Happy 'N' Healthy 0-19 Lead | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 04 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 May 2024 |
| Location: | Bootle, L30 7TP |
| Company: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6158227/350-CC6158227 |
Summary
An opportunity has arisen for a new and innovative post in Sefton as the Happy ‘N’ Healthy 0-19 Lead. SCPHN qualification required.
The 0-19 Lead role will form part of the core team consisting of three staff members, alongside an Active Sefton lead and a Public Health Support Officer. The core team act as the central point to co-ordinate integrated working, as well as providing specialist advice, easy navigation into other services, training and partnership working with wider stakeholders. It is also the role of the core team to ensure that public health messaging across all themed areas is embedded in service delivery of partners. Whilst also raising awareness of the service with wider stakeholders to ensure children and young people can access public health support that will benefit their needs and compliments other support they may be receiving.
This will be achieved by facilitating strong partnership working, integration, co-production, and co-delivery between the six children and young people’s Public Health commissioned services (0-19 Service, Kooth, Active Sefton, Change Grow Live, Smokefree Sefton and Sexual Health).
The post is being offered at 37.5 hours per week for nine months fixed term/secondment basis.
To work in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations in the development and delivery of quality, integrated services to children in Sefton and their parents and carers to promote the public health objectives and deliver on related targets.
To provide proactive and responsive services, delivered flexibly across a range of settings to meet service user need using agreed public health principles.
To provide leadership across the wider team, acting as a positive role model for staff who may not be employed by health by demonstrating excellent standards of practice and promoting the Public Health agenda.
To work with Local Authority colleagues to develop joint working practises and oversee projects related to partnership working based on public health agenda such as obesity, mental and community resourcefulness.
To lead on public health projects ensuring the reporting of results and making recommendation to Local Authority on future priorities.
Develop integrated working practices across the six commissioned public health services in Sefton.
The applicant must hold a SCPHN qualification - recordable on the NMC database
Interviews are planned for week commencing - WC- 15th April 2024
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Please see attached Job Description & Person Spec for main responsibilities of the position being advertised
This advert closes on Wednesday 10 Apr 2024