Public Health Education Assistant

3 weeks ago


Ashford, United Kingdom Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust Full time

As a Public Health Education Assistant, you will be a valued and welcomed addition to the Education Team within the health visiting service. This new and exciting role brings an opportunity for those who work with children aged 0-5 years and have an interest in training, quality, developing and supporting staff. By working as part of the education team you will contribute to the learning and development programmes delivered within the service, enabling the workforce to provide evidence-based practice, in line with national and local policies and procedures This will include supporting the delivery of face to face and online training programmes, supervision and assessment of unregistered patient facing colleagues in all aspects of their role.

We have two full time vacancies, one is a substantive post and one is a secondment or fixed term contract until September 2024.

We offer excellent internal and external training to support your development. Please feel free to contact us for an informal discussion.

Band 5 Public Health Education Assistants work closely with the people who use our services, families, friends and carers and play an important contribution in how people experience our services.

You're expected to have a robust knowledge of the healthy child programme, delivering evidenced based interventions and acting as a role model for others. You will communicate and maintain excellent working relationships with all those that use, commission and work within the services delivered. You will support the education leads in training and development of the workforce.

You will undertake direct clinical work for a minimum 20% of their time through supporting an identified district.

One of the largest community NHS trusts in the UK, KCHFT are rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC. We’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of care to patients and deliver excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our valuesCompassionateAspirationalResponsiveExcellent

We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, which leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. So, all our colleagues have equal access to career opportunities.

We’ve signed up to be a real UK living wage employer. The real Living Wage is the only UK wage rate voluntarily paid by 7,000+ UK businesses who believe their staff deserve a fair wage. Committing to the real UK Living Wage is one way we’re delivering our pledge to be the best employer

Flexibility is another way we do this. In the NHS, we’re reminded every day how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement without having to sacrifice time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both

Looking for professional development? We can support that too Ourcareer pathwayswill help you achieve your aspirations

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

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Good luck We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity

Although vaccination against COVID-19 is not mandatory, we are strongly encouraging colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.



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