Children's Health Promotion Advisor

Job overview

Children's Health Promotion Advisor

This is a fantastic opportunity to support our 0-25 Health and Wellbeing Service and to work closely other agencies to support the needs of children and their families in Knowsley. Working across the locality teams to identify health needs early and support with brief interventions as part of the Healthy Child Programme.

Main duties of the job

• To develop the 0-25 Health and Wellbeing services working in partnership with the Local Authority, partner agencies and Primary Care Team.
• To support delivery of identified packages of care, providing support and advice to clients.
• To deliver a range of health promoting programmes and activities for inclusion in a variety of settings including: mental wellbeing, physical activity, stop smoking support, oral health, food and nutrition and lifestyle/weight management.
• To develop and deliver health care and health promotion as a member of the Lifestyles Division, using evidence-based practice and professional leadership and management.
• To contribute to the development of best practice and facilitate shared learning to develop services and initiatives that meet local needs, in relation to aims and objectives of Wirral Community Trust.
• To develop effective links with key people in delivering services to enable people to improve their own health.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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You can also visit our dedicated children and young people’s website to find out more about our services.

As a Trust, we provide extensive continuous professional development opportunities through a diverse range of learning solutions, including virtual and face-to-face events, webinars and action learning sets. We subscribe to numerous memberships and licences to support staff development and continuous learning.