Medway CouncilHiring for Supporting Healthy Weight Advisor at Orissa Full Time

The Supporting Healthy Weight team within Medway Public Health are looking for enthusiastic Facilitators to deliver an adult healthy lifestyle programme called Healthy Way.

Healthy Way is a 12 week lifestyle programme which covers a variety of topics that aims to inform and support attendees to enable some small behaviour changes that can improve their health and well-being.

We’re looking for facilitators to deliver this programme at various venues throughout Medway weekday mornings and evenings and Saturday mornings. We are able to offer flexible working within this role with Facilitators delivering no more than 3 courses per week, each session lasting up to 2 hours.

You should have a passion for health and wellbeing and keen to work within the Medway community to support adults to lead healthier lifestyles.

In return we offer you:
Generous annual leave entitlement

Generous local government pension scheme package

Access to wider training and development qualifications

Flexible working scheme

Travel plan discounts

Car Benefit Scheme from Tusker

Access to CAREFIRST advice & counselling service

Employee discount scheme for national and local retailers

The Government has introduced new ways of supporting parents with childcare costs. Further details are available here: – https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/

Our organisation:
Medway is a unitary authority in the South East of England, made up of the towns of Strood, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham and Rainham and more rural areas, including the Hoo Peninsula.

Situated in Kent in the South-East of England, the area has plenty of green spaces, excellent facilities and easy access to the national motorway and rail networks, facilitating superb transport links to London.

We provide all local Government services for a quarter of a million people, looking after education, environment, social care, housing, planning, business and much more – everything from frontline services such as rubbish collection and events like the Dickens Festival to work that goes on behind the scenes to ensure services in Medway run smoothly and cost effectively.

Working at Medway Council means that you get to be part of this journey working alongside talented, professional colleagues to drive forward change to transform the lives of our residents and the communities they live in.

If you would like to have an informal discussion with the recruiting manager please call Laura Greenstreet on 01634 333783

Interviews are likely to be held virtually via Microsoft Teams. Full details on how this will work will be sent to you, if your application is successfully shortlisted.

Important Information-

Applicants must be able to demonstrate all essential requirements as listed in the job profile

Equal Opportunities Commitment Statement

Medway Council is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All appropriately qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, disability, marital status, family commitments, sexual orientation, age, HIV status, religious or political beliefs, social class or trade union activity or irrelevant spent conviction.

For further information please refer to the Medway information pack available as a download or to view online

Please be advised that if you are not contacted within 3 weeks of the advert closing date then you have not been shortlisted. All recruitment correspondence, including interview letters and contracts of employment will usually be sent out via email.

Please visit http://www.mindfulemployer.net/ for information on how Medway Council put good practices in place to ensure employees and job applicants who declare mental health issues receive the right level of support.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time prior to the closing date.

How to apply

Please be advised that we only accept online applications submitted through JobsGoPublic ATS

If you are not contacted within 3 weeks of the advert closing date then you have not been shortlisted.

All recruitment correspondence, including interview letters and contracts of employment will usually be sent out via email, if you require documentation/correspondence in different format such as braille or large print, please contact the Resourcing Team on 01634 332878.