Community Development Worker

City Health Care Partnership CIC; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health organization in Liverpool is seeking a community development worker to tackle smoking prevalence and health inequalities. The role involves delivering stop smoking advice, engaging vulnerable populations, and supporting referrals into health services. Ideal candidates will have excellent people skills and a passion for community health. The position offers flexible working options and requires teamwork and motivational abilities.

Qualifications

• Ability to support and motivate others in a community setting.
• Strong communication skills for engaging with diverse groups.
• Experience in promoting health services.

Responsibilities

• Deliver stop smoking advice and referrals.
• Target vulnerable populations and promote services.
• Engage with community venues to support referrals.

Skills

Good people skills

Motivational abilities

Teamwork

Job description

Overview

Are you passionate about behaviour change? Smokefree Liverpool seeks a community development worker to help reduce the prevalence of smoking and tackle health inequalities for the people of Liverpool. This role offers a flexible and varied workload, training, hybrid working and community-based interventions and prevention.

Responsibilities

• Deliver stop smoking advice and complete referrals to services.
• Target vulnerable populations within the city and promote referrals into services.
• Provide very brief advice to smokers across a variety of settings and support referral into the service.
• Engage via promotional events, GP surgeries and other community venues to support referral into service.

Requirements / Skills

• Good people skills, with the ability to support and motivate others and work well in a team setting.

Contact for more information

For further information on the role, please contact Nicola Cartwright, Northwest Services Programme Lead, at 0151 4267462 or email [email protected]

Additional notes

Please note that if there is a high volume of applications, we reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date.