Community Engagement Officer

**Contract Type**: Fixed Term Contract for 2 years

**Contract Reason**: Subject to funding

**Salary**:Grade F. SCP 17 £30,060 - SCP 22 £32,654

**Hours Per Week**:36**hours

**Base Location**:Tameside One, Ashton-under-Lyne

**Assessment Date**: Shortlisting week commencing 17th February, Interviews week commencing 24th February

**Are you looking to make a difference? Do you want to be part of an established team that makes a difference and supports people to improve their health and wellbeing?**

**Public Health Tameside has an exciting opportunity to join the team as a Stop Smoking Community Engagement Officer with a focus on stopping smoking and other tobacco use.**

**The Role**

As a Community Engagement Officer with a focus on supporting communities to stop smoking and other tobacco use, no two days are the samesome days you will be supporting the development of the new community stop smoking service and supporting the staff delivering stop smoking interventions from GP practices. Other days you will be delivering stop smoking training and engaging underrepresented and high-risk communities to work with them to develop appropriate stop smoking support and to support them to access those services.

We are committed to our ambition that the people of our Borough will stay as healthy as possible for as long as possible. To achieve that, we work in collaboration with people to assist them to improve their health, as well as forming partnerships with professionals and we work together for the community we serve. We respect and embrace the diverse Borough that we work in and strive to reduce health inequalities and improve access to services. We also trust the individual contributions of each of our team members and are receptive to innovation and creativity. We firmly believe that people have untapped resources within them, that can be unleashed by providing high quality, non-judgemental support.

To find out more about this role, take a look at the Job Description and Person Specification.

**About You**

Here are some of the skills, knowledge and abilities that we are looking for in our newest Community Engagement Officer:

- You will understand the challenges of the public health / health and wellbeing agenda including the health inequalities experienced by Tameside residents, with particular reference to the tobacco agenda.
- Have a good understanding of the barriers to different population groups in accessing services.
- A good understanding of co-production and person-centred practices.
- Ability to work with and engage with all aspects of the community and all levels of professionals.
- You must enjoy being part of a team; yet possess the personal management skills to work alone.
- Support others in developing creative solutions to problems.
- You need to be reliable, approachable, have excellent presentation / communication skills and a flexible approach to working (occasional evening or weekend working may be required to meet the needs of the service).
- You will need to be highly organised, motivated and resilient.

**About Us**

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.

Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.

We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.

Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here

**Reference Number**: DPT564