Job summary
You will be a Lead with a focus on supporting families for Nottinghamshires Integrated Wellbeing Service, Your Health Your Way. You will play an integral part in the development and sustainability of the FAB (Food Activity Balance) club intervention.

Main duties of the job
As a Family Weight Management Lead, you will be responsible for leading and developing the Family Weight Management service, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based interventions that improve health outcomes for children and families. You will oversee the NCMP pathway, work closely with multidisciplinary teams including GPs, dietitians, paediatric consultants and social services, and build strong partnerships with commissioners, stakeholders and community organisations to maximise engagement and service impact. The role involves coordinating programme delivery, developing educational resources and marketing materials, supporting group and one-to-one interventions, and promoting healthy eating, physical activity and behaviour change. You will monitor service performance against KPIs, maintain robust referral pathways, analyse and report data, and contribute to quality assurance, clinical governance and continuous service improvement. In addition, you will support business development activities, deliver presentations and training to colleagues and partners, contribute to the development of new initiatives, and ensure compliance with organisational policies, safeguarding requirements and professional standards. This is a varied and rewarding role requiring excellent organisational skills, the ability to manage competing priorities, and a proactive approach to driving innovation and improving outcomes for children, young people and their families.

About us
ABL is an exciting fast-paced, growing community health organisation. As an experienced, CQC registered, provider of community health services, we are passionate about delivering evidence based, innovative, effective, and relevant health care services in partnership with individuals, communities, and stakeholders.

Details
Date posted: 07 July 2026
Pay scheme: Other
Salary: £27,000 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number: E0343-26-0025abl904
Job locations: Unit 7, Birch House Ransom Wood Business Park, Mansfield, NG21 0HJ, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
This role would suit a person with experience in paediatric weight management or similar, who is keen to consolidate their existing knowledge and expand their skills working with children and families with a range of health issues and comorbidities.

You will be responsible for working alongside the delivery teams to ensure we reach performance targets around family weight management and providing quality assurance around delivery of the interventions.

You will play an important role in developing strategic relationships with key stakeholders to ensure quality referrals into the FAB service in accordance with the KPI targets. You will also liaise with the Community Engagement Team where appropriate to ensure effective engagement from parents and families.

Training will be given to ensure staff / applicants are equipped to deliver effective services.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Lead the NCMP pathway, liaising with public health colleagues and monitoring uptake.
• Attend mandatory company-wide Family Weight Management and steering group meetings.
• Coordinate with MDT members (GPs, dietitians, paediatric consultants, social services) and support HLA attendance at MDT and LAC meetings.
• Oversee programme development: update curriculum, develop resources, create marketing materials, and provide evidence-based dietary guidance.
• Contribute to FAB Club delivery and establish family groups where demand exists.
• Support integration across IWS pathways (e.g., smoking cessation, weight management) and database development.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, commissioners, and residents to drive continuous service improvement and innovation.
• Support business development, including contract bids, case studies, and success stories.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with partners, stakeholders, and childrens centres across Nottinghamshire.
• Align delivery timetables with District Leads to meet KPIs and ensure up-to-date signposting services.
• Ensure quality assurance through staff observations, audits, and clinical governance oversight.
• Collect, analyse, and report project data to the Head of IWS; contribute to CPD and maintain a professional portfolio.
• Work with specialist leads (physical activity, nutrition, smoking, alcohol) to maintain quality and governance standards.
• Support T2/T3 FWM cases and liaise with commissioners on client progress.
• Develop and maintain referral pathways, monitoring and improving performance with key partners.
• Deliver age-appropriate one-to-one and group advice on healthy eating, behaviour change, and physical activity.
• Deliver presentations to stakeholders and support the training of new staff and volunteers.
• Complete all mandatory and additional training, and follow ABL Health policies and procedures.
• Prioritise and manage workload effectively to meet deadlines.

You will be a motivated, passionate, organised, and proactive individual with significant experience in engagement.

This role will be demanding as services develop and should become integrated in all settings. It will be essential that you use your own judgement to prioritise competing demands and workload effectively to specific timescales.

Duties and Responsibilities
This post will work under the line management of the Project Lead. The role will be varied, challenging, and rewarding as the service becomes embedded in all local communities across the borough.

Skills and Competencies Required

• Experience in children and young peoples services: Demonstrated experience coordinating programmes or projects within youth work, schools, community health, or similar child-focused settings.
• Adaptability to evolving services: Ability to deliver initiatives within services that are continually developing, responding flexibly to changing needs of children and young people.
• Understanding of health inequalities in young populations: Knowledge of local deprivation, social determinants, and factors affecting the health and wellbeing of children and adolescents.
• Motivational and supportive leadership: Able to engage, inspire, and support young people, families, staff, and volunteers to achieve positive outcomes.
• Excellent communication skills: Skilled at adapting communication for children, young people, parents, carers, colleagues, and partner organisations.
• Relationship and partnership building: Experienced in developing trust and collaboration with schools, youth centres, families, and community stakeholders.
• Quality-focused delivery: Committed to monitoring impact, maintaining high standards, and continuously improving services for children and young people.
• Innovation and problem-solving: Open to new approaches and creative solutions to meet the diverse needs of young participants.

Person Specification

Job Specific Requirements
Essential

• Requires full UK driving licence and access to own vehicle

Experience
Essential

• Relevant experience in working with families and/or young people in a community/hospital setting.
• Experience working with hard-to-reach groups and tackling health inequalities.
• Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team. Experience of engaging key external stakeholders from a wide range of specialisms.

Desirable

• Experience of delivering healthy lifestyle interventions to children and young people.
• Experience of delivering or managing community development/asset based programmes.
• Experience of delivering groups and/or one-to-one weight management interventions to children, young people, and adults.
• Experience of planning and delivering appropriate health interventions specific to individual requirements.

Qualifications
Essential

• Educated to degree level or demonstrable relevant equivalent experience in public health or related field

Desirable

• AFN accreditation or equivalent

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.

Please note that we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role