Job Introduction
Are you a dedicated and positive Health Improvement Practitioner looking to join an organisation focused on professional growth and development?
Are you keen to help people improve their health?
Are you prepared to learn new skills?
Could you bring something new to our team?
Can you motivate and encourge others?
Main Responsibility
As a Health Improvement Practitioner within HCRG Care Group you’ll join a highly skilled team who are focused on service excellence.
Your days will be rewarding and varied and include:
- Be a key member of the Stop Smoking Team based within the Wellness Service and the Community Wellbeing Hub.
- To support and develop the stop smoking by helping service users to stop or reduce smoking focusing on areas of high depravation and need.
- To be able to train other health professionals to deliver smoking cessation advice and support.
- To help ensure a public health focus on the wider issues of tobacco control.
- Support/develop, facilitate, and evaluate services and training courses for general public and a range of health promoters in partnership with colleagues.
- Raise awareness of the Wellbeing Service including the Community Wellbeing Hub and disseminate information to relevant organisations eg Council, Charities and service users.
- To be able to work when needed on delivery of other well-being services.
The Ideal Candidate
We are looking for someone who can bring their knowledge and personality to our team. You must have experience of working with service users to make a behaviour change and have a real interest in smoking cessation and the wider public health agenda on smoking and public health.
You will need to have an adaptable and flexible skills base and be able to work well with a knowledgeable team.
You will need to be flexible with working hours to meet the needs of the service. To include occasional evenings.
For any further information please contact Julie Harrington at: Julie.Harrington@hcrgcaregroup.com
You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams.
Package Description
You will feel valued as a Health Improvement Practitioner within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £25,000 and access to our group pension
- Laptop and Mobile enabling fantastic flexible working patterns that can help you lead a perfect work/life balance
- MyWellness – a health and lifestyle platform covering mental health awareness and support, healthy recipes & activity challenges and access to our free well-being service available 24/7/365 online and by telephone including; counsellors, post trauma incident support, legal, debt and practical life management helpline, guided self-help, telephonic career coaching and monthly well-being newsletters
- Access to Reward Gateway - our staff benefits scheme which grants you access to premium offers and discounts on practical spending at national supermarkets and well known retailers as well as special treats like Virgin Experience Days and Lesuire Vouchers
- We are pleased to offer access to Wagestream -which lets you track your pay throughout the month and stream your earned wages into your bank account if you need them. No more high-interest loans or overdraft fees - simply get paid as you go.
- 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays.
- Access to a range of courses and e-learning to develop further skills, bespoke career pathways and opportunities continuing your professional development
- Innovative forward-thinking culture with the opportunity to put forward your ideas to contribute to the way we work. You will be encouraged to apply for national funding to drive your initiatives locally to benefit our patients and service users
- Rewarding and supportive teams, you will be recognised and have opportunities to recognise others by nominating for local and national awards annually and taking part in our new virtual “Ask our Executives” event, where you can submit questions to the board and hear updates regularly on company strategy and objectives
- Working in an environment focused on the highest clinical and quality standards with 100% of our rated services considered overall good or outstanding by the Care Quality Commission.
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 by our Chief Executive Dr Vivienne McVey and like-minded colleagues, 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.
From around 500 locations 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 a broad diversity of talent to apply. We reserve the right to cease any advertising prior to the published closing date for a role that receives a high number of applications.
As a Disability Confident Committed company, we work in partnership with the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to make our business an inclusive place for all.
HCRG Care Group is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practice across our services.
HCRG Care Group, its subsidiary companies and the LLPs are part of the HCRG Care Group and provide publicly funded health and social care services. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website’s privacy policy.
From 11 November 21, as a result of new legislation, anyone over the age of 18 who enters a Care Home as part of their job must have had both doses of a COVID-19 vaccination or hold a valid medical exemption. As part of our pre-employment process we will therefore ask you to provide: * proof of your vaccination status via the NHS Covid Pass (either electronically or via the PDF) * A signed copy of the temporary medical exemption form. Further details about the legislation can be found on the government website.
