Health Improvement Specialist

3 weeks ago


Leeds, United Kingdom Leeds City Council Full time

Health Improvement Specialist (Older People) Grade PO2

**Internal vacancy. Applications will only be considered from existing Leeds City Council employees.**

**Health Improvement Specialist (Older People)**

An exciting opportunity has arisen at Leeds Public Health.

Our ambition is for Leeds to be the best city in the UK; one that is compassionate and caring, with a strong economy, tackling poverty and reducing inequalities. We want to be a healthy city for all ages, where people who are the poorest improve their health the fastest. Leeds Public Health plays a major part in delivering this vision as part of the highly collaborative approach of ‘Team Leeds’, and we have the ideal partners and assets in Leeds to succeed.

Initial priorities will be a range of areas such as healthy ageing, falls prevention, Age Friendly Leeds (wider determinants) and Dying Matters. The post holder will provide public health support to the development and implementation of programmes to improve the health and wellbeing of older people with a focus on the most vulnerable and reducing health inequalities.

**Specifically the role will involve**:

- Supporting communications for Age Friendly, falls prevention, healthy ageing and health protection priorities for older people
- Supporting engagement and analysis to feed into health needs assessments on healthy ageing, mental health in older people and age friendly (including housing, employment and transport)
- Developing and delivering projects and training to address identified needs
- Supporting monitoring of grants, contracts and strategies, including the Age Friendly board, falls prevention and healthy ageing initiatives
- Supporting planning and delivery of partnership meetings such as the Age Friendly Leeds Partnership, Falls Steering Group etc
- Working in partnership to deliver these priorities

You have the right to request information in alternative formats should you require this, please see the accessibility page on this website for further details.

**We promote diversity and want a workforce that reflects the population of Leeds and the communities we serve. Leeds City Council is an Inclusive employer, ranked 70 on the Stonewall top 100 employers 2023 list. We are also an Age friendly employer, a Mindful employer and a Disability Confident leader.**

**This role is based in the UK. Employment is conditional on confirmation of the right to work in the UK - either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU Settlement scheme or having secured any other relevant work visa. If you do not have the right to work in the UK and the role does not meet eligibility for sponsorship, please consider carefully whether you meet the eligibility to apply.



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