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Health Promotion Practitioner
| Posting date: | 31 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £22,878.00 to £25,648.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £22878.00 - £25648.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 August 2025 |
| Location: | Taunton, TA1 4DY |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | K0002-25-0026 |
Summary
Work closely within and across the Healthy Lifestyles Services teams. Establish partnership networks with a range of multi-disciplinary providers (from diverse disciplines, backgrounds and settings) in Public Health, Primary and Secondary Care and Communities to improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities using both population-based and person-centred approaches. Partner with existing providers to strengthen, sustain and scale services, and develop new structures based on needs identification. Promote the importance of living healthy lifestyles through sustained self-management to address eight integrated dimensions of wellbeing; physical, emotional, social, spiritual/cultural, intellectual, occupational, financial and environmental throughout the life course. Emphasise physical wellbeing with focus on healthy choices for active lifestyles, healthier eating, healthy weight management, no smoking, reduced alcohol consumption, healthy sleep and the collective positive impact on overall wellbeing. Support the co-development, testing, delivery and evaluation of a range of practice-based service offerings (co-actions) to promote wellbeing to enable environments for community building, individual behaviour changes and systems transformation. Identify and work with community leaders and with providers to understand the local assets, needs and make recommendations in terms of developing opportunities to build healthy communities. Lead engagements with communities, families and individuals to inform the offering of contextually appropriate Healthy Lifestyles Services across the life course. Participate in the training and support of an expanding network of multi-disciplinary provider and volunteer Wellbeing Champions to assist with healthy lifestyles promotion across Somerset. Promote and support MECC (Making Every Contact Count) for non-specialist professionals and direct people to the website for further self-directed support. Increase population awareness and understanding about the impact of healthy lifestyles choices across the life course in preventing, reducing and managing chronic health conditions; in promoting healthy aging; in improving quality of life and in promoting individual and population wellbeing. Using a blended train-the-trainer and person-centred approach, co-design, deliver and evaluate the impact of county-wide Healthy Lifestyles Services offerings, covering all eight dimensions of wellbeing to target groups, eg children and families, schools, people with disabilities, older people and those living in areas of deprivation, where unhealthy lifestyles are more prevalent. Motivate and empower communities, families and individuals to make and maintain positive healthy lifestyles behaviour changes through realistic actions considering health, budget, time and/or environmental constraints. Embed and communicate information about the inter-relationship between the eight dimensions of wellbeing in a way that motivates communities, families and individuals to change their lifestyle behaviours. Participate in ongoing co-development, implementation, evaluation and review of practice-based healthy lifestyles resources and key messages (digital and print) used for communication, promotional events, community activations and media campaigns. Promote mass media campaigns, localising and magnifying national campaigns. Update and manage social media and website platforms that offer validated local information and signposting to online resources, approved apps, etc. Participate in the co-development and undertaking of research, monitoring and evaluation activities to strengthen Healthy Lifestyles Services offerings. Represent the Healthy Lifestyles Services at related meetings and workgroups. Inspire a Public Health Culture of practice-based change, innovation, inclusiveness and partnerships to improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities across Somerset. Contacts & Relationships Develop and consolidate multi-disciplinary and multi-sectoral partnerships with communities, community groups, voluntary groups, Primary and Secondary Care and with District, Town and Parish Councils to drive forward community participation in the co-development, implementation and evaluation of Healthy Lifestyles Services offerings across the life course. Work closely with communities to ensure Healthy Lifestyles Services offerings are equity, assets and needs-based and outcomes focused. Identify and expand a network of multi-disciplinary provider and volunteer Wellbeing Champions to enable the above objectives and create responsive, inclusive and deliverable Healthy Lifestyles Services that are sustainable and scalable. Children, families and adults wishing to improve lifestyle behaviours at a whole population level and targeted population groups, e.g, older people and those living with disabilities and/or in areas of deprivation. GP and Pharmacy staff, Health Visitors and School Nurses, and other transdisciplinary providers. Attend Primary Care Network meetings and establish links with a range of Social Prescribers, e.g Health Coaches, Health Connectors, Community Connectors and Village Agents. Liaise with expert local providers to strengthen service offerings, e.g SASP (Somerset Activity & Sports Partnership), Somerset Community Food, SPARK Somerset and Community Council for Somerset. Colleagues within Public Health to integrate and support the overall population-based wellbeing promotion message. Foster a growing network of multi-disciplinary and multi-sectoral partners to co-create enabling environments for behaviour change and systems transformation as part of co-creating a Culture of Wellbeing across Somerset. Resources Laptop, webcam and phone. Supporting volunteers. Creative input to support the Healthy Lifestyles Services teams with ideas for resources and promotional items that can be procured from the allocated budget.