Healthy Communities Officer

Join us as a Healthy Communities Officer and play a vital role in promoting prevention, healthy living, and reducing health inequalities across Lancaster. You’ll support and coordinate projects that empower residents to live healthier lives, strengthen partnerships, and contribute to lasting system change in our community.

You will lead and deliver health improvement initiatives such as Make Every Contact Count and the Smoking Cessation Project. Using local data and community insights, you’ll coordinate work streams, organise meetings, and report progress to partners and decision‑makers. You’ll build strong relationships with residents, voluntary groups, NHS colleagues, and council teams, facilitating community conversations and workshops to ensure our projects meet local needs.

You have experience coordinating projects and working with diverse communities and partners. You’re organised, a clear communicator, and able to influence others positively. Your approach is warm, inclusive, and empathetic, reflecting our values of Working Together, Ambition, Pride, and Ownership. A driving licence or access to transport is essential to support community-based delivery.

If you’re passionate about making a real difference in people’s lives and shaping the future of health in Lancaster, we’d love to hear from you. Find out more about what it’s like working with us, our benefits, values and culture, by visiting

• Flexible working friendly
• We welcome discussions about flexible working and may be able to offer hybrid working, a generous flexi-time scheme, and agreed working hours to support work–life balance.

• Inclusive employer
• We welcome applications from all parts of the community and are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone is treated with dignity and respect.
• We guarantee interviews for applicants with a disability and armed forces veterans who meet the essential criteria.