Working for The Essex Lifestyle Service within Provide I see clients one-to-one in clinics across mid Essex. I support clients to make lifestyle changes such as smoking cessation, healthy eating, increased physical activity and increased confidence and self esteem. My responsibilities include:- Engage with individuals in the community and improve their lifestyle and self-management capacity.- Apply behaviour change techniques to support routine individual lifestyle changes, e.g goals setting.- Provide evidence based information about a range of health issues such as smoking, alcohol, mental health, healthy eating and physical activity.- Socially prescribe to other services that will enhance and sustain the outcome of the interventions.- Work autonomously on complex cases.- Support asset mapping within the community.- Manage caseloads efficiently.- Undertake basic clinical interventions: e.g. measuring weight, blood pressure, BMI- Contribute to and work as works as part of a team.- Follow up clients during and after completion of their lifestyle change intervention and discuss further steps.

I assisted in the running of community physiotherapy classes for people with COPD.