Healthier Lifestyle Team Leader

Job title:

Healthier Lifestyle Team Leader

Company

Somerset County Council

Job description

We’d also like to use analytics cookies so we can understand how you use our website and make improvements to your services.Accept additional cookies Reject additional cookiesSearchSearch Somerset CouncilPopular searchesJobHealthier Lifestyle Team LeaderClosing in 14 days (12 August, 2024)Salary £30,296 to £33,945 per annum
Department Public Health
Working pattern Full Time
Location Taunton
Closing date 12 August, 2024About the job

• To operationally lead the healthier lifestyles team in public health delivering behavioural programmes based on public health priorities including NHS Health checks.
• Required to travel across Somerset.
• This role is Hybrid working comprising frequent community and office working with some home-based work. Office work will be largely based at County Hall in Taunton. Flexible working welcomed with the occasional evening or weekend work.
• Annual leave entitlement for this grade is 30 days.
• This is a 3 year fixed term appointment.

We’re working to improve the lives of people in Somerset – and you’ll be a key part of that. Your day-to-day work will involve:

• Supporting the healthier lifestyle service manager in implementation of service objectives including NHS health checks and healthy conversations training.
• Lead and manage a team of health improvement and health check practitioners to deliver on a range of community, workplace and training initiatives aligned to relevant public health priorities.
• Develop effective partnership and engagement approaches for innovative delivery with primary care, voluntary and community sector and local population groups.

We offer ongoing support, training and guidance to help you be the best you can be. But it will really help if you:

• Are experienced in line management, supporting and developing a team.
• Are experienced in project management and achieving positive outcomes.
• Have experience of developing strong and effective relationships with health and community partners.
• Have an understanding of public health programmes such as NHS Health checks, healthy eating, weight management and physical activity.

We’re proud to be here for the people of Somerset. And that means everyone in Somerset. An important part of this is ensuring that we are as diverse and inclusive as the people and communities we serve.We welcome applications from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences to enrich our team. You can always contact the hiring manager for a chat if there’s anything you want to talk about before you apply.We are proud to offer an environment that is supportive and rewarding, working as part of a team who are passionate about the work they do to improve the lives of people in Somerset.We offer great training and development opportunities, with supportive management. As well as this, we have some fantastic employee benefits available:

• We promote a healthy work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements wherever possible, including working from home.
• Generous annual leave allowance, with the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Staff discounts in gyms.
• Employee Assistance for the times you may need some support and a variety of employee wellbeing services.
• Auto enrolment onto our generous Pension Scheme and optional pension enhancement through our Additional Voluntary Contribution scheme.
• A Flexible Benefits Scheme via salary sacrifice to obtain a cycle for work and health screenings.
• My Staff Shop offering discounts in shops, online shopping, restaurants, cinema tickets, insurance benefits and more

For an informal chat about the role, you can contact Kate Anderson on 07976 423670 or kate.anderson@somerset.gov.uk.Interviews will take place on 19th and 20th August.If you have everything you need, just hit the apply button. We can’t wait to hear from you.Related informationIs this page useful? Yes NoThank you for your feedbackIf you’d like to send us more details about your experience you can use our feedback form. This will be used to make improvements across the website.CloseThank you for your feedbackTo help us improve somerset.gov.uk, we would like to know more about your website visit today. It would really help if you could fill in our feedback form. It will take only 2 minutes.CloseThank you for your feedbackGet in touchpage for more information and advice on how to get in touch with one of our support teams

Expected salary

£30296 – 33945 per year

Location

Taunton, Somerset

Job date

Wed, 31 Jul 2024 02:32:27 GMT

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