Health Promotion Practitioner Specialist | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 23 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £42,618 Per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 June 2024 |
| Location: | Oxford, OX3 9DU |
| Company: | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6204204/321-CSS-6204204-B6 |
Summary
We are seeking a kind, respectful and inspirational Health Promotion Practitioner Specialist to work within the Here for Health team at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH).
The Here for Health Service is an innovative, dynamic service supporting the health and wellbeing of OUH staff, patients, and their families. We are highly respected and provide a pivotal role in supporting the Trust’s strategic health and wellbeing objectives for Our People, Our Patients and Our Populations, in line with the NHS Long Term Plan and NHS People’s Plan.
In 2023 the Here for Health team won the staff recognition award for Respect.“Here for Health make great efforts to embed equality, diversity, and inclusion into their service to ensure that the needs of our diverse staff and patients are met. They are an example of great practice in this space and there is a lot that can be learnt from their approach.”
Our commitment is to provide, choice, voice, and time. We focus on what matters to the individual to support problem solving and equip them with skills to make the changes they want to make. We use an evidenced based Lifestyle Medicine approach to support people in the self-management of health behaviours to prevent, reduce and delay the need for care. Using recognised behaviour change skills and techniques to create and sustain lifestyle changes.
Support people to eat more healthily, stay active, sleep better, improve social connections and mental health, and reduce harmful substance use. Considering broader factors impacting on individuals’ health and wellbeing and being able to promote and refer to a variety of resources and community services for specialist support.
The successful candidate will have recent experience in utilising motivational interviewing as part of their professional practice alongside the knowledge and skills to provide appropriate health promotion information and support to both patients and staff. Ideally being trained as a stop smoking practitioner.
You will be working across professional boundaries with multidisciplinary healthcare professionals to have a positive impact on the future health of the populations we serve. An ability to work across organisational sectors with external partners is an essential element of this role. Experience and passion for addressing health inequalities is desirable and a determination to work toward inclusive practice essential.
This diverse and exciting role will give you the opportunity to further enhance and develop your health promotion and motivational interviewing skills; work collaboratively with colleagues to ensure the smooth running and on-going development of the service; play a key role in the mentoring and professional development of other team members; undertake projects and coordinate health promotion campaigns and student placements.
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Please read the attached job description and person specification for a full outline of the role and it's responsibilities.
This advert closes on Thursday 6 Jun 2024