Job Introduction
This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic forward thinking team working with families and young people to improve weight, focus on healthy outcomes and positive lifestyle changes.
As a Children's Healthy Weight Practitioner you will join our Award-Winning Wellbeing Service team who are part of the multi-agency Community Wellbeing Hub. The role specialises in reducing and preventing childhood obesity by delivering face to face and online groups / one-to-ones to the community.
You will also play an active role in supporting residents to access healthy low-cost food by handling calls to our Food Pod within the Community Wellbeing Hub. This role also requires you to support adult healthy weight including diabetes education to ensure that we offer a joined-up healthy weight offer to everyone who accesses our services. The role further requires someone who can support multiple health improvement programmes when required to do so such as stop smoking, physical activity, and mental health.
This is a full time position with a hybrid model of working which involves working at the office base at our Community Wellbeing Hub in Peasedown St John, Bath and from home.
Main Responsibility
In this role you will:
- Primarily focus on the delivery, improvement, development and monitoring of the commissioned Childhood Obesity health interventions in B&NES.
- Manage enquiries and to support people who access the Food Pod.
- Support the adult’s healthy weight and diabetes education service
- Contribute to the delivery of the stop smoking, physical activity and other wellbeing service interventions on and as and when basis.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of other health improvement programmes if required.
- Maintain public health information and support networks.
- Facilitate and provide health improvement training courses.
- Maintain information directories, data collection systems.
- Be responsible for reporting of outcomes through clinical systems.
Please see the attached job description for a full list of job responsibilities.
The Ideal Candidate
Our ideal candidate will have:
- Degree level or equivalent qualification in a Public Health field eg Nutrition/ Food with Nutrition / Sports Science / or an associated health area
- Knowledge of developing relationships with external agencies and organisations
- Experience of working with vulnerable groups within society
- Knowledge of group facilitation / teaching groups around behavior change including cooking skills delivery.
- Experience of working in community settings such as early years/ school based/ youth services
- Ability to work independently and manage a varied client caseload
- Excellent computer skills and have experience operating Word, Power Point, Internet, and Outlook, Microsoft Teams.
- 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
Package Description
As a Children's Healthy Weight Practitioner, you’ll be part of our valued team based in Peasedown St John.
You will feel valued as a Children's Healthy Weight Practitioner within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- A salary of £27,500 with access to our group pension
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Working for an organisation that has been shortlisted in the Nursing Times Workforce Awards 2023 for Best Equality and Diversity Project and Best Social Responsibility Programme.
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday 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
About the Company
We 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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