Overview
The Fife Health Promotion Service leads on approaches and services that maintain and improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities: covering the life course of population health, from early years and children, adults and older adults. We are looking for a full time Health Promotion Officer to support the delivery of the Fife Health & Social Care Partnership’s Tobacco & Vaping Prevention and Protection portfolio. The postholder will work predominantly with this portfolio whilst supporting and working closely with the Health Promotion Specialist Stop Smoking & Vaping Service.
Tobacco and Vaping Prevention, Protection and Cessation contributes towards improving population health in line with national legislation and local strategies and policy. Including the Health (Tobacco, Nicotine etc. and Care) (Scotland) Act 2016, the Tobacco and Vaping Framework: Roadmap to 2034 and Fife Health & Social Care Partnership’s Prevention and Early Intervention Strategy.
You will take a lead role in the planning and coordination of the Prevention & Protection portfolio and workplans, working closely with the Tobacco & Vaping Lead.
Responsibilities
* Plan, coordinate, support & evaluate SmokeFree prevention education programmes for children and young people across all Fife secondary and primary schools.
* Lead groups of interested parties to consult and report local challenges and achievements.
* Establish and ensure peer representation from pupils at secondary schools in Fife: encouraging a whole systems approach to understanding the risk factors that can affect children and young people through tobacco and vaping use and how these can be mitigated.
* Promotion, direction and evaluation of targeted stop smoking or vaping interventions.
* Ability to navigate completing priorities with self-motivation to meet deadlines and maintain clear records and write complex reports.
* Effective networking and communication with the Health Promotion Service staff and a range of stakeholders from across Fife Health & Social Care Partnership, Education, NHS, 3rd Sector and statutory organisations.
* Lead on prevention portfolio and SmokeFree initiatives, ensuring compliance with policy and legislation in NHS Fife spaces.
Qualifications & experience
You will require current experience of working with health improvement and be able to demonstrate knowledge and experience of tobacco and vaping issues both in theory and practice, understanding the impact on population health. A relevant professional or academic qualification or significant experience in relevant area is essential.
Enquiries
For informal enquiries, please Email Patricia Allan (fife.healthpromotion@nhs.scot) or talk to Patricia on Tel: 0800 025 3000 Mobile - 07845 410708 after receiving an application pack.
UK work eligibility
To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service.
As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK website here.
For specific types of post, if you do not have the necessary eligibility to work in the UK, it might be possible (though not guaranteed) to secure sponsorship via a UK Skilled Worker/Health & Care Worker Visa. However, this is only possible if the employer is a licensed Sponsor, and if the post does not fall below the current minimum salary threshold or ‘going rate’. Further information on these criteria can be found here.
It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsored BEFORE submitting your application form.
Inclusive workplace
We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.
NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.
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