Health Mentor

Health Mentor - 28 hours - fixed term 12 months

At Tameside and Glossop IC NHS FT, we have a focus on ensuring ‘Everybody Matters’. By living our values and behaviours throughout the organisation, we are able to demonstrate that everybody really does matter.

Our Healthy Child Programme 0-19 (25 SEND) Service for Health Visiting and School Nursing has a vision to improve health outcomes for our population and influence the wider determinants of health, through collaboration with the people of Tameside and Glossop and our health and care partners. We are currently progressing through an exciting service transformation in conjunction with all of our team.

We are seeking an individual to join our Health Mentor Team, within our School Nursing Service. This role is an exciting and unique opportunity to work with children and young people to support with their health and wellbeing, providing education and brief interventions in a range of public health topics.

We work in neighbourhood models which align with these other services to best meet the needs for the community. Our staff teams are welcoming, friendly supportive and innovative, encompassing and valuing all our team members. Our visible Leadership team is positive in driving service improvement in a compassionate and collaborative way working with all teams to ensure we deliver high quality care in a supportive team environment.

• Alcohol/Drugs
• Smoking
• Healthy Weight
• Oral Health
• Sexual Health including teenage conception
• Emotional Health and Wellbeing
• School Readiness and transition to Primary School
• School transition to high school
• Transition to Adult Services

The work involves working within the School Nursing Team to support children and young people on these health needs, providing advice and signposting them. Providing packages of care and at times 1-1 support within schools across Tameside.

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children.

Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners.

• Compassion
• Accountability
• Respect
• Excellence

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population. We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity.

Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ & Disabled people.

Benefits include: flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more.

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name:
Caroline Scott

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