Overview

This position plays a crucial role in enhancing awareness, preventing and detecting chest, heart, and stroke illnesses in Northern Ireland. The primary objective is to inspire and empower individuals to lead healthy, active lives by delivering high quality and evidence-based health promotion services across various settings. The successful candidate will be based within the Schools Team, delivering services primarily to children and young people, but you will also deliver services to other audiences too. Strong teamwork skills are essential, as the role involves internal and external collaboration to promote health and address health inequalities related to chest, heart, and stroke conditions.

KEY DUTIES

1. Deliver effective health promotion information, activities and programmes to young people in schools and adults in community and workplace settings.
2. Deliver the Well Schools programme (primary and post-primary) including delivery of interactive sessions such as physical activity, healthy eating, and vaping/smoking workshops.
3. Deliver face to face health checks for adults in a variety of settings, providing a professional, personal and confidential service.
4. Facilitate the development, delivery and review of digital health webinars, talks, workshops, or training for a range of audiences.
5. Deliver face to face presentations, talks or workshops for different audiences in different locations
6. Assist the project lead in planning, developing, delivering, and reviewing new programmes, services and materials in support of achieving the charity’s health promotion strategic aims, mission and vision
7. Assist or lead in the evaluation and review of services, materials or programmes
8. Produce  monitoring, evaluation, and audit reports for your manager, as required.
9. Provide follow up support and advice to high risk clients who have been referred to other services (external and internal) and capture results/impact, if appropriate, in a sensitive way.
10. Develop excellent collaborative working with internal and external colleagues, services and organisations.
11. Generate copy and utilise social media to promote Well NI services in line with our communication policies procedures and plans.
12. Create and present pitches to a range of organisations to generate work, as agreed with your manager.
13. Assist or lead in the production and review of health promotion materials, resources and literature, as required and in line with communications processes.
14. Achieve KPI’s & targets set.

General duties

15. Live NICHS’s values both internally and externally showing; compassion, courage, consideration and commitment.
16. Comply with all NICHS and Health Promotion policies, processes and procedures when delivering services, complying with but not limited to, health and safety, infection, and control, quality standards.
17. Collect and input data in line with our impact framework and plans and produce report, as required.
18. Support or lead HP input into NICHS and FR campaigns and marketing of services / impact.
19. Development, coordination and delivery of projects as assigned by the Manager or Director.
20. Undertake administration required in support of the programmes and department including, diary and rota management, stock control and orders, equipment checks and distribution, and supporting marketing of services and production of reports required.
21. Deputise for HP managers or other staff at appropriate meetings or events
22. Promote NICHS brand, services and fundraising opportunities, as appropriate.
23. Supervise and support volunteers, health champions and students, if required.
24. Ability to travel throughout Northern Ireland and in the UK, if needed.
25. Ability to work flexible hours, including evenings and weekends, or cover for holidays/sickness as required.
26. Keep abreast of progress in your field and be committed to continuous professional development.