Health and Wellbeing Community Officer - London, United Kingdom - London Borough of Bexley

London Borough of Bexley

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Vacancy Description

Title:

Health and Wellbeing Community Officer

Service Area/School:

Adult Social Care & Health
Public Health

About Us:

Bexley is an outer London Borough with the best of both worlds, located between the hustle and bustle of London and the Garden of England, Kent. Within the borough we have award winning parks, open spaces and listed heritage sites.

We are a dynamic Public Health team working with local partners to make Bexley an even better place to start well, live well and age well.

An opportunity to join the Bexley Public Health team and work with partners and with schools and communities to create healthier environments around schools, helping to deliver Bexley's School Superzones project.

About the Role:

You will support the delivery of a range of activities aiming to create healthier environments around schools, which may include active travel, air quality, the food and drink environment, physical activity, community safety, access to green spaces, and to restrict tobacco and harmful advertising.

The role will have an emphasis on:

Developing and delivering Schools Superzones action plan with partners, including other parts of the councils, schools, residents and communities, local NHS partners, and the voluntary sector.
Leading engagement with and communications to the schools and communities.

The aim of School Superzones is to promote and protect children's health and enable healthy behaviours by using local authority powers and partnership working to implement place-based actions that can create healthier environments around schools.

The role will be a mix of office based and field based, engaging with schools and communities directly to develop and deliver activity in the Slade Green & North End ward in Bexley.

Please refer to the Job Description attached for more information.

We reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date.

You will show the following:
Relevant professional experience managing health promotion or community development projects or programmes
Experience of working in partnership effectively with internal and external stakeholders to plan and deliver projects
Experience working with diverse communities and meeting their needs
Excellent verbal and written communication skills and interpersonal and influencing skills
Knowledge of inequalities in health and how this can impact communities
Understanding of evaluating initiatives and presenting outcomes, data, and reports in different formats to a wide range of audiences
Proactive, resilient, selfmotivated and innovative, as well as being flexible and adaptable in a sometimes rapidly changing environment
For the full list of essential and desirable criteria for this role then please refer to the Person Specification within the Job Description attached.

This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

This post is considered by the authority to be a customer-facing position; as such it falls within scope of the Code of Practice on English language requirement for public sector workers.

The council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements.

The appropriate standards are set out in the JD/Person Specification. These will be applied during the recruitment/selection and probationary stages

How To Apply:

Please note that the system has a one-hour time limit.

We would advise you to prepare your answers separately and then copy and paste into the online form once finalised and have your CV and/or Supporting statement ready to upload.

Additional Information
This role may be available as a development opportunity through secondment for the Council's existing employees. The Council's Secondment Scheme can be found here. If this option is of interest, please contact the recruiting manager.

Contract Duration: