Stronger Communities Officer

Do you want to work within a dynamic and vibrant team, building strong partnerships with communities, agencies and services to reduce health inequalities and improve health and wellbeing outcomes for residents of North Northamptonshire? The Stronger Communities Officer will take a lead on gathering information, intelligence, and insight within communities and provide project coordination and support to the Local Area Partnerships across North Northamptonshire. This workstream is an integral resident-facing aspect of the Integrated Care System in North Northamptonshire, and at the forefront of resilience-building, system change, and wider behaviour change for North Northamptonshire.What will you be doing? You will also be responsible for coordination, development, and implementation of a range of interventions within a systems-approach specifically focused around a Local Area Partnership. To achieve this, you will work collaboratively with communities and agencies in a co-production manner, identifying the wider determinants to wellbeing and co-designing interventions that will alleviate those wider determinants. You will collate, interpret, and review intelligence and data from a variety of sources, creating a knowledgebase from which you, and system stakeholders, can provide appropriate services. You will drive forward resident engagement within the Local Area Partnership and inspire lasting legacy through innovative and creative community development approaches. You will also act as the inspirational driving force behind collaborative partnerships between system stakeholders, and play an integral role is overseeing the dissemination and evaluation of system funding.

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and forward-thinking Stronger Communities Officer with drive, initiative and confidence. Reporting to the Stronger Communities Team Leader Lead you will provide project support and action plans for the LAPs, focusing on the key priorities for those areas. This is a role which will require you to work with system stakeholders to include community groups and organisations, voluntary sector partners and statutory organisations. As the successful candidate, you will bring:

• knowledge of the principles and practice of community development
• excellent administrative and organisational skills
• experience of working in local government, voluntary or commercial sectors
• outstanding communication skills, both written and oral
• an abundance of drive and determination
It would also be nice for you to have:
• experience of multi-agency working
• knowledge of wider determinants to wellbeing
  
  We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups., Our Values and Behaviours
Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are: Customer-focused Respectful Efficient Supportive Trustworthy Our Key Commitments Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most. We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role. North Northamptonshire Council re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant in June 2024 which highlights the Council's pledge to support the Armed Forces community. The council obtained the silver status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) and we are now currently working towards achieving Gold status. We aim to be a carbon neutral Council by 2030. Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we're transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people. You'll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think! Why choose us? We offer a vibrant working environment with:
• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.