Community Health Resilience Practitioner

3 weeks ago


Durham, United Kingdom Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Our vision is that County Durham will be a great place for children and young people to grow up in and for Durham to be a place where all children are healthy, happy, safe and achieving their potential.

**The five priority themes to achieve this are**:

- Growing up in County Durham
- Integration
- Prevention and Early Help
- Best Start in Life
- Supporting Young People into Adulthood (14-25)

County Durham is committed to genuine co-production with our children, families and communities.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Community Health Resilience Practitioner in our 0-25 Family Health Service in County Durham. This is a Countywide post. As a new non-traditional health role within the 0-25 Family Health Service contract it is unique to County Durham.

**The role**:

- Supports the 0-25 FHS Social Value agenda
- Increases volunteering experiences
- Engages with Area Action Partnerships (AAP) who are identifying community need and supporting funding streams to provide interventions.
- Builds community capacity
- Profiles communities to support service planning at place
- Ensures the voice and needs of children, young people and families, and communities are included in design of activities and services
- Embeds the County Durham Approach to Wellbeing

Please note, this role is fixed term for 24 months.

As part of the 0-25 team, the post holder will support the promotion of integrated and collaborative working; build relationships with key partners to develop place based care, ensure the best use of resources, and address health inequalities as is a key priority within this role.

Excellent people management skills, engagement skills, relationship building skills and resilience are required for this role. In addition, support with change management, project management and a working of knowledge of governance.

The post holder will will support the clinical and management team in developing and driving a culture of continuous quality improvement as well as ensuring teams are delivering high quality services efficiently.

**Areas of specific Responsibility include**:
Support the leadership of the Youth Practitioner Team to enable children, young people and families to identify shared priorities and support the development of locally led initiatives to build stronger, safer and resilient communities empowered to promote protective factors to physical and mental health and emotional wellbeing.

Support with the leadership of the 0-25 Family Health Service integrated approach with the Early Help System in county Durham.

At Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust we provide outstanding care to both our patients and our staff. We support staff through benefits, health and wellbeing initiatives and opportunities for personal and professional development.
- An inclusive and supportive culture our Trust encourages staff to bring their whole selves to work and active Staff Networks identify areas for improvement.
- Staff Recognition - as well as regular appraisals, we recognise staff with our Making a Difference, Team of the Month Awards & Colleague Recognition Awards
- Employee Support and wellbeing - we have a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme, counselling service and fast track physiotherapy service for employees.
- Staff Benefits - We have a range of staff benefits and schemes to support staff health, engagement, wellbeing and inclusion.

For further information on this position please see the Job Description & Personal Specification attached.



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