Summary

This is a rolling advert - Interviews, offers and rejections will happen on a rolling basis. The advert will close when sufficient applications have been received. Please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application can be considered.

Do you enjoy helping to improve the health of the community?

We have an opportunity for a number of motivated and innovative individuals to join our Health Improvement Service working within our group weight management programme, Healthy Us.

The roles are flexible with the opportunity to work between 22.5 – 37 hours per week as well as some evening and weekend working.

The team is based in Trowbridge but offers flexibility to work part or full time from home or from Council hubs in Chippenham and Salisbury. You will also be required to work in the community as part of your working week.

LIVE WORK INNOVATE

Our vision is to create stronger, more resilient communities and to ensure that people in Wiltshire have healthy, active and high-quality lives. We deliver this vision by improving health and wellbeing across the county, reducing health inequalities, and protecting the most vulnerable.

About the role

Our staff say: “We love working with so many likeminded people, who are passionate about helping others to improve their health and wellbeing. The team are very supportive of each other and encourage each other to be their best”

As a Health Improvement Coach, you will work as part of our delivery team across our community behaviour change intervention programmes and alongside other coaches to support the delivery and administration of behaviour change interventions as part of the health improvement coach service, and across our community behaviour change intervention programmes.

You will work in partnership across the Council and other partner agencies, to improve the health of our Wiltshire population, and deliver programmes and initiatives to promote positive behaviour change

The role will also require you to work on wider projects and initiatives to improve the health and wellbeing of the Wiltshire population and to help us put public health at the heart of all public services.

Due to the community focus of the role travel across Wiltshire will form part of the job role requirements.

About you

We will look for you to be innovative and motivational with experience of community engagement, programme development, design, and delivery within the community, experience of presenting to audiences and/or a proven record of working with the community to deliver programmes and initiatives to promote positive behaviour change.

You should hold a degree/qualification or equivalent academic ability as well as a good knowledge of different aspects of health improvement and behaviour change interventions.

If you are an experienced professional with the commitment and passion to work in a fast-paced and challenging environment, we would very much like to hear from you. You will work in a supportive environment, whilst developing your own public health career within a passionate team.

Interview dates to be confirmed on shortlisting.