Health Improvement Practitioner

Job Introduction

Are you a dedicated and positive Health Improvement Practitioner looking to join an organisation focused on professional growth and development? The role will specialise in reducing and preventing Childhood Obesity by delivering service groups and 1-2-1 in the community.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Award-Winning Wellbeing Service team as part of our Children's Healthy Weight team. You will 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.

As a Health Improvement Practitioner, you will work 37.5 hours per week where your working hours will be 9 to 5. A typical working week is Monday to Friday but occasional weekend work is to be expected. This will include some ad hoc community events within the local area.

Main Responsibilities

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:

• To primarily focus on the implementation, delivery, monitoring, improvement, and design of the commissioned Childhood Obesity health interventions in B&NES.
• To contribute to the delivery of the Stop Smoking, physical activity and wider health education interventions.
• Keep up to date with training and latest research in the Childhood Obesity and fair food access.
• To facilitate and provide health improvement training courses.

Please refer to the job description for more details on main responsibilities and essential criteria.

The Ideal Candidate

• Experience working in community settings such as early years/ school based/ youth services
• Experience of group facilitation/ teaching groups around behaviour change including cooking skills delivery

The ideal candidate 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. However, we would welcome applications from students graduating this summer.

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.

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.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

Package Description

As a Health Improvement Practitioner, you’ll 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 £27,500 - £33,000 (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 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