Healthy Living Advisor

NHS; Leeds; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health services organization in the UK is seeking a Healthy Living Advisor to promote mental health and deliver healthy living interventions. The role involves assessing and planning initiatives to improve health, working with a multidisciplinary team, and addressing community health inequalities. Candidates should possess a relevant NVQ Level 3 qualification and a fitness instructor certification. The organization offers supportive employee benefits including career development and training opportunities.

Benefits

27 - 33 days annual leave

Flexible working arrangements

NHS Pension Scheme

Opportunities for career development and training

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in an area relevant to the post (e.g., nutrition).
• Level 2 or 3 fitness instructor certification and CIMSPA registration required.
• Knowledge of health promotion and its theory and practice related to mental health.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate healthy living initiatives to address health inequalities.
• Assess, plan, and deliver healthy living interventions to service users.
• Promote positive partnership working among team members.

Skills

Knowledge of health promotion

Understanding of nutrition

Communication skills

Empathy

Education

NVQ Level 3 in a relevant area

Level 2/3 qualification in Fitness Instruction

Job description

Go back Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Healthy Living Advisor

The closing date is 13 January 2026

Are you interested in mental health, reducing health inequalities and supporting people to make changes towards a healthier lifestyle? If so this could be the post for you.

This is an exciting opportunity to facilitate healthy living initiatives addressing health inequalities within our service user population as part of the Complex Psychosis Pathway for Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. We are looking for a motivated, innovative and enthusiastic healthy living advisor to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

The healthy living advisor role focuses on assessing, planning, and delivering healthy living interventions to service users to enable people to improve their mental and physical health.

The post holder will work into the Level 1 Inpatient Rehabilitation units (Asket House and Asket Croft) with service users that present with complex needs who are under the care of the Community Rehabilitation Team and Assertive Outreach Team.

Please be aware that there is a maximum number of applications set for this vacancy, early application is advised to avoid disappointment.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work in a way that promotes positive partnership working between all members of the Complex Psychosis Pathway. They will have an excellent understanding of the principles of recovery and models and will practice clinically in a way that promotes therapeutic optimism and hope with service users.

The Healthy Living Advisor role will focus on assessing, planning, and delivering healthy living interventions to service users as part of the Complex Psychosis Pathway to enable people to improve their mental and physical health. This will include physical activity, healthy eating advice, first line weight management advice (under the supervision of a dietitian), smoking cessation and brief interventions on drug and alcohol usage following appropriate training.

This will be delivered through advice and information for service users and staff, training and development for service users and staff, health promotion and physical interventions. The Healthy Living Advisor will encourage service users to access local opportunities and services, signposting people to activities which support health and wellbeing. A predominant part of the role will be to support services users in overcoming the barriers that prevent them accessing community resources around their physical health and well-being. Interventions are delivered face to face on a 1:1 and group basis with emphasis on the delivery of physical activity interventions, as well as healthy eating advice.

About us

The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.

There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.

We also have a bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.

Applicants should be aware that individuals requiring a visa to work in the UK, the Trust only provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles (this does not include Healthcare Support Workers). This is an essential requirement, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you do not meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.

Job responsibilities

We recruit people based on their values and qualifications (where required) and believe that their lived experience is an advantage, this means that together we are as diverse as the communities we care for. Simply put, when we employ caring people who act with integrity and have the right skills, we can give those with mental health challenges, learning disabilities and neurodiversity high-quality care and support to live fulfilling lives, and make our staff feel purposeful, happy and valued.

All our information is available in accessible formats. Please contact the Recruitment team [e-mail] Attached to this advert is our candidates guide to values-based recruitment and supporting guidance on how to make a successful application.

If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Recruitment Team or see the attached candidate guide to reasonable adjustments.

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading.

So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the Candidate Guide to Values Based Recruitment. This document provides you with information to help you apply.

We are looking for a practitioner who is qualified to NVQ level 3 in an area relevant to the post (e.g. nutrition). Please note that we require the post holder to have a Level 2/3 qualification in Fitness Instruction and be CIMSPA registered.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent) in an area relevant to the post (e.g. nutrition) and Level 2 or 3 fitness instructor and be CIMSPA registered.

Experience

• Knowledge of health promotion, theory and practice relating to mental health and nutrition.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust