As a 'Health Improvement Practitioner’ you will join our Award-Winning Wellbeing Service team who are part of the multi-agency Community Wellbeing Hub. The role will specialise in reducing and preventing Childhood Obesity by delivering services directly to groups and one-to-one in the community (face-to-face and online) and leading the marketing strategy for the service. The role requires someone who can work across multiple children’s healthy weight health improvement programmes and proactively lead the marketing services via a range of platforms and create marketing materials. In addition, you will play an active role in supporting residents to access healthy low-cost food by handling calls to our Food Pod. Working as part of the wider healthy weight team your work will also support and lead the delivery of the Adult Healthy Weight and Diabetes Education Services.
The successful candidate will work as part of a team managed by the Adult & Children's Healthy Weight Manager within the Wellbeing Service. The Wellbeing Service is located at Peasedown St John in Bath where we encourage a hybrid model of working i.e. in the office, home and community.
Package DescriptionAs a Health Improvement Practitioner, you’ll be part of our valued Wellbeing Service team located at Peasedown St John, Bath but also have the flexibility to work in-line with our working together agreement.
You will feel valued as a Health Improvement practitioner within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
Salary of £28,875 with group pension
Free tea and coffee at your base location
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Main Responsibilities
To primarily focus on the implementation, delivery, monitoring, improvement, and design of the commissioned Childhood Obesity health interventions in B&NES.
Work across multiple children’s health improvement programmes including HENRY, which is a supportive family course (0–5-year-olds), LEAP, which supports families of children above a healthy weight & Cook-it, which supports families to cook healthy meals together (5–17-year-olds).
To lead the marketing across a broad range of children’s courses to the public and health professionals to increase attendance rates
To manage a variety of enquiries into the Food Pod
To work with the wider adult healthy weight team to support and lead the delivery of adult healthy weight and diabetes interventions if required to do so.
To contribute to the operation/development of the wider Wellbeing Services areas such as Stop Smoking, Physical Activity and so on if required to do so.
To facilitate and provide health improvement training courses such as Making Every Contact Count (MECC) to health professionals.
To maintain information directories, data collection systems.
To be responsible for reporting of outcomes through clinical systems.
Keep up to date with training and latest research in childhood and adult obesity and fair food access.
The Ideal CandidateThe ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate the following:
You will be qualified to degree level or equivalent in a Public Health field eg Nutrition/ Food with Nutrition / Sports Science / or an associated health area and have experience of working in the field.
You will have knowledge of developing relationships with external agencies and organisations (partnership working).
Have experience of working with vulnerable groups within society.
Experience of group facilitation / teaching groups around behavior change including cooking skills delivery.
Knowledge and experience in marketing such as using online platforms, leaflet development, delivering presentations and developing strong partnerships with services
Experience of working in community settings such as early years/ school based/ youth services
Experience of working in health improvement where you have supported people in 1-2-1 and group scenarios.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to motivate clients to adopt healthier behaviours.
Excellent written communication skills to communicate via email with internal colleagues and external professionals /partners.
Strong organisational skills to organise (implement/deliver/monitor) health improvement interventions.
Ability to work independently and manage a varied client caseload whilst meeting agreed targets.
Excellent computer skills and have experience operating Word, Power Point, Internet, and Outlook, Microsoft Teams.
Willingness and ability to learn new IT systems eg System1/ Riviam.
Ability to work under pressure with minimum supervision.
Car driver and fulltime access to a car that is able to transport equipment.
Flexibility with working hours including some evening and/or weekend work.
Desirable
Teaching / training qualification eg PGCE/ PTLLS or experience of group facilitation/ training/ teaching groups.
HENRY Group Facilitator trained / trained to deliver children's healthy weight support.
Experience of supporting clients around behaviour change specifically supporting people to stop smoking/ lose weight on a 1-2-1 /group basis.
Other requirements:
Flexibility with working hours including some evening and/or weekend work as required.
To undertake such other duties and responsibilities as are specified by the line manager and are commensurate with the level of the post.
About The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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