Job Vacancy For An Engagement And Peer Support Officer At ABL Health
This is an exciting opportunity to join ABL in Sandwell to support the delivery of a high quality Stop Smoking service across the Sandwell borough.
You will work flexibly within the designated six towns, working and engaging with a range of communities and partners to increase referrals into the service by partnership engagement and recruit and coach peer ambassador facilitator networks across various settings. You will work within the heart of communities to engage with difficult to reach groups, encouraging local people to volunteer to support the service, and support people to identify barriers to accessing services (language, mental or physical health, digital exclusion, etc.) as well as working with the wider team to break down barriers and improve service development and delivery -easing the transition from potential client to active client.
You will be confident in the use of social media to engage with stakeholders, including producing posts and communications via Facebook Messenger and Facebook pages. You will be expected to engage at neighbourhood, community, and place level to recruit a team of Peer Support Volunteers who will work to increase referrals into the service and build long-lasting relationships with local partners, this will involve being responsible for developing and maintaining strong, positive relationships with a wide range of communities and organisations to support the development of the services communication strategy.
You will be a motivated, passionate, organised and proactive communicator, with experience of working in a community setting. ABL takes a strengths focused asset-based approach to community delivery, looking to innovate and partner, not replicate or duplicate delivery so positive partnership work is a must. The role will require dynamic working which embraces the vision and values we wish to establish for the service, supporting people to achieve health lives.
You will need excellent communication skills, experience of working with volunteers, and be able to travel across the borough and work flexibly including some evenings and weekends.
For more information about the requirements for the role and details of how to apply, please click here.
Applications close the 14th July 2024.