Job summary ABL Health, Oldham CCG and Oldham Council are partnered to deliver the Health Improvement and Weight Management Service titled Your Health Oldham. This transformative service will play a central role in system change, bringing previously separate lifestyle behaviour change functions together into one service. It seeks to work collaboratively with communities to support the transformation of services for the local population. The service will provide integrated behaviour support for smoking cessation, weight management, alcohol reduction, physical activity, cooking and Health MOTs, all embedded in sustainable behaviour change and positive wellbeing. You will be the Community Engagement Officer, covering Oldham for Your Health Oldhams Health Improvement and Weight Management Service. You will be expected to lead on community engagement and drive awareness of the service through our promotions, social media and engagement activities. You will be expected to increase referrals into the service by promoting community engagement and building long-lasting relationships with local partners and other varied stakeholders. This will involve being responsible for developing and maintaining strong, positive and long-lasting relationships with a wide range of stakeholder groups at district level, including but not limited to leisure services, the voluntary, community, faith and social enterprises sector, and community services as well as GP practices and childrens services. Main duties of the job This role, reporting to the Stakeholder & Partnerships Lead for Your Health Oldham, will work closely with Project Leads for Stop Smoking and Weight Management services to ensure engagement activities align with service needs. It is a varied and rewarding position focused on driving innovation, service development, and delivery. Responsibilities include implementing the ABL Community Engagement Strategy, raising the service profile, building strong local partnerships, managing referral pathways, supporting recruitment and training of volunteers, organising and delivering community health events, and contributing to service monitoring and evaluation. The role also involves attending local meetings, promoting Your Health Oldham, and supporting communications strategies and co-production activities across the borough. About us ABL is an exciting fast-paced, growing community health organisation. As an experienced, CQC registered, provider of community health services, we are passionate about delivering evidence based, innovative, effective and relevant health care services in partnership with individuals, communities and stakeholders. Date posted 13 March 2025 Pay scheme Other Salary £24,000 to £26,000 a year Contract Permanent Working pattern Full-time Reference number E0343-25-0009abl725 Job locations Room 417, 2nd Floor Chambers Business Centre Chapel Road Oldham OL8 4QQ Job description Job responsibilities ABL Health, Oldham CCG and Oldham Council are partnered to deliver the Health Improvement and Weight Management Service titled Your Health Oldham. This transformative service will play a central role in system change, bringing previously separate lifestyle behaviour change functions together into one service. It seeks to work collaboratively with communities to support the transformation of services for the local population. The service will provide integrated behaviour support for smoking cessation, weight management, alcohol reduction, physical activity, cooking and Health MOTs, all embedded in sustainable behaviour change and positive wellbeing. Role Purpose You will be the Community Engagement Officer, covering Oldham for Your Health Oldhams Health Improvement and Weight Management Service. You will be expected to lead on community engagement and drive awareness of the service through our promotions, social media and engagement activities. You will be expected to increase referrals into the service by promoting community engagement and building long-lasting relationships with local partners and other varied stakeholders. This will involve being responsible for developing and maintaining strong, positive and long-lasting relationships with a wide range of stakeholder groups at district level, including but not limited to leisure services, the voluntary, community, faith and social enterprises sector, and community services as well as GP practices and childrens services. You will be a motivated, passionate, organised and proactive communicator, with experience of 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. The role will require dynamic working which embraces the vision and values we wish to establish for the IWS supporting people to achieve healthy lifestyles. 