Health Promotion Practitioner

Here for Health is a dynamic service supporting patients in the Waiting Well Pilot programme, helping them optimise their health before and after surgery. The team uses an evidence-based Lifestyle Medicine approach and behaviour change techniques to support sustainable improvements in diet, physical activity, sleep, mental wellbeing, social connections, and reducing harmful substance use. You will work across professional and organisational boundaries, collaborating with a multidisciplinary team and external partners to support patient outcomes and address health inequalities.,

• Patient-Focused Health Promotion
• Programme Delivery & Coordination
• Stakeholder Engagement & Communication
• Data Collection & Service Evaluation
• Operational & Resource Management, Assess patients' health needs and deliver brief and extended health promotion and behaviour change interventions. Support self-management of lifestyle behaviours, including diet, physical activity, sleep, mental wellbeing, substance use, and chronic disease risk reduction, using motivational interviewing techniques.
• Programme Delivery & Coordination:
Deliver patient-focused programmes, contribute to health promotion campaigns, and support service quality improvement projects. Develop and maintain referral pathways and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and external partners to optimise patient outcomes.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Communication:
Build and maintain internal and external partnerships. Communicate complex or sensitive information effectively, maintain confidentiality, and respond to mental health or safeguarding concerns in line with Trust protocols.
• Data Collection & Service Evaluation:
Collect and analyse patient data to support service review, audit, and evaluation, monitoring outcomes and quality improvement.
• Operational & Resource Management:
Contribute to service development, maintain professional competence, and ensure smooth operational delivery, including resource management and emergency response.
• Education & Training:
Maintain professional knowledge and portfolio. Provide education and support to patients and contribute to teaching, supervision of students/volunteers, and team CPD sessions.


• Experience using motivational interviewing in professional practice
• Knowledge and skills in providing health promotion advice and support
• Ideally, stop smoking practitioner training
• A commitment to inclusive practice and addressing health inequalities
What you'll gain:
• Opportunity to develop health promotion and motivational interviewing skills
• Experience in a patient-focused, high-impact service
• Collaborative work with multidisciplinary colleagues
• Contribution to a strategically important programme supporting patient wellbeing
Hours: 9am-5pm, Monday to Friday,
• First level degree (Level 5 or 6) in relevant subject
• Evidence of continued professional development
Desirable criteria
• Motivational interviewing training
• Certified NCSCT smoking cessation practitioner
• Nationally recognised education/training in health behaviour change and healthy lifestyles including: - Brief Interventions - MECC - Alcohol & drug use - Sexual health, - Oral health, - Emotional well-being - Physical activity - Weight management, Experience of communicating health information and advice using a person centred approach.
• Experience in presenting information and delivering training.
• Experience in developing and maintaining information resources
Desirable criteria
• Experience working in the NHS or a health care setting.
• Experience of working with colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds.
• Experience undertaking basic health measurements such as blood pressure and BMI.
• Experience delivering health promotion campaigns.
• Experience of working across organisational boundaries to achieve a common goal.
• Previous experience of formal/informal teaching., Up-to-date knowledge in the speciality of healthy living and health behaviour change.
• Able to communicate complex and sensitive information simply and clearly, adapting style to suit the requirements of the audience.
• Willingness to learn and develop.
• Flexible, well-motivated, adaptable team member.
• Ability to work autonomously and proactively to support the needs of the service and initiate improvements.
Desirable criteria
• Knowledge of Oxfordshire healthcare services.
• Knowledge of relevant national guidelines, documents and policies on health promotion / improvement and how these relate to the service., Aligned to the Trust values
Technical skillsEssential criteria
• Computer literate with experience of working with the Microsoft Office package
  
  Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence., Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence, and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel. In 2023 NHS England launched its first sexual safety charter, and our Trust proudly signed it. We pledge zero tolerance for inappropriate sexual behaviour and commit to the ten core principles Oxford University Hospitals promotes a safe, respectful hiring environment. If you want to make a difference with us, come and join our team. Together, we will uphold the highest standards of care and professionalism., Sexual Safety Charter: In 2023 NHS England launched its first sexual safety charter, and our Trust proudly signed it. We pledge zero tolerance for inappropriate sexual behaviour and commit to the ten core principles Oxford University Hospitals promotes a safe, respectful hiring environment. If you want to make a difference with us, come and join our team. Together, we will uphold the highest standards of care and professionalism.