Community Engagement Coordinator

Duties and Responsibilities The role will be varied, challenging and rewarding as you support and develop the service through implementation, delivery and ongoing innovation and service development. Key responsibilities will be Working with ABLs communication team to help raise the service profile. Working closely with operational colleagues to manage the referral rates and develop partnerships with all potential referrers in your locality. Implement community targets on Smokefree County Durhams marketing and engagement strategy, providing regular updates and monitoring progress of community engagement projects. Organise and attend local community events across the county to promote our service and encourage referrals, including workplace health and wellbeing events, health promotion events, community fun days, health clinics, youth centre workshops, and school events. Develop and deliver our engagement offer to Children and Young People. Collaborate with our digital and communications

officer to develop engaging resources for community engagement. Attend local health forums/meetings on a regular basis where required to represent the service (this will involve some public speaking/presenting). Deliver Basic Brief Intervention training (presenting via Teams) to client-facing stakeholders across County Durham, to increase signposting/referrals to our service from a wide-range of sectors. Innovative and open minded to new ideas and piloting of different strategies. Skills and Competencies Required Be experienced in community engagement and partnership working in a community health environment. Experience of building and maintaining networks and partnerships. Positive and proactive with the ability to motivate, engage and support partnership delivery. Adept in communication; a confident, approachable communicator who adapts the message to fit the needs of the audience and can see the bigger picture in problem solving for community cohesion. Build strong relationships,
foster trust and co-operation among colleagues, stakeholders, community leaders, and commissioners. Quality driven; you naturally seek high standards and actively seek to improve them. Value and remain open to new ideas and perspectives. This role will develop over time and therefore it is expected that post holder will have additional responsibilities.