Project Lead and Engagement Coordinator

ABL Health have been commissioned by Sefton Council to deliver a high quality and specialist stop smoking service across Sefton. The Project Lead and engagement officer will assist the Head of Service in increasing engagement and raising the profile of the service through building relationships and delivering training to local partners in the community. This is a varied and exciting role where the post holder will have a real influence on the development of the service. The post holder will take a pro-active lead in building relationships, partnerships, and alliances both internally and externally to increase the number of referrals into the service and expand the reach to the most vulnerable groups., 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 within marketing and engagement strategy, providing regular updates and monitoring progress of community engagement projects to Head of service and team.

Organise and attend local community events across the Borough 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.

Collaborate with Marcomms team 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 Very Brief Advice training to client-facing stakeholders across Sefton to increase signposting/referrals to our service from a wide-range of sectors incl VCSE.

Innovative and open minded to new ideas and piloting of different strategies.

You will be a motivated, passionate, organised and proactive communicator, with experience working in a community setting. ABL take a strengths-focused asset-based approach to community delivery, looking to innovate and partner, not replicate existing delivery. No two days will be the same in this varied and flexible role. If you are as comfortable spending a day with the team as you are working independently and confidently with new people, this could be the job for you.

ABL is an exciting fast-growing community health organisation. ABL is an experienced, CQC registered, provider of community health services. As an organisation we are passionate about delivering evidence based, innovative, effective and relevant health care services in partnership with individuals, communities and stakeholders.

We are a value driven organisation, dedicated to reducing health inequalities and improving peoples lives. We would love to hear from you if you would like the opportunity to work with in a close team of committed professionals and you share our values of designing and delivering health services.