Wellbeing Practitioner

Portsmouth City Council; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 39,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

Portsmouth City Council is seeking a Wellbeing Practitioner to join the Wellbeing Service across Portsmouth city venues, delivering public health interventions to reduce health inequalities. This role involves engaging with communities, assessing needs, and providing support planning to address modifiable risk factors such as smoking, weight, physical activity, and mental wellbeing.

You will work with a team, conducting initial assessments, leading community-based activities, and sometimes

Qualifications

• Experience in customer-facing roles with individuals or groups.
• Ability to facilitate behaviour change interventions, including smoking cessation and healthy weight initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Address modifiable risk factors through health improvement activities.
• Deliver services across venues including GP practices, hospital settings and community centres.
• Supervise staff and mentor new team members.
• Meet clients in diverse settings, conduct initial assessments and plan personalised support.
• Coordinate across services and engage with deprived communities to reduce health inequalities.

Skills

Customer-facing communication

Behaviour change facilitation

Job description

Salary: Band: 6, £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 withsmoking 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.

For full details, please review the job profile and the 'who is the person' on the job profile below attached.

About Portsmouth City Council

Portsmouth City Council is a unique organisation, committed to making a difference, and is guided by core values that set who we are as people, what we stand for, and how we act.

We are committed to our values of respect, integrity, collaboration, inclusivity and being people-focussed. These values set out how we can contribute to the success of the council and our own success as individuals. Learn more about our values and behaviours .

Additional Information

We are not able to offer sponsorship for this position.

Our recruitment process

Interview process: Assessment day will take place on the 27 November 2026. If successful from that you will be asked back to interview on the 3 / 4 December.

You must demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points described in the 'Who is the Person'points on the Job Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had.If you apply without a detailed personal statement, it is unlikely that you will be successful.

We are a disability confident employer and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard. More information can be found at Equality, diversity and inclusion - Careers portal

You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it.

Portsmouth City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults at risk and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Every post is subject to PCC and Portsmouth Safeguarding Adults Board safer recruitment procedures.

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) at Standard/Enhanced level will be required prior to any offer of employment and this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Please read the relevant DBS privacy notice before submitting any information.

You will need to explain any gaps in your career history within the last 5 years - this is essential for safeguarding roles.