Job summary

Are you a dedicated and positive Health Improvement Practitioner looking to join an organisation focused on professional growth and development? You will have the chance to contribute to the delivery of the stop smoking, physical activity interventions and wider health education interventions.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Award-Winning Wellbeing Service team. The role will specialise in reducing and preventing Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes through delivering groups (face to face and online) and 1-2-1 in the community.

As a Health Improvement Practitioner, you will work 22.5 hours per week where your working hours will be 9 to 5. The days worked can either be Monday to Wednesday or Tuesday to Friday but occassional weekend work is to be expected. This will include some ad hoc community events within the local area.

Main duties of the job

As a Health Improvement Practitioner within HCRG Care Group youll join a highly skilled team who are focused on service excellence.

Your days will be rewarding and varied and include:

  • Be a key part of our Adult Weight and Diabetes team delivering behaviour change interventions to adult residents in Bath & N E Somerset. This will include planning courses, identifying need, organising venues and contacting attendees. Calling referrals and triaging them to the most appropriate service and maintaining clinical records.
  • Be part of a wider team and as required, assist, promote and deliver wider Wellbeing services e.g., stopping smoking, childrens healthy weight, physical activity, mental wellbeing and the Community Wellbeing Hub.
  • 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 e.g., Council, Charities and service users.

    • About us

    About the Company

    Wechange lives by transforming health and care.

    Establishedin 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of communityhealth and care services, working with health and care commissioners andcommunities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency andimproved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community healthservices, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health,dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeingservices. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directlyhelp more than half a million people each year – guided by our simple values: wecare, we think, we do.

    We’recommitted to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverserange of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability ConfidentCommitted company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustmentsand technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

    Whileit doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need toclose it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join ourteam, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

    Tofind out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2

    Date posted

    17 November 2022

    Pay scheme

    Other

    Salary

    £25,000 to £25,000 a year

    Contract

    Permanent

    Working pattern

    Part-time

    Reference number

    HCRGCG/TP/8091/3487

    Job locations

    Bath

    Avon

    BA2 8SG

    Job description

    Job responsibilities

    As a Health Improvement Practitioner , youll be part of our valued team in Peasedown St John.

    You will feel valued as a Health Improvement Practitioner within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

  • A salary of £25,000 (pro-rated to the hours worked) with access to our 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 lifes 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 Ideal Candidate

    You will be qualified to degree standard or equivalent in Nutrition/ Home Economics/ Food with Nutrition/ Public health or an associated health area and have experience of working in the field.

    The ideal candidate will need to be flexible with working hours to meet the needs of the service and have a full UK driving licence and access to transport.

    Job description

    Job responsibilities

    As a Health Improvement Practitioner , youll be part of our valued team in Peasedown St John.

    You will feel valued as a Health Improvement Practitioner within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

  • A salary of £25,000 (pro-rated to the hours worked) with access to our 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 lifes 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 Ideal Candidate

    You will be qualified to degree standard or equivalent in Nutrition/ Home Economics/ Food with Nutrition/ Public health or an associated health area and have experience of working in the field.

    The ideal candidate will need to be flexible with working hours to meet the needs of the service and have a full UK driving licence and access to transport.

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    • Person Specification

    General Requirements

    Essential

  • Click Apply for this job above to view the Job Description on our career site

    • Desirable

  • Click Apply for this job above to view the Job Description on our career site