Healthy Schools Framework Practitioner

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

Terms and Conditions: 2 x Fixed-term posts for two years, 37 hours per week.

Department:
Public Health

Are you passionate about improving the health and wellbeing of children and young people? Do you enjoy working directly with schools, families and communities to turn good ideas and evidence into practical action?

We are seeking enthusiastic and skilled Healthy Schools Framework Practitioners to help deliver Blackburn with Darwen’s new borough-wide Healthy Schools Framework.

This is an exciting opportunity to work directly with education settings, supporting them to develop a whole-school approach to health and wellbeing that improves outcomes for children and young people, supports attendance and attainment, and helps reduce health inequalities across the borough.

About the role

As a Healthy Schools Framework Practitioner, you will work alongside schools and education settings to understand their needs, identify priorities and put effective approaches into practice.

You will build trusted relationships with school leaders, governors, staff, children, young people and families, connecting settings with the wider support available across Public Health, health services, Children’s Services, Family Hubs and the voluntary and community sector.

You will:

• Support schools to implement the Healthy Schools Framework and embed a whole-school approach to health, wellbeing, attendance and attainment.
• Work directly with education settings to understand their strengths and needs, using local data, evidence and school insight to identify priorities and develop practical action plans.
• Support the implementation of evidence-based approaches across areas such as healthy weight, physical activity, mental and emotional wellbeing, oral health and other locally identified priorities.
• Facilitate training, workshops and learning opportunities for school staff and partners and help develop practical resources that support implementation.
• Build positive relationships with school leaders, governors, staff, parents and communities, acting as an important link between schools, Public Health and wider services.
• Support schools through the Healthy Schools accreditation process, from initial engagement and assessment through to implementation, recognition and ongoing development.
• Work collaboratively with partners including the 0–19 Healthy Child Programme, Family Hubs, Children’s Services, NHS services and voluntary, community and faith sector organisations to ensure schools can access coordinated support.
• Engage children, young people and families in shaping the programme, ensuring their experiences and voices inform what we do.
• Provide additional support to settings and communities experiencing greater challenges, helping ensure resources and interventions contribute to reducing inequalities.
• Monitor progress and outcomes, maintain accurate records and contribute to evaluation, performance reporting and continuous improvement.
• Share learning and good practice across schools, helping successful approaches spread across the borough.

About you

We are looking for people who can combine strong relationship-building skills with the ability to turn public health evidence into practical action.

You will have:

• Experience of working with children and young people, education settings, families, communities, health improvement or a related area.
• An understanding of the factors that influence children and young people’s health and wellbeing and the importance of prevention and early intervention.
• The ability to build effective and credible relationships with schools, partners, families and…