Job summary
ABL Health delivers the Integrated Health Improvement
Service, Your Health Dudley, commissioned by the Dudley Council Public Health
Team. This transformative service will play a central role in improving the
health and well-being of residents of Dudley. The service will provide
integrated behaviour support to help people move more, drink less alcohol, stop
smoking and lose weight. The service will also offer wellness coaching for
families, deliver community health checks, offer advice and guidance, and
proactively signpost to relevant organisations. All of this is embedded in
sustainable behaviour change and positive well-being. This post will focus on the wellness coaching
for families with school age children.
Main duties of the job
The post holder has responsibility
for delivering the following key result areas:
Increase new referrals to the service and reduce drop out rates
Provide one to one family support, mainly face to face but
sometimes by phone or video call
Work with local schools to encourage parents to engage with the
service
Build on network of signposting opportunities to enrich support
offered
Build local links with other support service staff to encourage
referrals and partnership working
Promote the service at local meetings, networks and events
Work with Service Manager and Coordinator to ensure service is achieving
KPIs
Work with data team to ensure system reporting meets the needs of
the service
Attend ABL forums, meets and training as applicable
Work with marketing to create family friendly booklet material
Work with system in order to extract data for use in reports and
at managers request from ABL meetings and updates
Maintain good working relationship with Family Commissioners
Co-create and deliver healthy workshops for use with families,
such as the Healthy Lunch box session
Group workshop delivery out in community, such as healthy eating
workshops, healthy pizza making and delivering fun and informative nutrition
topics
To safeguard all families and report in line with ABLs
safeguarding policy
About us
ABL is an exciting fast-growing community health
organisation. ABL is an experienced, CQC registered, provider of community
health services. As an organisation we
are passionate about delivering evidence based, innovative, effective and
relevant health care services in partnership with individuals, communities and
stakeholders.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are looking for a passionate and dedicated individual to join our Your Health Dudley team, an Integrated Health Improvement Service commissioned by Dudley Councils Public Health Team. This role will focus on wellness coaching for families with school-age children, supporting them in making sustainable lifestyle changes to improve their overall health and well-being. The ideal candidate will be responsible for increasing new referrals, reducing drop-out rates, and delivering one-to-one family support, primarily in person but also via phone or video calls when necessary. They will work closely with local schools to engage parents, build a strong network of signposting opportunities, and collaborate with other support services to encourage referrals and partnership working. Additionally, they will promote the service at local events, help develop family-friendly resources, co-create and deliver interactive health workshops, and ensure accurate data reporting to track service outcomes. A proactive and community-focused approach is essential, along with a commitment to safeguarding families and adhering to ABL Healths policies and procedures.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are looking for a passionate and dedicated individual to join our Your Health Dudley team, an Integrated Health Improvement Service commissioned by Dudley Councils Public Health Team. This role will focus on wellness coaching for families with school-age children, supporting them in making sustainable lifestyle changes to improve their overall health and well-being. The ideal candidate will be responsible for increasing new referrals, reducing drop-out rates, and delivering one-to-one family support, primarily in person but also via phone or video calls when necessary. They will work closely with local schools to engage parents, build a strong network of signposting opportunities, and collaborate with other support services to encourage referrals and partnership working. Additionally, they will promote the service at local events, help develop family-friendly resources, co-create and deliver interactive health workshops, and ensure accurate data reporting to track service outcomes. A proactive and community-focused approach is essential, along with a commitment to safeguarding families and adhering to ABL Healths policies and procedures.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Experience in a related field: e.g. Families work, Nutrition,
- Experience of delivering group work and 1-1s
- Experience in using data (service data, population health data) to inform service development to improve outcomes.
- experience of working with vulnerable children/adults
- Understanding of Health Improvement, behaviour change and local, regional, and national policies.
- Knowledge of safeguarding in a community health setting.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement skills.
Desirable
- Demonstrable experience with service improvement measures.
- Experience of delivering HENRY
- Safeguarding level 1
- Knowledge of quality improvement models and approaches.
- Strong IT skills, particularly with the use of Microsoft Office packages and databases
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Experience in a related field: e.g. Families work, Nutrition,
- Experience of delivering group work and 1-1s
- Experience in using data (service data, population health data) to inform service development to improve outcomes.
- experience of working with vulnerable children/adults
- Understanding of Health Improvement, behaviour change and local, regional, and national policies.
- Knowledge of safeguarding in a community health setting.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement skills.
Desirable
- Demonstrable experience with service improvement measures.
- Experience of delivering HENRY
- Safeguarding level 1
- Knowledge of quality improvement models and approaches.
- Strong IT skills, particularly with the use of Microsoft Office packages and databases
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.
