Health Improvement Specialist

at  Northumbria Healthcare NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Public Health team. We are looking for a motivated, dynamic, and enthusiastic Health Improvement Specialist to work as part of the public health team in an operational role to lead the delivery of prevention and public health programmes across the organisation, with the aim of improving health and addressing health inequalities.
The post holder will provide leadership and management to ensure the Trust tobacco dependency services (acute and maternity) are delivered in line with our strategic objectives and support a whole system approach to treating tobacco dependency.
The post holder will deliver on a portfolio of work as determined by the Public Health Matron and Programme Manager; including time limited projects. This will include the p rovision of specialist public health education, information, advice and support to teams, departments and staff across the organisation.
We are looking for a commitment to team-working, respect, and consideration for the skills of others. The candidate will be expected to role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust.
The role will include operational management of the Tobacco Dependency Advisor team (acute smoking cessation) and Best Start in Life Advisor team (maternity) reporting to the Public Health Matron.
The post holder is required to build working partnerships with a range of personnel across all staff groups and operate as a link and specialist reference point for public health, with particular reference to tobacco dependency.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
The post holder will have specialist public health or health related knowledge, underpinned by theory and experience. They will have experience of leading and developing a variety of public health/health improvement projects in a health related setting and be able to demonstrate a commitment to team-working, respect, and consideration for the skills of others

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