Two exciting opportunities have become available within Healthy Knowsley Service, within our Weight Management and Children Families Teams. The posts are an opportunity for someone who is passionate about reducing health inequalities and increasing health aspirations.
This role provides an opportunity for the postholder to develop their leadership skills as they will be providing line management support to staff within their pathway.
The postholder, alongside our Senior Health Improvement Practitioners, will monitor the service performance in the pathways that they oversee and ensure that the service maintains a high-performance level in terms of achievement of key performance indicators and quality of service delivery. The postholder will communicate performance information to senior leaders through reports and verbal updates.
The role will focus on behaviour change and self-management approaches to help people make informed decisions around factors that influence health and other lifestyle choices. The Health Improvement Practitioner within our weight management service will hold a small caseload as well as line management responsibilities for our Wellbeing Coaches.
Within our children and families team, the Health Improvement Practitioner will line manage Sports and Lifestyle coaches as well as completing community engagement and delivering Making Every Contact Count training (MECC).
This is an opportunity for someone who is passionate about reducing health inequalities and increasing population health.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Joanne Cotter Job title: Operational Delivery Manager Email address: joanne.cotter@merseycare.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07774154867
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