Stop Smoking Specialist Community Engagement and Communications

What will you be doing?

A key part of the role involves building strong and effective relationships with a wide range of partners, including health professionals, voluntary sector organisations and community groups. You will represent the service at events, meetings and community activities, helping to raise the profile of stop smoking support and ensuring that our messages reach the people and communities who need them most. You will also analyse communication and performance data to evaluate the impact of campaigns and engagement work, using insights to inform service improvements and support evidence‑based planning.

You will also deliver Level 2 and refresher training for colleagues, partners and community organisations, helping to build capacity and strengthen referral pathways across the area.

About you

We are looking for someone educated to degree level in health promotion, communications, engagement or a related discipline, or with equivalent relevant experience. You should have strong communication skills and experience in media, marketing, community engagement or health improvement. The ability to analyse data, present ideas clearly, and build effective partnerships is essential. Knowledge of behaviour change principles and public health priorities is also important. You must be able to work flexibly and travel across North Northamptonshire as required. A DBS check is required for this role..

Our benefits

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.

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.

About us

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 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.

Disability Confident Employer

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.  

Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council

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The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)