closing Date:The closing date for applications is Monday 26th May 2025.

Applicants will be contacted to outline the next stages of the process. Interviews will be in person, in Nottingham

Location:This job is based in Nottingham. The role will require travelling across the city so a car owner preferred. Please note, the successful applicant will be required to have the right to work in the UK.

Learn more about Thriving Nottingham: www.thrivingnottingham.org.uk

Got a question? Contact Kathryn Pyer, Child and Family Healthy Lifestyle Lead at [e-mail]

We believe that every person has the right to thrive at work, which is why we are committed to equal employment opportunity and will not discriminate.Should you require any specific accommodations in the recruitment process please let us know in your application.