Health Promotion Officer - 1 Permanent and 1 Fixed Term up to April 2025

The Vacancy

This role sits within the Health and Wellbeing team, providing support to individuals and community groups, improving connections to local services for better wellbeing. We are looking for dynamic, resilient and compassionate workers who enjoy developing their own skills alongside enabling our clients to grow, achieve and succeed. Are you a team player who would thrive within this inclusive culture? If yes we want to hear from you.

The role is agile with a requirement to work across Liverpool, St Helens and Warrington but the main focus area will be Liverpool. You will work across Torus neighbourhoods to actively engage residents to improve their health and wellbeing. You will develop and support a caseload of customers through social prescribing and work with partner agencies to develop and deliver Job Advert projects to promote healthier lifestyles and encourage take up of services to meet the overall objective of reducing health inequalities.

Ideally you will also have experience providing support on a 1 – 1 basis to customers looking to improve their Health and Wellbeing

This is an important role in which you will:

• Be responsible to the Health and Wellbeing Team Leader for assisting and ensuring that Torus Foundation implements its Health and Wellbeing programme in a costeffective manner and delivers high quality services supporting the delivery of the Business Plan.
• Work across Torus neighbourhoods to actively engage residents to improve their health and wellbeing, connecting them with local assets.
• Work with partner agencies to develop projects to promote healthier lifestyles and address health inequalities and low self-esteem levels of tenants resulting from socio-economic factors.
• Deliver programmes to encourage take up of services to improve the health and wellbeing of residents, prevent ill health and improve long term health conditions.

To be successful in this role you will:

• Minimum Level 3 qualification
• Experience of working with communities focused on health and wellbeing initiatives.
• Experience of working effectively as part of a team
• Experience of delivering projects that look to address health inequalities
• Ability to implement creative and innovative programmes
• Empathy for customers with complex lives
• Ability to interpret data and provide conclusions

PLEASE NOTE:

Each successful applicant will be required to complete the following pre-employment checks prior to a start date being agreed;

• Right to work verification
• Qualification certificate check
• 2x Completed references
• OH Health Questionnaire – Fit For Work
• DBS check (if required for role)
• Completion of all new starter documentation including signed T&C’s

Torus Foundation (part of Torus group) is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. Each successful applicant will be subject to a relevant Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check along with other relevant employment checks.

‘Happy to Talk Flexible Working’

We employ more than 1,500 people in a wide variety of jobs across Liverpool City Region and in the wider North West. We don’t just build homes. Our mission is to create stronger communities so people can thrive. If you‘re passionate about people and want to make a difference, there are many opportunities to join us.

Helping to improve lives and build stronger communities. That’s what we work hard to achieve here at Torus Foundation. We’re the charitable part of the Torus Group, the North West’s largest affordable homes provider. Working with a wide range of partners, we invest group profits in health and wellbeing, education, social and economic initiatives that improve the lives of local people and help to build stronger communities.

Torus Foundation is an equal opportunities employer and we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity. The Torus Foundation “A place where everyone belongs” approach sums up our belief that everyone has the right to be who they are, and to be that person at work, in line with Torus Foundation’s Values. We appreciate the strength we gain from having and supporting our diverse teams. Diversity contributes to our inclusive culture and allows us to be truly representative of the communities we work in.