ABL Health have been commissioned by Sefton Council to deliver a high quality and specialist stop smoking service across Sefton. The Project Lead and engagement officer will assist the Head of Service in increasing engagement and raising the profile of the service through building relationships and delivering training to local partners in the community. This is a varied and exciting role where the post holder will have a real influence on the development of the service. The post holder will take a proactive lead in building relationships, partnerships, and alliances both internally and externally to increase the number of referrals into the service and expand the reach to the most vulnerable groups.
You will be a motivated, passionate, organised and proactive communicator, with experience working in a community setting. ABL take a strengths-focused asset-based approach to community delivery, looking to innovate and partner, not replicate existing delivery. No two days will be the same in this varied and flexible role. If you are as comfortable spending a day with the team as you are working independently and confidently with new people, this could be the job for you.
Main duties of the job
Key responsibilities will be:
1. Working with ABL's communication team to help raise the service profile.
2. Working closely with operational colleagues to manage the referral rates and develop partnerships with all potential referrers in your locality.
3. Implement community targets within marketing and engagement strategy, providing regular updates and monitoring progress of community engagement projects to Head of service and team.
4. Organise and attend local community events across the Borough to promote our service and encourage referrals, including workplace health and wellbeing events, health promotion events, community fun days, health clinics, youth centre workshops, and school events.
5. Collaborate with Marcomms team to develop engaging resources for community engagement.
6. Attend local health forums/meetings on a regular basis where required to represent the service (this will involve some public speaking/presenting).
7. Deliver Very Brief Advice training to client-facing stakeholders across Sefton to increase signposting/referrals to our service from a wide range of sectors including VCSE.
8. Innovative and open-minded to new ideas and piloting of different strategies.
About us
ABL is an exciting fast-growing community health organisation. ABL is an experienced, CQC registered, provider of community health services. As an organisation we are passionate about delivering evidence-based, innovative, effective and relevant health care services in partnership with individuals, communities and stakeholders.
We are a value-driven organisation, dedicated to reducing health inequalities and improving people’s lives. We would love to hear from you if you would like the opportunity to work within a close team of committed professionals and you share our values of designing and delivering health services.
Job responsibilities
Duties and Responsibilities
The role will be varied, challenging and rewarding as you support and develop the service through implementation, delivery and ongoing innovation and service development.
Key responsibilities will be:
1. Working with ABL's communication team to help raise the service profile.
2. Working closely with operational colleagues to manage the referral rates and develop partnerships with all potential referrers in your locality.
3. Implement community targets within marketing and engagement strategy, providing regular updates and monitoring progress of community engagement projects to Head of service and team.
4. Organise and attend local community events across the Borough to promote our service and encourage referrals, including workplace health and wellbeing events, health promotion events, community fun days, health clinics, youth centre workshops, and school events.
5. Collaborate with Marcomms team to develop engaging resources for community engagement.
6. Attend local health forums/meetings on a regular basis where required to represent the service (this will involve some public speaking/presenting).
7. Deliver Very Brief Advice training to client-facing stakeholders across Sefton to increase signposting/referrals to our service from a wide range of sectors including VCSE.
8. Innovative and open-minded to new ideas and piloting of different strategies.
Skills and Competencies Required:
1. Be experienced in community engagement and partnership working in a community health environment.
2. Experience of building and maintaining networks and partnerships.
3. Positive and proactive with the ability to motivate, engage and support partnership delivery.
4. Adept in communication; a confident, approachable communicator who adapts the message to fit the needs of the audience and can see the bigger picture in problem solving for community cohesion.
5. Build strong relationships, foster trust and cooperation among colleagues, stakeholders, community leaders, and commissioners.
6. Quality driven; you naturally seek high standards and actively seek to improve them.
7. Value and remain open to new ideas and perspectives.
This role will develop over time and therefore it is expected that the post holder will have additional responsibilities.
Person Specification
Skills & Knowledge
1. Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
2. Demonstrable experience of excellent active listening skills.
3. Ability to prioritise work tasks and develop effective work streams.
4. Awareness of the barriers facing adults, young people and families in engaging with a healthy lifestyle.
5. Positive and Can Do attitude.
6. Non-judgemental, friendly and approachable.
7. Excellent team player and able to work autonomously and use own initiative.
8. Confident and outgoing yet approachable and willing to take direction.
9. Ability to read and interpret data.
10. Understanding of public health guidance.
11. Capable of producing service reports.
12. Knowledge of asset-based community development.
13. Clear understanding and experience of Confidentiality and Information Governance.
Experience
1. Experience of working in a community or healthcare setting.
2. Demonstrable experience of partnership working.
3. Previous experience of delivering training programmes.
4. Experience of qualitative and quantitative client feedback.
5. Experience of public speaking.
6. Local knowledge of VCSE service.
7. Experience of partnership working/collaborating with various organisations.
Job Specific Requirements
1. The ability to travel independently across Sefton and further afield if needed.
2. Work flexibly and adapt to suit service need, including occasional evening and weekend hours.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£26,000 to £28,000 a year Pro Rata Part Time
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