Engagement Lead in Nottingham

Join us on our journey to empower over a million people to change their behaviours and thrive! At Thrive Tribe we deliver award-winning healthy lifestyle and wellbeing programmes that make people happier and healthier! We’re looking for an Engagement Lead to join our Thriving Nottingham service.

Our programmes are designed to support individuals and families to improve their health behaviours and make sustainable changes to their lifestyle. Thriving Nottingham consists of six key services:

• Stop smoking support
• Tailored physical activity programmes
• Adult weight management
• Child/family weight management
• Health Coaching
• Vape Cessation for Young People

Residents across the City of Nottingham will be able to benefit from a variety of our established pathways and products, to help residents making last healthy lifestyle changes. As Engagement Lead, you will manage a team of Community Engagement, Primary and Secondary care coordinators focusing on co-production and targeted promotion to ensure we meet our ambitious referral targets! During year 2 of the service the team exceeded 10,000 referrals, we are looking for a Lead to help us double these referral levels.

Like all roles at Thrive Tribe, you can expect your time at work to be fun, varied and challenging. We don’t like to stick to a firm JD as we know from experience that things change throughout the lifetime of a role and it gives our people the chance to play to their strengths.

Responsibilities

This role forms part of the leadership team at Thriving Nottingham, reporting to the Head of Service.

• Leading on strategic partnerships across the city, including NUH, CityCare and PCN partners. Spotting opportunities for innovation, development and growth.
• Line managing the team who engage with external organisations to build effective partnerships and promotion of the Nottingham IHWS, particularly within primary care locations, voluntary and community services.
• Using data to inform next steps for the team – and areas of high focus across the service.
• Leading the marketing and social media function for the organisation.
• Leading and further developing our approach to co-production within the community, ensuring underserved communities have equitable opportunities to access our service.
• Establishing effective and developing referral relationships with local community and health partners from a variety of settings including GPs, hospital trusts, mental health trust and voluntary organisations.
• Working with colleagues across all of our Thrive Tribe services to contribute to new projects and service developments – we’re always looking to share knowledge and resources!
• Ensuring due consideration is given to our Safeguarding, Information Governance and Clinical Governance policies and procedures. To ensure safer recruitment and safeguarding for all we adopt pre-employment processes, including DBS checks.
• Helping us maintain the ethos of Thrive Tribe by driving our organisational culture forward across our services and using every opportunity to embed our values!

About you

Be the change
You like helping people. You’ll be working with those who need help the most, empowering them to make positive changes to thrive. You enjoy developing professional relationships so people can access services.

Be effective
You’re patient and can adapt under pressure. Always happy to make time for other people. And have a great attitude. You have a ‘can do’ attitude, always thinking of solutions.

Be happy
You recognise the power of a smile. You value a fun, supportive workplace and want to come to work raring to go.

Be successful
You are motivated and driven. Happy working solo or as part of a team, you love meeting targets. And will be given opportunities to contribute and develop your career.

Be big-hearted
You want to make a difference. Working with a like-minded team of optimistic people, we want the same thing to do meaningful work and change lives.

To work with us in this role, you will need to have a strong partnership and strategic leadership background, alongside co-production skills that can enable the team to continue to develop at pace. You’ll need an understanding of health inequalities in Nottingham City, and have experiences, or ideas about how to embed Healthy Lifestyles into underserved communities. This is a pivotal role in a busy service, so you can expect your working week to be varied and fast-paced.

Perks

• Regular team events and activities, including ThriveFest and our annual Challenge Weekend (for those who want to put their fitness to the test!)
• Flexible working – we’re serious about life/work balance
• Tailored health and wellbeing support such as access to life coaching
• Rewards portal offering discounts on shops, restaurants, and days out
• Enhanced parental leave
• 23 days holiday, increasing every year up to a maximum of 29 days