234244 Public Health Improvement Community Link Worker
About the role
This is an excellent opportunity to join an innovative, compassionate and collaborative Home team.
These Community Link Worker posts are community based positions within the Mid & Upper Nithsdale Home Team which works to improve the health and wellbeing of the local population. This role prioritises the improvement of the health of the local population and is responsive to the needs, interests and circumstances of local people in the local community, helping individuals and communities to have more control over decisions that affect them and promoting health equity, equality and justice.
Within the role, you will be working alongside colleagues to:
- Take a person-centred approach to support people to identify their own personal priorities and goals, to overcome any barriers to addressing these and to link them with local services and activities.
- Support delivery of community health and wellbeing activity
- Contribute to the delivery of the Community Health and Social Care Priorities, and Public Health Priorities for Scotland
- Contribute to reducing health inequalities
If you are passionate about taking a strength based approach that supports sustainable community driven change benefitting, people, families, communities and are committed to reducing the impact of health inequalities, we would like to hear from you.
This post will involve clinic and home visits in remote and rural areas. A current driving licence is an essential requirement of this post. However, if you have a disability which precludes you from holding a driving licence, consideration will be given if alternative transport can be arranged. Please detail how you would facilitate travel to clinics and home visits in your application. Informal enquiries to Kathryn.Gibbons3@nhs.scot or Julie.Haining@nhs.scot
If you require a Work Visa, please check to see if you and the vacancy you are applying for are eligible by visiting the Home Office website: https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa
About NHS Ayrshire & Arran
We pride ourselves on improving health and providing a comprehensive range of high quality, safe, effective and person-centred health services.
Our values - Caring, Safe, Respectful
Welcome to the official NHS Ayrshire & Arran LinkedIn page. This account will keep you updated on health matters and bring you trusted information and advice.
Please note this is a moderated information site and is not a public forum.
This site is moderated Monday to Friday between the hours of 9am and 5pm (excluding public holidays). It is monitored periodically out of office hours.
We do not remove comments for being critical of NHS Ayrshire & Arran, as your opinions are important and we can learn from them. However, we may remove comments or posts if they contain vulgar or offensive language, personal attacks of any kind; offensive comments that target or disparage any ethnic, racial or religious group; breach privacy; or spread inaccurate or dangerous information.
Further to this, we also reserve the right to delete any comments that:
· are spam or include links to other sites;
· are clearly off topic;
· advocate illegal activity;
· promote particular services, products or political organisations;
· infringe on copyrights or trademarks;
· use personally identifiable medical information (We recommend you do not share any of your medical information on our Social Media pages); or
· contain case-specific and other confidential information.
Where a person has continued to post inappropriate comments, we reserve the right to block that user from posting on our accounts.
Disclaimer
NHS Ayrshire & Arran does not take any responsibility for people making contact with members who are followers of this page. It is up to the individual to control their own privacy settings and who can view their profile. Please note that other than our official posts, any comments expressed on the site do not reflect the opinions and position of NHS Ayrshire & Arran or its
234244 Public Health Improvement Community Link Worker
About the role
This is an excellent opportunity to join an innovative, compassionate and collaborative Home team.
These Community Link Worker posts are community based positions within the Mid & Upper Nithsdale Home Team which works to improve the health and wellbeing of the local population. This role prioritises the improvement of the health of the local population and is responsive to the needs, interests and circumstances of local people in the local community, helping individuals and communities to have more control over decisions that affect them and promoting health equity, equality and justice.
Within the role, you will be working alongside colleagues to:
- Take a person-centred approach to support people to identify their own personal priorities and goals, to overcome any barriers to addressing these and to link them with local services and activities.
- Support delivery of community health and wellbeing activity
- Contribute to the delivery of the Community Health and Social Care Priorities, and Public Health Priorities for Scotland
- Contribute to reducing health inequalities
If you are passionate about taking a strength based approach that supports sustainable community driven change benefitting, people, families, communities and are committed to reducing the impact of health inequalities, we would like to hear from you.
This post will involve clinic and home visits in remote and rural areas. A current driving licence is an essential requirement of this post. However, if you have a disability which precludes you from holding a driving licence, consideration will be given if alternative transport can be arranged. Please detail how you would facilitate travel to clinics and home visits in your application. Informal enquiries to Kathryn.Gibbons3@nhs.scot or Julie.Haining@nhs.scot
If you require a Work Visa, please check to see if you and the vacancy you are applying for are eligible by visiting the Home Office website: https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa
About NHS Ayrshire & Arran
We pride ourselves on improving health and providing a comprehensive range of high quality, safe, effective and person-centred health services.
Our values - Caring, Safe, Respectful
Welcome to the official NHS Ayrshire & Arran LinkedIn page. This account will keep you updated on health matters and bring you trusted information and advice.
Please note this is a moderated information site and is not a public forum.
This site is moderated Monday to Friday between the hours of 9am and 5pm (excluding public holidays). It is monitored periodically out of office hours.
We do not remove comments for being critical of NHS Ayrshire & Arran, as your opinions are important and we can learn from them. However, we may remove comments or posts if they contain vulgar or offensive language, personal attacks of any kind; offensive comments that target or disparage any ethnic, racial or religious group; breach privacy; or spread inaccurate or dangerous information.
Further to this, we also reserve the right to delete any comments that:
· are spam or include links to other sites;
· are clearly off topic;
· advocate illegal activity;
· promote particular services, products or political organisations;
· infringe on copyrights or trademarks;
· use personally identifiable medical information (We recommend you do not share any of your medical information on our Social Media pages); or
· contain case-specific and other confidential information.
Where a person has continued to post inappropriate comments, we reserve the right to block that user from posting on our accounts.
Disclaimer
NHS Ayrshire & Arran does not take any responsibility for people making contact with members who are followers of this page. It is up to the individual to control their own privacy settings and who can view their profile. Please note that other than our official posts, any comments expressed on the site do not reflect the opinions and position of NHS Ayrshire & Arran or its