Job summary
- Main area
- Health Promotion with young people
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Fixed term: 6 months (to cover maternity leave)
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (3 week days)
- Job ref
- 844-7070435-A
- Employer
- Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Highfield Centre, Victoria Central Hospital
- Town
- Wallasey
- Salary
- £26,530 - £29,114 PA (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/06/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 30/06/2025
Employer heading
Let's Talk service health and wellbeing advisor
Band 4
Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust's common purpose:
We will support you and your community to live well.
Our values:
Compassion
Supportive and caring, listening to others.
Open
Communicating openly, honestly and sharing ideas.
Trust
Trusted to deliver, feeling valued and safe.
Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust provides high quality community health and care services which are responsive to the needs of our local population. Services are delivered by our dedicated and innovative multi disciplinary professionals and supported by equally committed staff behind the scenes. We strive to continue developing and improving our services by working with and listening to our populations, partners, commissioners and staff.
WCHC offers you a great opportunity to be a part of a talented, passionate and committed team delivering excellent community based services across Cheshire and Merseyside.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join the service delivering health promoting programmes in schools and youth settings, and facilitating drop-ins for young people to build knowledge and resilience as well as reducing risks . This vacancy will be specifically focused on the aspect of relationships and sex education to cover a maternity leave.
Main duties of the job
To deliver a range of health promoting programmes alongside sensitive and responsive strategies and activities for inclusion in schools and a variety of settings including: relationship and sexual health, mental wellbeing, physical activity, substance misuse, oral health, food and nutrition and lifestyle/weight management.
To develop and deliver health care and health promotion as a member of the Let’s Talk Service, using evidence-based practice and accessing professional leadership, management, and supervision.
To contribute to the development of best practice and facilitate shared learning to develop services and initiatives that meet local needs for children and young people, in relation to aims and objectives of Wirral Community NHS Foundation Trust.
To develop effective links with key people in delivering services.
Working for our organisation
Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by CQC (Dec 2023) with some outstanding areas.
As an aspiring outstanding Trust we have numerous policies and procedures in place which provide standard organisational ways of working, in line with organisational objectives, relevant legislation and requirements. Policies allow for continuity and consistency within the Trust. Employees must abide by and adhere to all Wirral Community NHS Trust’s policies, at all times.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See attached JD & PS
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
Essential criteria
- Training in the delivery of an area of health and wellbeing with young people specific to the ‘Let’s talk’ service: relationships and sex education; drugs education; or healthy weight
- Previous Training in children’s safeguarding
EXPERIENCE & KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
- Demonstratable experience of working with groups of vulnerable young people
- Up to date with current guidance on at least one area of health and wellbeing delivered by the service: relationships and sex education; drugs education; or healthy weight
- Experience of the issues affecting young people, particularly vulnerable or excluded groups
- Understand the importance of maintaining WCHCT’s confidentiality policy and the law, guidance and safeguarding issues relating to advice and treatment offered to under 16’s.
- Has knowledge of social and situational factors influencing children and young peoples health and wellbeing
- Understands the principles of equality and diversity
SKILLS & ABILITIES
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills, especially with children and young people and excluded groups
- Good verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills
- Able to work as part of a team and independently
- Ability to network and build sustainable working partnerships with other agencies and key stakeholders.
- Ability to organise own workload and work without direct supervision
PERSONAL QUALITIES
Essential criteria
- Committed to working in a trauma informed way
- Committed to creating equal opportunities for children and young people
- Enthusiastic about making a difference to children and young people’s lives
- Ability to be flexible in terms of working days and hours, including occasional evening working
- Holds a current driving license and has use of own vehicle
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jayne Price
- Job title
- 0-19 Enhanced Service Development Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07827358289
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