Engagement Support Officer Job Vacancy in Hebburn, England, UK

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a post to cover Maternity Leave for a Band 5 Community Engagement Officer. Would you like to join a dynamic and innovative team to address health inequalities across three client cohorts? These are:

1) Homeless families

2) Refugees/Asylum seekers

3) Gypsies, Roma, Travellers, Showpeople and Boaters (GRTSB).

This team combines a creative and needs-driven approach to Public Health nursing and collaborates with a wide range of health, statutory and voluntary agencies to advocate for our families and challenge the many barriers to health care that these families experience.

The role of Engagement Officer provides great job satisfaction and is part of a supportive and empathetic team who relish challenge and thrive on the variety and creativity of the work. This job encourages you to collaborate, explore new solutions and discover talents and abilities that you never knew that you had to meet the identified needs of this population.

This is an opportunity to continue to develop an important role and to utilise existing non-clinical skills in order to support the clinical staff in their delivery of health outreach.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

Non-clinical support for the skill-mix Inclusion Health team to deliver the Healthy Child Program and to help them provide assertive health outreach to marginalised population groups (by developing and collating resources and providing co-ordination, project management and logistical support)

Providing community connections, advocating and signposting for health interventions, engage with assertive outreach to homeless and asylum-seeking families and Gypsy, Romany and Traveller communities in Surrey.

Leading on audits, developing Case Studies and working with our Communications Team to document interventions and patient stories

This role will suit:

A Band 4 Community Nursery Nurse with the requisite experience/skills/qualifications looking for professional development at this banding.

A non-clinical applicant with the requisite skills and experience in targeted outreach work with vulnerable or marginalised communities.

Bespoke psychological supervision is offered to all the team, as well as Reflect and Learn and Safeguarding Supervision because the welfare of team members is a priority.

About us

Do you want to be part of an organisation that is committedto providing first rate care and services to its local community?

First Community is a CQC rated Good staff ownedsocial enterprise, which delivers NHS community services to residents acrosseast Surrey and in parts of West Sussex.

First Community is a great place to work, everyone here has a voice and is supported to develop their careerto its full potential. We offer all our staff: NHS terms and conditions, highquality training and development opportunities, flexible working to enable agood work life balance, an inclusive and friendly work environment, an NHSpension, flexible retirement options and employee benefits including a carsalary sacrifice scheme.

First Community values diversity and inclusion and iscommitted to the recruitment and retention of under-represented minoritygroups. We particularly welcome applications from black, Asian and minorityethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities.

Sustainability is integral to First Community achievingthe NHS Net Zero target. All staff are therefore actively encouraged andsupported to implement new ways of working within their field of expertise.

Applicants are advised to apply early as we reserve the right to close the advert prior to the advertised closing date should we receive a large number of applications.