Health Improvement Officer

2 weeks ago

Islington, United Kingdom Islington Council Full time

We would like to appoint an enthusiastic, reliable and motivated Health Improvement Officer to join our dynamic team.

This is an exciting opportunity to work with a variety of partners including schools and Early Years, Public Health and local voluntary organisations.

You will be able to work with a range of partners to improve children’s, young people’s and parents’ health and wellbeing through capacity building and service development.

You will need to be able to quickly gain trust and credibility with a range of professionals, be a great communicator, reflective and creatively responsive. You will also need to be very well organised, with strong communication and writing skills. Experience of working to support children’s and families’ health and wellbeing and a degree in nutrition are vital.

Working with Holiday Activity and Food programme to ensure lunches provided at holiday activities meet the school food standards and are appetising and appropriate for the needs of the children and young people.

Other work, including delivering training and working directly with families, to improve the nutritional outcomes of children and young people as required by the service.

**Closing date**: Wednesday 22nd March 2023 at 23:59

**Proposed Interview date**: Wednesday 29th March 2023

Islington has well established and highly regarded support for Early Years and school settings to help the health and wellbeing of our children and young people and their families.

1) Work with schools, early years services, community settings and partners to improve children and young people’s lunch and snack times, including during the school holidays:
a) Advise settings on menus to ensure they meet current guidance through training and direct work with settings
b) Work with settings to improve children and young people’s lunchtime experience, including through observations, staff training and co-production with pupils
c) Develop and run projects with different settings to improve snacks for children and young people
d) Provide advice and guidance as part of the commissioning and ongoing monitoring arrangements for the school meal contract, and other relevant projects as appropriate
2) Work with schools, early years services, community settings and partners to support Islington’s work to address food poverty.
3) Work with Islington’s Healthy Early Years (HEY) team to support settings to achieve the HEY award through menu support, training staff on healthy lifestyle messages, and contribute to quality assurance of the awards.
4) Work with the Families for Life team to support work with families on healthy eating and food poverty, including through newsletters, training and events.
5) Adhere to London Borough of Islington policies in relation to service delivery, including safeguarding, information sharing and data protection, record keeping, health and safety, equal opportunities, supervision and customer care.

6) Work in accordance with national and local Child Protection and Safeguarding policies and procedures.

7) Provide regular updates, briefings and other reports to management and project sponsors, including Heads of Service/s and senior officers.

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