Healthy Schools Advisor

6 months ago

Kettering, United Kingdom North Northamptonshire Council Full time

About the role
We are looking for a Healthy Schools Advisor to join the Public Health team in North Northamptonshire Council. This role provides a rare opportunity to become part of the highly ambitious Healthy Schools team and help develop a service which aims to:

- improve health and wellbeing of whole school communities
- empower schools to identify, understand and address health priorities within their setting
- promote a holistic approach to health and wellbeing, with a focus on prevention and early intervention
- build strong and trusted partnerships with a wide range of organisations
- provide the best possible service to our customers.

What will you be doing?
**Principal Responsibilities**

1. To contribute towards the production of an annual Action Plan, in support of the ‘North Northamptonshire Healthy Schools Programme’ - coordinating and implementing specific development work to ensure the objectives of the programme are met.

2. To ensure that all partner organisations understand the principles of Public Health & Wellbeing and seek to ensure that those principles are built into their development plans and are reflected in their policies and strategies within education settings.

3. To co-ordinate the assessment framework, capability and needs of the settings countywide in collaboration with the key partners, as it relates to the implementation of the action plan.

4. To work with target geographic areas and priority schools, as identified by the ‘North Northamptonshire School Health Improvement Programme’ supporting them to develop approaches to reduce health inequalities and build resilience.

5. To promote and facilitate working partnerships between statutory and non-statutory organisations, ensuring that projects/initiatives are integrated with other education based activities.

6. To assist in the production and monitoring of appropriate Performance Indicators, providing the Core Team with relevant information, when requested, that can be used as a basis for reporting progress to partners and the general public.

7. Ensure that North Northamptonshire Public Health policies, procedures, minimum operating standards and guidelines are met and adhered to (e.g. Safeguarding, Health & Wellbeing Strategy and Public Health Outcome Framework).

8. Provide advice and support to the North Northamptonshire Healthy Schools Website & interactive online platform, assisting in updating and increasing the range of information available online.

9. Input into the production of reports as required.

10. To ensure that reasonable care is taken at all times for the health, safety and welfare of yourself and other persons, and to comply with policies and procedures relating to health and safety and risk assessment within the service.

About you
**Education, Qualifications and Training**
- Essential Criteria_

A Level or equivalent qualification within Health & Wellbeing, Education or Community Development-related field
- Desirable Criteria_

A qualification relevant to Health & Wellbeing, Education or Community Development

**Experience and Knowledge**
- Essential Criteria_

Sound understanding of Health & Wellbeing and community development including behaviour change approaches and use of insight

Knowledge of the principles of project planning and implementation

Experience of developing and writing annual development plans

Experience of developing relationships and working in partnerships with a range of organisations

Experience of working in an education setting or school environment
- Desirable Criteria_

Experience of report writing and collecting data

**Ability and Skills**
- Essential Criteria_

Able to produce long term plans with clear outcomes and to monitor and evaluate their effectiveness

Ability to manage specific areas of a project/event

Demonstrate an ability to facilitate and nurture partnership working

Excellent communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills

Ability to work as part of a team

Excellent personal organisation skills

Able to prioritise/meet deadlines as and when required

IT literate with understanding and experience of Microsoft Office products
- Desirable Criteria_

Evidence of skills in publicity and promotion

**Equal Opportunities**
- Essential Criteria_

Ability to demonstrate awareness/understanding of equal opportunities and other people’s behaviour, physical, social and welfare needs

**Additional Factors**
- Essential Criteria_

Commitment to equality of access and inclusiveness of activities and awareness of equal opportunity issues

Flexibility in organising work and time including managing/evening/ weekend work

Able to travel readily to a variety of work-related locations

Ability to meet objectives on own initiatives

About us
We are a new unitary council, established in April 2021; we are one of the largest unitary councils in the country. Our vision for North Northants is to be 'A place where everyone has the best opportunities and quali

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