Outreach and Engagement Officer

ABL Health delivers the Healthy Lifestyle service in Gloucestershire, commissioned by Gloucestershire County Council. This transformative service seeks to work collaboratively with communities to transform the lives of the local population. This service supports residents to stop smoking, manage weight, reduce alcohol consumption, get more active and improve their wellbeing – all embedded through a sustainable behaviour change approach. We also deliver the Healthy Beginnings programme supporting pregnant families and young children as well as the Healthy Workplaces award scheme.

Role Purpose:

You will be the Outreach and Engagement Officer, working with the System & Engagement Lead across the county for the Healthy Lifestyles service.

You will be expected to engage at community and neighbourhood level to develop partnerships and increase referrals into the service, building long-lasting relationships with local partners. This will involve working with a wide range of stakeholder groups, including but not limited to local authority, primary and secondary care, leisure services and the community and voluntary sector and community services.

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. The role will require dynamic working which embraces the vision and values we wish to establish supporting people to achieve healthy lives.

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 and are highly organised this could be the job for you.

This is a demanding job, but you will not be on your own. ABL’s highly experienced and friendly multi-disciplinary team of Health and Social Care professionals, Business Intelligence, Service Development, Governance, Finance and Business Development are there to support. Additionally, existing experienced delivery teams will be available to support you to drive the service forward.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

The role is varied, challenging, and rewarding, offering the opportunity to support and develop the service through effective implementation, delivery, and continuous innovation.

You will be responsible for delivering the ABL Community Engagement Strategy, working closely with the communications team to raise the profile of the service through social media, website updates, and promotional activities.

A key part of the role involves engaging with local services, partners, and stakeholders to build strong relationships, increase awareness, and explore opportunities for partnership and co-production.

You will collaborate with operational colleagues to manage referral rates and develop connections with potential referrers, as well as represent ABL at local forums, meetings, and events, including delivering presentations to small and medium-sized groups.

Working as part of the wider Gloucestershire team, you will support service delivery where required, contribute to monitoring and evaluation activities, and use feedback to inform ongoing service improvement.

The role also includes attending team and engagement meetings, contributing to reports, tracking progress against targets, and supporting communication initiatives such as public events and awareness sessions, with occasional weekend work.

You will bring a proactive, innovative mindset, supporting co-production activities with local residents and stakeholders to continuously shape and enhance the service.

Skills and Competencies Required

• Be experienced in community engagement and partnership working in a community health environment.
• Experience of building and maintaining partnerships
• Positive and proactive with the ability to motivate, engage and support partnership delivery
• Adept in communication; A confident and approachable communicator who adapts the message to fit the needs of the audience and ability to ‘see the bigger picture’ in problem solving for community cohesion.
• Build strong relationships; Foster trust and co-operation among colleagues, stakeholders, community leaders, commissioners and sub-contractors
• Quality driven; you naturally seek high standards and actively seek to improve them.
• Value and remain open to new ideas and perspectives.

Employee Benefits:

• Birthday Day off
• Flexible Annual Leave scheme
• Employee Referral scheme
• 37.5 hours working week
• Flu jabs
• Blue Light Card
• Cycle to work scheme
• Leadership and staff away days
• Training and Development

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