Trainee Wellbeing Advisor

Trainee Wellbeing Advisor - Fixed term contract until 31st March 2026

Post No: 44550

Salary: Starting from £27,711 to £30,060 per annum

Grade: Grade 4

Hours: 37 hours per week

Place of work: Worthing Town Hall

Closing date: 8th June 2025

Interviews: TBC

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Adur & Worthing Wellbeing Team and play your part in promoting and supporting local people to live healthier lifestyles.

Adur and Worthing Wellbeing are looking for a highly motivated person to work as part of the team working with adults to provide advice and guidance to individuals and groups to enable long term lifestyle behaviour change. 

This role is a dual role which is part administration which will involve using behaviour change techniques, to triage and assess individuals accessing the service suitability for the service, data inputting and other administrative duties. The second part of this role will involve training to become a wellbeing advisor with on the job training and experience to support individuals to reduce their risk of long term health conditions: heart disease / stroke, cancer and type 2 diabetes. This will include one-to-one sessions and group work with clients and promotional work such as giving talks, attending events and taking an active role in health promotion campaigns. 

Referring/signposting people to relevant organisations will be key to this role and full training will be provided to the successful candidate.

The successful postholder is subject to an Enhanced with Adults Barred List DBS check.

At Adur & Worthing, we are committed to supporting care leavers, in accordance with the Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000 and the Children and Social Work Act 2017. To that end, we operate a guaranteed interview scheme for anyone meeting the essential criteria of the role they are applying for. In order to be considered for this, you will need to be a care leaver under the age of 25 at the time of application. Please confirm that you are a care leaver in the "Showing how you meet the person specification and job description" section of the application form. 

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of applicants declaring a disability, that meet the essential criteria for this position, will be offered an interview. 

Staff are our most important asset and we therefore have a benefit package which reflects our continuing commitment to our employees.  This includes:

• Generous leave entitlement; a minimum of 26 days + Bank Holiday entitlement
• Local Government Pension
• Training & development
• Occupational Health
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Employee resource groups/networks 
• Buddy Support Programme  
• Flexible working options

We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. Staff work in a supportive and safe environment, recognising their responsibility to value and respect each other’s contributions. Standards of conduct must be of the highest level to ensure that no-one is harassed, bullied or victimised. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, staff engagement forums and are keen to hear from applicants from a variety of different backgrounds.