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 and are highly organised this could be the job for you. This is a demanding job, but you will not be on your own. ABLs highly experienced and friendly multi-disciplinary team of Health and Social Care professionals, Business Intelligence, Service Development, Governance, Finance and Business Development are there to support. Additionally, existing experienced delivery teams will be available to support you to drive the Service forward. Main Duties and responsibilities This post will work under the line management of Your Health Oldhams Stakeholder & Partnerships Lead and work closely with the Project Leads for the Stop Smoking and Weight Management services to ensure engagement is aligned to overall service needs. The role will be varied, challenging, and rewarding as you support and develop the service through implementation, delivery, ongoing innovation and service development. Implementing the ABL Community Engagement Strategy to promote the Your Health Oldham. Working with ABLs communication team to help raise the service profile, create and implement the Communications Plan. Engaging local services and partners to ensure local awareness and explore partnership opportunities and co-production activities. Working closely with Project Leads and operational colleagues to manage the referral rates and develop partnerships with all potential referrers in the borough. Organising/setting up training opportunities to train the voluntary and community sector, faith groups, and the Oldham workforce in MECC, RIOW and B.I and other relevant training. Monitoring and interpreting data to manage referral targets. Build and maintain relationships with Primary and Secondary care colleagues. Support with recruitment and management of volunteers and peer mentors for the service. Attending local meetings on a regular basis where required to represent ABL, promote Your Health Oldham and maintain local partnerships Working collaboratively with all members of the Your Health Oldham team and undertaking work in other areas when necessary, including delivery for weight management. Delivering community Health MOTs. Supporting the monitoring and evaluation of the service and using formal and informal feedback to constructively shape and develop the service. Update the partnership database with all contacts including required follow up contact and strategic developments required. Attending all relevant team meetings including district team meetings and community engagement meetings, providing engagement updates and contributing to quarterly reports as directed. Reporting against relevant targets, providing regular updates as requested on progress of project. Supporting with communications strategies e.g. public open events, training and awareness raising sessions, communications materials, social media, etc to promote the service and capture referrals -occasional weekend and evening work may be required to support with events etc- Innovative and open minded to new ideas and piloting of different sessions, partnerships or engagement opportunities. Supporting all co-production activities with local residents and stakeholders to support ongoing development of the service. Leading and attending local events across the Borough. Working with the Stakeholder and Partnerships Lead and Head of Service to oversee commitments from the community fund. Skills & Competencies required Be experienced in community engagement and partnership working in a community health environment Experience of building and maintaining partnerships from scratch Positive and proactive with the ability to motivate, engage and support partnership delivery Adept in communication, A confident and approachable communicator who adapts the message to fit the needs of the audience and ability to see the bigger picture in problem solving for community cohesion. Build strong relationships, Foster trust and co-operation among colleagues, stakeholders, community leaders, commissioners and sub-contractors Quality driven; you naturally seek high standards and actively seek to improve them. Value and remain open to new ideas and perspectives. Job description Job responsibilities ABL Health, Oldham CCG and Oldham Council are partnered to deliver the Health Improvement and Weight Management Service titled Your Health Oldham. This transformative service will play a central role in system change, bringing previously separate lifestyle behaviour change functions together into one service. It seeks to work collaboratively with communities to support the transformation of services for the local population. The service will provide integrated behaviour support for smoking cessation, weight management, alcohol reduction, physical activity, cooking and Health MOTs, all embedded in sustainable behaviour change and positive wellbeing. Role Purpose You will be the Community Engagement Officer, covering Oldham for Your Health Oldhams Health Improvement and Weight Management Service. You will be expected to lead on community engagement and drive awareness of the service through our promotions, social media and engagement activities. You will be expected to increase referrals into the service by promoting community engagement and building long-lasting relationships with local partners and other varied stakeholders. This will involve being responsible for developing and maintaining strong, positive and long-lasting relationships with a wide range of stakeholder groups at district level, including but not limited to leisure services, the voluntary, community, faith and social enterprises sector, and community services as well as GP practices and childrens services. You will be a motivated, passionate, organised and proactive communicator, with experience of 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. The role will require dynamic working which embraces the vision and values we wish to establish for the IWS supporting people to achieve healthy lifestyles. 