Wellbeing Practitioner

Local Government South East; Portsmouth; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

Portsmouth City Council is seeking a Wellbeing Practitioner to join the Wellbeing Service, delivering public health interventions across the PO1–PO6 area in venues across Portsmouth. The role focuses on behaviour change, health improvement and reducing inequalities, including smoking cessation, healthy weight, physical activity, and emotional wellbeing.

You will assess clients, plan support, work with communities, supervise small teams, and travel across the city to meet clients.

Qualifications

• Experience in customer-facing role and delivering behaviour-change interventions.
• Knowledge of smoking cessation, healthy weight, physical activity and emotional wellbeing.
• Ability to engage communities and provide personalised support planning.

Responsibilities

• Assess clients in various settings and identify support needs.
• Deliver public health interventions addressing health inequalities.
• Lead or mentor staff within small to medium teams and provide guidance.
• Coordinate services across venues and travel within the city as needed.
• Provide telephone/virtual support as part of the service.

Skills

Customer facing

Behaviour change

Smoking cessation

Healthy weight

Physical activity

Job description

Your New Role

The Wellbeing Service supports individuals to modify behaviours, improve their health, increase life expectancy, and to reduce health inequalities for people in Portsmouth. The Wellbeing team provide services across the PO1 – PO6 locality in a range of venues.

• Full Time
• Permanent
• Portsmouth
• Posted 2 days ago
• 29000 - 33000 £ / Year
• Closes: 13 November 2026

Portsmouth City Council

Local Government

Wellbeing Practitioner

Salary : £29,170 – £33,119 p.a.

37 hours per week

Your New Role

The Wellbeing Service supports individuals to modify behaviours, improve their health, increase life expectancy, and to reduce health inequalities for people in Portsmouth. The Wellbeing team provide services across the PO1 – PO6 locality in a range of venues.

Within this role you will provide a range of public health delivery services, linked to health improvement and reducing health inequalities such as those which address the wider determinants of health. This will include addressing modifiable risk factors, such as smoking, alcohol, overweight and obesity and physical inactivity, as well as mental health and wellbeing. You will provide services in a range of venues across the city including GP practices, hospital settings and community centres. In addition, the service provides telephone/virtual support. Some of the work undertaken will be targeting our most deprived communities, who suffer the greatest health inequalities.

Working as part of a team, work patterns typically involve working 2 evening shifts per week.

You will be required to meet clients in a variety of setting, engaging with them and communities to identify support needs through initial assessment, fostering community involvement, promoting wellbeing and connecting people with the appropriate support.

You may be required to supervise staff within small to medium-sized teams which may include lower banded staff. In addition, you will be the point of contact from other individuals and services for advice and information on your expertise areas and be required to mentor and support new staff development.

Who Is The Person Summary

With experience of working in a customer facing role with clients (1-1’s or group), delivering/supporting behaviour change interventions. You will have the ability to facilitate support with smoking cessation, healthy weight interventions, physical activity, alcohol reduction, emotional wellbeing and the broader issues that may be impacting on an individuals current health through personalised support planning. With skills to lead community-based clinics, you will have good interpersonal skills and be able to demonstrate effective team working with the ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of the wider team. You will have a knowledge and understanding of Portsmouth’s demographic and of the wider determinants of health and how they can impact, as well as knowledge on how to engage people with support to address these. With good analytical skills, you will need good communication and organisational skills to enable you to priorities and organise your workload. A knowledge of recognised behaviour change models and techniques, with the ability to apply these effectively to support individuals in making positive health and wellbeing changes would be desirable. With good data management and IT skills you will be a car driver or have the ability to travel across the City as you will be working across the PO1-PO6 area and will be required to transport resources to and from the venues. Experience of working with community and voluntary sector groups is desirable.