Portsmouth City Council's Public Health Service is developing an exciting new service to improve the health and well-being of our residents. The groundbreaking integrated Wellbeing Service will join together alcohol, healthy weight and smoking provision into one service. In addition to these key lifestyle risk factors, the service will provide access to support for the wider determinants of health, such as housing, debt, benefits, employment support.

The service will engage with our communities through a community development approach to empower them to seek their own solutions and co-design the provision they want in their area. We will train community wellbeing 'sign-posters' to take a lead in their communities to promote healthier lifestyles.

The overarching aim of the Portsmouth integrated Wellbeing Service is to increase life expectancy and reduce health inequalities for people in Portsmouth.

This will include:

1. Reduction of smoking prevalence 2. Increase the number of people eating a healthy diet 3. Increase in number of people who achieve the recommended amount of physical activity per week 4. Reduce the number of people drinking at increasing or high risk levels.

A higher proportion of people in our most deprived communities engage in all 4 of these risk factors, and therefore have poorer health outcomes and shorter life expectancy. This service will seek to engage effectively with these communities.

What is the role?

This role will work with individuals and families on all of the 4 risk factors listed above, providing extended brief advice and developing/delivering a programme of support. This may range from empowering through self-help, brief advice, support for the use of pharmacotherapy (e.g. providing nicotine replacement therapy) through to long-term engagement.

The role will engage with community members and staff in non-health specific services, to train and support them to co-deliver local initiatives which will impact on the wider community's wellbeing. Our Wellbeing sign-posters will be volunteers from the local community who will be trained by our Wellbeing workers in Making Every Contact Count Level 1, to engage and support their peers.

The role will require some evening and weekend working.

Who is the person?

You need to:

1. Have significant experience of delivering health behaviour change, working in one or more of these areas: alcohol, smoking, physical activity, healthy eating or mental health.

2. Experience of delivering behaviour change both 1 to 1 sessions and in groups.

3. Experience of delivering recognised behaviour change techniques, e.g. MECC level 3, Motivational interviewing, Solution Focused Brief Therapy, Acceptance & Commitment Therapy etc. is an advantage.

4. Must be prepared to work towards achieving weight management training up to Level 3 Diploma in Exercise Referral.

5. Must be prepared to work towards and achieve the National Centre for Smoking Cessation Level 2.

6. Experience of supporting the use of pharmacotherapy is desirable.

7. Experience of community development work is desirable.

8. Experience of delivering training to staff and community members in at least one key risk factor

9. Knowledge of the wider determinants of health, how they can impact health and how to engage people with support to address these.

10. Good communication skills are essential as you will be communicating with people at all levels.

11. Understand and demonstrate the benefits of working in partnership with others.

12. Experience of promoting volunteering and working with volunteers.

13. Ability to think outside of the box to find innovative solutions to problems.

14. Able to demonstrate effective team working, working flexibility to meet the needs of the wider team.

15. Good level of numeracy and literacy are essential

16. Good IT skills, including the use of PowerPoint, databases and Outlook.

17. Be able to prioritise, organise and manage workload.

18. Have a commitment to equal opportunities

19. Have a commitment to continuous personal development.

Closing 5pm on 21st September 2015