Community Engagement and Resilience Officer
6 days ago
This role is funded through the NHS Charities Together (NHSCT) Community Resilience Grants Fund. The grants fund aims to support Ambulance Trusts to increase community resilience in areas experiencing health and healthcare inequality.
Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust (YAS) have successfully secured funding from the grants fund to fund a two-year fixed-term post that will draw on the expertise of the Trust's Community Engagement and Community Resilience Teams to engage with disadvantaged communities and deliver a range of interventions that:
Increase community resilience and community capacity
Develop relationships between communities and the Trust
Increase awareness of life-saving skills and YAS services
Develop assets and resources within communities that can be sustained beyond the life of the project.
This is an exciting opportunity to engage with communities across Yorkshire and make a difference to people's lives.
**The postholder will**:
Develop and lead community engagement programmes that use involvement, coproduction, training and education to deliver the objectives within the Trust’s Strategy.
Coordinate community engagement and community resilience activities, working across organisational boundaries to establish and deliver programmes of work.
Design, develop and deliver education and training interventions, (covering use of and access to services, life-saving skills and volunteering and employment opportunities).
Design, develop and deliver a range of programmes for communities
experiencing poor health outcomes and experiencing barriers to accessing services.
Use public engagement approaches to involve community members in the design, delivery and evaluation of training and education programmes.
Use public engagement approaches to seek out the views of the communities we are working with and their representatives.
Establish and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Evaluate the effectiveness of community engagement activities and programmes.
Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) NHS Trust geographically covers nearly 6,000 square miles of varied terrain, from isolated moors and dales to urban areas, coastline and inner cities.
We serve a population of over five million people across Yorkshire and the Humber and strive to ensure that patients receive the right response to their care needs as quickly as possible, wherever they live.
We employ more than 7,100 staff, who together with over 1,300 volunteers, enable us to provide a vital 24-hour, seven-days-a-week, emergency and healthcare service.
Our ambition is to be an employer of choice, and we are continuously working across our partnership to improve our collective offer to staff in areas like health and wellbeing, benefits and flexible working incl. hybrid working.
**Benefits**:
- Flexible working including part-time hours, job shares and flexible hours, agile working (role dependant)
- 27 days annual leave, increasing to 33 with service.
- Contributory Pension.
- NHS Discounts including shops, restaurants, gyms etc.
- Car lease and other salary sacrifice schemes (salary dependent)
- Dedicated employee assistance and counselling service.
- Opportunities for research participation, career progression and ongoing development.
- Well respected, committed and supported staff networks for our workforce.
For an in depth description of the main responsibilities of the role please see attached Job description.
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