Full-time Role (40 hours per week). Peterborough and Fenland
We are looking for enthusiastic, motivated community leader, to work within our integrated healthy Lifestyle Service, as an integral part of one of our community team, to be based in the North part of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough (covering Fenland and Peterborough). This role will be responsible for empowering the community to access our service through making and maintaining strong community links, through helping other agencies understand the role of the service and through community outreach and engagement activities. If you are an excellent communicator who is enthusiastic, motivated, and looking to make a difference to local communities, then this is the role for you.
The key functions of the role are:
Our Community Engagement and Network Leads work to build community capacity to implement our service goals through resident and cross community engagement that is participatory, inclusive, deliberative, and collaborative.
The post holder will:
- Work to participate in all community networks of relevance developing trusted partnerships
- Deliver Making Every Contact Count, raising awareness of the service and ensuring the service can reach the residents who might benefit from it.
- Engage with existing organisations across the public, private and charitable sectors to embed the service.
The successful candidate will:
- Have strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Possess a minimum of 1 year experience working in a community-based service
- Are experienced in using behaviour change models within a work context
- Are flexible with good time management and planning skills
- Are interested in motivating and supporting both individuals and groups in community-based settings
- Can raise public awareness and provision of consistent healthy lifestyle messaging, on issues relevant to the health of the community and in a multi-cultural setting
- Have experience in building strong links and relationships with a diverse range of groups, organisations and agencies
- Are able to talk confidently to diverse groups and individuals, maintaining key messages
- Have experience of community outreach and engagement.
- Experience of using social media platforms to promote services
To apply: Please send a current CV with supporting letter to [email protected], [email protected]
and please visit our website at Work With Us – Everyone Health to download the advert and full job specification.
Closing date: Friday 7th January 2022
Interview date: Friday 21st January 2022
We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications
JOB DESCRIPTION
Community Engagement and Network Lead
MAIN PURPOSE
Our Community Engagement and Network Leads work to build community capacity to implement our service goals through resident and cross community engagement that is participatory, inclusive, deliberative, and collaborative.
SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:
The post holder will:
- Work to participate in all community networks of relevance developing trusted partnerships
- Deliver Making Every Contact Count and Brief Intervention training to organisations, raising awareness of the service and ensuring the service can reach the residents who might benefit from it.
- Engage with existing organisations across the public, private and charitable sectors to embed the service
- Be line managed by the Service Manager and be professionally accountable to the Professional Lead for Health Psychology
PERSON SPECIFICATION
1. SKILLS & ABILITIES
- Be able to plan and manage own time and activities around the needs of individuals in the community to generate referrals
- Ability to keep accurate records of activity to provide data and monitoring information
- Effective numeracy and literacy skills
- Emotionally sensitive and empathetic to members of the public who wish to improve their health, to be supportive and encouraging to people in difficult (sometimes frustrating) situations
- Value and be respectful of other people – regardless of background or circumstances
- Have strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Be flexible with good time management and planning skills
- Be interested in motivating and supporting both individuals and groups in community-based settings, and in the home
- Be an excellent communicator, able to express to other organisations the benefits of working
2. KNOWLEDGE
- In depth knowledge of local communities
- Knowledge of the effect of social isolation and loneliness on the elderly
- Knowledge of the challenges to achieving health improvement amongst local communities
3. EXPERIENCE
- Experience of working with and engaging organisations and individuals
- Experience of actively engaging with local communities
- Experience of using Microsoft programmes (Word and Excel).
- Experience of team working.
- Experience of managing a personal workload or caseload
4. QUALIFICATIONS
Essential: GCSE Maths and English to at least Grade C, or equivalent.
Desirable: Recognised 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. If this is not held, the post holder will be supported in achieving these qualifications within the probationary period
5. SPECIAL CONDITIONS
- Highly motivated self-starter with resilience, determination, and the ability to see jobs through to completion.
- Role incorporates evening / weekend working, with variable levels of travel across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough (predominately Huntingdonshire), working in a variety of settings including home visits, the community and community centres.
- Full UK Driving licence and access to a car for work- with ‘business purposes’ insurance
- Evidence of a personal commitment to continuing professional development and to maintaining an up-to-date professional knowledge supporting the development of business within the company.
- 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
6. 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.