Healthy Weight Co-ordinator inManchester inManchester PUBLISHED
THU 16 JAN 2025
The Healthy Weight Coordinator position is part of the School Health Service within the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust's Children’s Community Services Directorate. The role focuses on combating severe obesity among nursery and reception-aged children through individualized weight management support for their families, based on assessments from the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP). The Coordinator will deliver tailored interventions, including dietary, physical activity, and behavior change advice, while working collaboratively with families in home, school, and local health settings. Responsibilities include conducting visits and consultations, developing care plans, evaluating interventions, and maintaining detailed documentation in compliance with trust requirements.
The position offers the opportunity to work within a large, integrated health and social care system that serves one million patients yearly across Manchester and beyond. The Healthy Weight Team emphasises collaborative working and employs digital solutions to enhance patient care and operational efficiency. The role also involves contributing to research initiatives and promoting sustainable healthcare practices, in line with the trust's ongoing commitment to innovation and inclusivity in the workplace.
The position offers the opportunity to work within a large, integrated health and social care system that serves one million patients yearly across Manchester and beyond. The Healthy Weight Team emphasises collaborative working and employs digital solutions to enhance patient care and operational efficiency. The role also involves contributing to research initiatives and promoting sustainable healthcare practices, in line with the trust's ongoing commitment to innovation and inclusivity in the workplace.
This post is positioned within the School Health Service, part of the Children’s Community Services Directorate in the Manchester Local Care Organisation. They operate citywide across Manchester working in partnership with schools to improve the health outcomes of children, young people and their families.
The Healthy Weight Team aims to reduce the levels of severe obesity within nursery and reception aged children, by providing effective and comprehensive weight management support to the parents/carers of children identified as severely obese through the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP). The Healthy Weight Team work with families across Manchester on an individual basis to provide dietary, physical activity and behaviour change advice and support, either in the school or home setting.
The post holder will work as a member of the Healthy Weight Team delivering interventions and packages of care delegated to them by a registered nurse or dietitian. The post holder will work in partnership with families in the home, school and local health centres. The post holder will deliver agreed health information and support to children and families working across the community, universal, universal plus and universal partnership plus spectrum of the Healthy Child Programme (HCP).
Support the Healthy Weight Lead in collecting and analysing data for the evaluation of the Healthy Weight Team
To be responsible for a designated caseload and to plan and organise time efficiently and effectively about client priorities balancing other client related services and demand
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Helen Tutty Job title: Acting Team Lead Healthy Weight Team Email address: Telephone number:
The Healthy Weight Team aims to reduce the levels of severe obesity within nursery and reception aged children, by providing effective and comprehensive weight management support to the parents/carers of children identified as severely obese through the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP). The Healthy Weight Team work with families across Manchester on an individual basis to provide dietary, physical activity and behaviour change advice and support, either in the school or home setting.
The post holder will work as a member of the Healthy Weight Team delivering interventions and packages of care delegated to them by a registered nurse or dietitian. The post holder will work in partnership with families in the home, school and local health centres. The post holder will deliver agreed health information and support to children and families working across the community, universal, universal plus and universal partnership plus spectrum of the Healthy Child Programme (HCP).
- Undertake home and school visits, and telephone consultations to families to implement programmes of weight management support under the direction of the Healthy Weight Nurse
- To signpost parents and children to appropriate services/agencies for additional support as required
- To discuss and agree short, medium or long-term goals, prioritise care and develop and implement appropriate plans of care to support families around weight management.
- To work without direct supervision in the implementation of care plans to meet prior agreed goals, outcomes and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions and make any necessary modifications.
- To provide advice to families and professionals around weight management and healthy lifestyles.
- To maintain comprehensive and accurate, documentation and data systems in line with legal and trust requirements.
Support the Healthy Weight Lead in collecting and analysing data for the evaluation of the Healthy Weight Team
To be responsible for a designated caseload and to plan and organise time efficiently and effectively about client priorities balancing other client related services and demand
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Helen Tutty Job title: Acting Team Lead Healthy Weight Team Email address: Telephone number:
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