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 and are highly organised this could be the job for you. This is a demanding job, but you will not be on your own. ABLs highly experienced and friendly multi-disciplinary team of Health and Social Care professionals, Business Intelligence, Service Development, Governance, Finance and Business Development are there to support. Additionally, existing experienced delivery teams will be available to support you to drive the Service forward. Main Duties and responsibilities This post will work under the line management of Your Health Oldhams Stakeholder & Partnerships Lead and work closely with the Project Leads for the Stop Smoking and Weight Management services to ensure engagement is aligned to overall service needs. The role will be varied, challenging, and rewarding as you support and develop the service through implementation, delivery, ongoing innovation and service development. Implementing the ABL Community Engagement Strategy to promote the Your Health Oldham. Working with ABLs communication team to help raise the service profile, create and implement the Communications Plan. Engaging local services and partners to ensure local awareness and explore partnership opportunities and co-production activities. Working closely with Project Leads and operational colleagues to manage the referral rates and develop partnerships with all potential referrers in the borough. Organising/setting up training opportunities to train the voluntary and community sector, faith groups, and the Oldham workforce in MECC, RIOW and B.I and other relevant training. Monitoring and interpreting data to manage referral targets. Build and maintain relationships with Primary and Secondary care colleagues. Support with recruitment and management of volunteers and peer mentors for the service. Attending local meetings on a regular basis where required to represent ABL, promote Your Health Oldham and maintain local partnerships Working collaboratively with all members of the Your Health Oldham team and undertaking work in other areas when necessary, including delivery for weight management. Delivering community Health MOTs. Supporting the monitoring and evaluation of the service and using formal and informal feedback to constructively shape and develop the service. Update the partnership database with all contacts including required follow up contact and strategic developments required. Attending all relevant team meetings including district team meetings and community engagement meetings, providing engagement updates and contributing to quarterly reports as directed. Reporting against relevant targets, providing regular updates as requested on progress of project. Supporting with communications strategies e.g. public open events, training and awareness raising sessions, communications materials, social media, etc to promote the service and capture referrals -occasional weekend and evening work may be required to support with events etc- Innovative and open minded to new ideas and piloting of different sessions, partnerships or engagement opportunities. Supporting all co-production activities with local residents and stakeholders to support ongoing development of the service. Leading and attending local events across the Borough. Working with the Stakeholder and Partnerships Lead and Head of Service to oversee commitments from the community fund. Skills & Competencies required Be experienced in community engagement and partnership working in a community health environment Experience of building and maintaining partnerships from scratch Positive and proactive with the ability to motivate, engage and support partnership delivery Adept in communication, A confident and approachable communicator who adapts the message to fit the needs of the audience and ability to see the bigger picture in problem solving for community cohesion. Build strong relationships, Foster trust and co-operation among colleagues, stakeholders, community leaders, commissioners and sub-contractors Quality driven; you naturally seek high standards and actively seek to improve them. Value and remain open to new ideas and perspectives. Person Specification Experience Essential At least 3 years experience in community setting. Experience of working in a health care environment. Demonstrable experience of partnership working. Demonstrable experience of speaking to large groups. Desirable Experience in a leadership role. Previous experience of delivering training programmes. Experience of delivering focus groups. Experience of public speaking. Experience of partnership working/collaborating with various different organisations. Qualifications Essential Degree and/or equivalent experience community healthcare, community development, or Business development. Desirable CIMSPA (previously REPS) qualified Level 2 Gym instructor/Group exercise award or equivalent. Person Specification Experience Essential At least 3 years experience in community setting. Experience of working in a health care environment. Demonstrable experience of partnership working. Demonstrable experience of speaking to large groups. Desirable Experience in a leadership role. Previous experience of delivering training programmes. Experience of delivering focus groups. Experience of public speaking. Experience of partnership working/collaborating with various different organisations. Qualifications Essential Degree and/or equivalent experience community healthcare, community development, or Business development. Desirable CIMSPA (previously REPS) qualified Level 2 Gym instructor/Group exercise award or equivalent. 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. Employer details Employer name ABL Health Ltd Address Room 417, 2nd Floor Chambers Business Centre Chapel Road Oldham OL8 4QQ Employer's website https://www.ablhealth.co.uk/work-for-us/join-our-team/ (Opens in a new tab)