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Health Promotion Assistant - We have a full-time (37.5 hour) post and a part-time (18.75 hour) post available.
Fixed Term posts until 31/03/2025
The Role
The postholder will contribute to the development and operational delivery of a wide range of health improvement programmes within the Tobacco, Alcohol and Other Substances Team, with the overall of aim of improving health and reducing health inequalities in line with local and nationally identified public health priorities. The postholder will have responsibility for supporting delivery of this portfolio of work under the direction of the Senior Health Promotion Officer.
Including but not exhaustive:
- Contributing ideas to the planning meetings for the project and undertaking tasks set by the project lead once the project plan is established.
- Planning and coordinating the administration of project related events such as conferences, training events and launches.
- Staffing high profile events such as No Smoking Day, Alcohol Awareness Week, Staff Health & Wellbeing or Mental Health Week and providing the general public with a basic level of information on a specific topic (full training will be provided in this respect).
- Contribution to the distribution, collation and basic level analysis of project evaluation surveys and audits.
- Providing Admin support to the team.
NHS Lanarkshire
Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!
Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.
We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.
What we'll need you to bring
- Postholders should possess a formal administrative/ secretarial qualification e.g. HNC or equivalent experience.
- Excellent computer skills are essential across a range of software packages including word processing and databases.
- Be a self-motivated team player with prior experience of secretarial work including general office administration.
- Postholders will be required to undertake regular training and learning opportunities to ensure the knowledge and skills required for the post are up-to-date.
- Car driver with valid UK driving licence
It would be great if you also have
- Experience working in an environment which has required skills in communication, multi tasking, time management, forward planning and using own initiative.
- Desktop publishing skills preferred.
Contract type
Fixed Term until 31/03/2025
Full time and Part Time opportunities are available
37.5 or 18.75 hours
Please note the salary for the part-time position will be pro-rata.
Please note this is a fixed term post until 31/03/2025. Where a post only has temporary funding and an existing member of NHS Lanarkshire staff wishes to apply, this will be treated as a secondment. The employee MUST already have written agreement from their line manager to be released on a secondment before applying for the post.
Location and Working Pattern
This role will be based in Health Improvement Team within Beckford St.
The working pattern for this role: Flexible
Looking to find out more?
If you’re looking to find out a bit more, then we would love to hear from you!
Please contact Clare McCool, Team Leader on clare.mccool@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
For enquiries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please contact Nithiya Lookose, Recruitment Administrator on nithiya.lookose@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk (Please remember to include the job title and reference number in your email)
Why NHS Lanarkshire?
Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.
Some of NHS Lanarkshire’s benefits include:
A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service
A minimum of 8 days of public holidays
Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension)
Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
Occupational health services
Employee Counselling services
Work-life Balance policies and procedures
NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.
Further Information
For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If you’re looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our recruitment webpage.
Additional Information for Applicants
- Posts close at midnight on the indicated date
- For help to complete an application on JobTrain please follow this link: https://www.careers.nhs.scot/how-to-apply/application-process/
- Please note that our correspondence method is by e-mail, therefore please ensure you enter your email address accurately
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- Once you have submitted your application form you will be unable to make any amendments
In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.
We anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the advert once sufficient applications are received. Please complete and submit your application early.
*Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.
Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.
Please note for all vacancies where a driving licence is required this, must be a full UK/EU/EEA licence.
NHS Lanarkshire has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any Worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK. This permission is without exception granted by UK Visas and Immigrations. We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category. Candidates who require a Certificate of Sponsorship can access further information at www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk Skilled worker Visa and all current immigration rules are available at www.gov.uk