Job Introduction
We are seeking a passionate and skilled Health Improvement Practitioner to join our Healthy Lifestyle team on a fixed term basis!
In this role, you will provide specialist advice and support for our Stop Smoking Service, focusing on some of the most vulnerable individuals living in Bath and Northeast Somerset. While your primary responsibility will be to assist people in quitting smoking and engaging in tobacco control work, you will also contribute to broader health improvement initiatives, including weight management, healthier cooking, and physical activity, in alignment with our person-centered approach to enhancing overall health and wellbeing. This role involves working one-on-one and leading group sessions across various settings throughout Bath and Northeast Somerset.
This is a fixed term part time position working 22.5 hours (usually over 3 days) across the week based at our Peasdown St John location. This is an externally funded position until the end of March 2025 but we expect this to be extended.
Main Responsibility
As a Health Improvement Practitioner you will:
- Design, implement, deliver, and monitor the Stop Smoking Service to ensure effective support and outcomes.
- Manage a busy caseload of individuals seeking to quit smoking, providing personalised support through various methods (group sessions, face-to-face meetings, telephone support).
- Collaborate with local secondary care providers to ensure smokers are supported promptly after discharge.
- Lead the Swap to Stop initiative in Bath and Northeast Somerset.
- Deliver training to other health professionals on smoking cessation and related health interventions.
- Promote and market the Stop Smoking Service to increase awareness and participation.
Please see the attached job description for a full list of job responsibilities.
The Ideal Candidate
- Educated to degree level or equivalent in a public health-related field.
- Proven experience in health improvement, with a track record of supporting individuals both one-on-one and in group settings.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills to effectively motivate clients toward healthier behaviors.
- Demonstrated ability to build relationships with external agencies and organizations, with experience working with vulnerable groups in society.
- Excellent written communication skills for clear and professional correspondence with colleagues and external partners.
- Must have a full UK driving licence and access to a car for work purposes
Package Description
As a Health Improvement Practitioner, you’ll be part of our valued Health Improvement Service located at Peasedown St John.
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 (full time equivelent) 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
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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