Full Time role – 37.5 hours per week
An exciting opportunity is available for an enthusiastic, dynamic, and motivated individual with experience and a special interest in health promotion and supporting and facilitating the development of the Social Isolation Service within the Healthy Communities integrated lifestyle service in Staffordshire.
Playing a pivotal role in the wider Staffordshire team, you will be a central part of the Social Isolation service and supporting eligible Staffordshire residents who feel lonely or isolated to step-back into the community during our 12-week Social Isolation support programme.
This is a multi-disciplinary position and will requires the successful applicant to be competent working alone as well as supporting the existing teams. You will be responsible for the front-line delivery of the service to help improve the health and wellbeing of local communities and will need to support clients on both a one to one and group basis and be confident to lead and deliver via face to face, telephone and online platforms. The ideal candidate needs to be competent in talking to a wide range of people and organising and running own clinics.
You will need to be open to travel and supporting teams in areas further afield including Newcastle and North Staffordshire, Burton, Tamworth, Stafford, Cannock, and South Staffordshire on occasion too.
This can be a fast-paced role at busy events therefore this role requires a pro-active approach, and you must be able to manage your appointment time and react quickly to change. We are looking for a candidate who can demonstrate a flexible, versatile, and responsive ‘can do’ approach.
The key functions of the role are:
- Have strong time management, empathy, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Possess a minimum of 1 year experience working in community-based services or public health.
- Have previous experience or a strong interest in delivering social isolation and loneliness services.
- Display strong knowledge of the harmful effects of loneliness and isolation, and an awareness of key health messages the around the benefits of a healthy lifestyle, mental wellbeing and managing key risk factors: smoking cessation, diet, physical activity, weight management and alcohol consumption.
- Be a pro-active individual who enjoys working at community events and can motivate and support both individuals and groups both virtually and in community-based settings.
- Able to engage with existing organisations across the public, private and charitable sectors to embed the service
- and increase referrals to the service.
- Be an excellent communicator, able to express to other organisations the benefits of working together.
- Possess a minimum of 1 year experience working in community-based services or public health.
Is this role for you?
For more information and to download the job description please visit our website http://www.everyonehealth.co.uk/about-us/employment-opportunities/ and email your CV and supporting statement to [email protected]
Closing date: 13th December Interviews: TBC Please note: Interviews will be held virtually via Teams
All offers are subject to enhanced DBS checks and satisfactory references. We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
JOB DESCRIPTION
HEALTHY LIFESTYLE PRACTITIONER – SOCIAL ISOLATION
MAIN PURPOSE
The Healthy Lifestyle Practitioner’s key responsibilities are to be functional within the Social Isolation and Loneliness team and to promote our range of services across all localities.
SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES
The Healthy Lifestyle Practitioner will:
- Engage with existing organisations across the public, private and charitable sectors to embed the service and increase referrals to the service.
- Support the contract team to ensure the Social Isolation service is of high profile and there is strong awareness in relation to the Gateway of entry in the service.
- Identify and engage with individuals from agreed target groups and communities to facilitate communication regarding promoting their health and wellbeing, and the service.
- Develop and maintain relationships with individuals who are experiencing the greatest inequalities in health and provide information to individuals about the relationship between behaviours and health.
- Make contacts, develop, and maintain professional links within communities including promoting the Social Isolation service and your role to contact groups where there may be barriers to understanding.
- To champion and adhere to processes and procedures to identify and strive for continuing improved quality throughout the patient’s pathway, together with robust data management.
- To meet internal and external performance management requirements given to you by the Social Isolation Lead and Service Manager
- Be responsible for ensuring rigorous and regular data inputting to ensure accurate records are maintained in accordance with SLM procedures, to ensure compliance with Information Governance and Data Protection in relation to patient information.
- The post holder is expected to work within the requirements of the 6 C’s – Care, Compassion, Competence, Communication, Courage and Commitment.
- Support at local virtual and in-person events, helping to set up and close-down as appropriate.
- Deliver one to one telephone and group call support and advise on our other available services relevant to the patient.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
- SKILLS & ABILITIES
- Have strong interpersonal and communication skills and able to competently use Microsoft PowerPoint.
- Able to plan and be flexible with good time management skills.
- Be an excellent communicator, able to express to other organisations the benefits of working together.
- Excellent written, verbal, non-verbal communication, and presentation skills.
- Computer literate – ability to maintain and monitor information systems in line with the national minimum dataset and adapt to reflect local needs.
- Able to take specific deliverables and use appropriate policies, principles, and guidelines to ensure successful delivery.
- Friendly, supportive, and encouraging to people in difficult (sometimes frustrating) situations.
- Organised, flexible and adaptable approach to working.
- Confident and competent at monitoring, managing and reporting own screening equipment needs.
- Value and respectful of other people – regardless of background or circumstances.
- Able to respect confidentiality.
- Good empathy skills.
- Deliver, and work within key competencies of service frameworks.
- KNOWLEDGE
- Sound knowledge of challenges to achieving health improvement amongst vulnerable and deprived communities.
- Good understanding of NICE guidance, national and local recommendations relating to NHS Health Check screening services.
- Sound knowledge of application of behavioural change theoretical principles, to facilitate, motivate and empower individuals / local communities to make substantive and sustainable behaviour change.
- Display an awareness of key health messages around the benefits of a healthy lifestyle and managing key risk factors: smoking cessation, diet, physical activity, social isolation, weight management and alcohol consumption.
- EXPERIENCE
- Delivering health, social isolation, or loneliness support within the local community at events and within local community venues.
- Experience supporting clients with referrals to social care and safeguarding needs.
- Experience of developing effective relationships with key stakeholders.
- Experience of providing health promoting initiatives/services in the local community.
- Experience in working at events.
- Experience in working in the community and/or delivering community services virtually.
- Possess a minimum of 1 year experience working in community-based services or public health.
- QUALIFICATIONS
Required:
- Education to GCSE Standard at grades A-C for a minimum of 5 GCSEs (or equivalent) including Mathematics and English language or literature.
Desirable:
- Recognised Health Check Training Certification & Health Trainer qualifications e.g., City & Guilds Level 3 Certificate for Health Trainers, or equivalent, or Royal Institute of Public Health Level 2 Understanding Health Improvement or equivalent, (with a commitment to achieve qualification if not already qualified).
- SPECIAL CONDITIONS
- Full UK Driving license with access to a car with business travel insurance for work.
- Working in a variety of settings including the community, youth, and community centres.
- Some evening and weekend work.
- This post involves working with vulnerable adults and as such the post holder will be required to apply for a disclosure of criminal records at an enhanced level (DBS).
SAFEGUARDING
Everyone Health Ltd is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the adults, young people and children who use the services. All staff have a responsibility to report any identified concerns of abuse or exploitation through the appropriate route in line with the respective policies and procedures.