Healthy Schools Engagement Worker

**Healthy Schools Engagement Worker working in Harlow and Epping Forest - Full Time Position**

**(Salary negotiable within banding)**

**About our service**

The Essex **Child** and **Family** Wellbeing **Service** (ECFWS) brings **together** a range of existing **services**, having been commissioned by Essex County Council and the West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group.

The **service**, which is provided by Virgin **Care** in partnership **with** Barnardo's, ensures that **families** continue to have easy access to local **services**, **with** staff able to reach **children** and **families** in the community; whether in one of **our Family** Hubs or Delivery Sites, an Early Years Setting or School, or in a **family**'s home. This flexible and innovative new way of **working** is about providing **services** without walls and ensuring those **families** who need **support** the most are easily reached.

Broad areas of **support** and **service** delivery are:

- **Health** Visiting
- Parenting **Support**:

- School Nursing
- **Family Health**:

- Resilience and **Child** Development
- **Support** for ages 0-19 (25 SEND)
- **We are seeking a passionate, dynamic and experienced practitioner to w**ork with schools, partner organisations and families to raise the profile of public health needs and work in partnership to narrow health inequalities for the schoolpopulation.

Healthy Schools Engagement Worker role:

- To coordinate and undertake health needs assessments in schools
- To assist schools in gathering, understanding and utilising health and wellbeing data
- To identify, prioritise and implement programmes of support in response to needs of the school population through the development of a robust action plan and subsequent monitoring
- Lead and coordinate the Healthy Schools engagement process.
- Co-ordinate and deliver Healthy Schools network meetings and training sessions
- Provide support to schools through 1-1/group intervention or training.
- Actively participate in Quality Assurance

A valid driving licence and use of a car is essential for this role.

**_As per NHS guidance this role will require successful applicants to evidence immunisations or immunity for MMR and Chicken Pox. This is due to the clinical focus of some tasks and the requirement to work with vulnerable families, young peopleand children_**

**_The roles within this service may also require the successful applicant to wear PPE including the wearing of a protective mask, to remain compliant with any future mandatory requirements introduced by the Government/NHS._**

WORKPLACE OFFER: WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU

The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to
embrace this new way of working. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our
workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our
stores, services, working at home, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.

Flexibility

Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.

About Barnardo's

At Barnardo's we believe in children - no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment processfor this role.