Job Title: Health and Wellbeing Officer

Location: Carlisle or Workington

Salary: £31,067 to £31,586

Hours: 37

Contract: Permanent

Are you looking for a rewarding challenge? Would you like to be part of making positive changes to someone’s life?

We have the opportunity for a Health & Wellbeing Officer to join our existing Health & Wellbeing Team, working with individuals aged 16 years and over across Cumberland, who would like to make positive changes to their lives and will have a specific focus on quitting smoking.

Most of the people we work with have faced a period of crisis or have multiple issues that they need to understand and work through, making this role both challenging and extremely rewarding for the right person.

About the role

Within the role, you will need to able to adopt a coaching approach and have the personal skills to build trusting and authentic relationships with individuals in our community. You will work in a non-directive style, help people to stop smoking and motivate them to make positive changes, whilst also understanding and reducing any barriers to change.

Smoking remains one the biggest causes of death and ill health in the UK. As part of the local authority’s commitment to becoming Smoke Free in 2030, funding has been allocated to the Health &Wellbeing Team to provide people who smoke the opportunities to access appropriate support to quit smoking at the right time for them.

For some people, quitting and staying smoke free is more problematic therefore these roles will focus on:

1. a) supporting people from the 20% most deprived communities who have, for example, mental health, homelessness, and substance misuse.
2. b) supporting people who are on a respiratory health pathway including targeted lung health checks, people receiving enhanced health checks and people who are part of the Waiting Well project.
3. c) supporting people from groups where smoking rates are high for example unemployed, those that work in retail, hospitality, and manual & routine workers
4. d) supporting people in communities without a universal service offer.

The role offers:

• One to one and group work with a focus on behaviour change
• Provide aids and NRT to aid quitting.
• Deliver a rolling 12-week programme of support for those wanting to quit.

Who we are looking for:

The successful candidate will be able to:

• Coach people to take action on factors that influence health and wellbeing – primary smoking.
• Work alongside people to reduce health inequalities by understanding inequality and identify ways in which they can address and sustain changes into the future.
• Help build independence and resilience to meet future crisis.
• Understand and challenge behaviours, raise awareness and build personal responsibility.
• Engage with our local communities and social networks, but also link the people we support together and encouraging them to create self-led community/social groups.

We would love to hear from anyone who could be a great asset to our team. If this sounds like you, then please apply today!

We plan to hold online sessions via Teams for anyone who is interested in applying for the role and would like some further information. If you would like to receive an invite to a session, please email HAWCrecruitment@cumberland.gov.uk

If you have any questions about this role, then please email HAWCrecruitment@cumberland.gov.uk 

Contact

For more information about the role or to arrange an informal chat prior to your application, please contact Kirsty Mills by email at Kirsty.Mills@cumberland.gov.uk

DBS Checks
This role requires a DBS check. The level of check for this role is - Enhanced DBS Check with an Adults Barred List check.

Please note this role involves working in regulated activity with adults. It is an offence for people who are barred from working in regulated activity to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with adults.

Guaranteed Interviews

We offer a guaranteed interview to the following applicants as long as your application can demonstrate you meet the essential criteria for the role.

• Those who consider themselves disabled as defined by the Equality Act 2010
• Those in care or who have left care and are aged 24 and under
• Armed forces veterans whose last long term substantive employer was the armed forces

If you meet one or more of the criteria above, and wish to be considered for this scheme, select 'yes' to the appropriate question during your application. Find out more

Diversity, Inclusion & Adjustments
We’re dedicated to enhancing the diversity of our workforce and we encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds. That’s why we’re a proud Disability Confident Employer and also an Age Friendly Employer – to provide opportunities for everyone to thrive.

If you need any reasonable adjustments to participate in the recruitment process, please let either the hiring manager or our Resourcing Team know by emailing Resourcing@Cumberland.gov.uk. While adjustments aren’t always guaranteed, we’ll always listen and we’ll try our best to accommodate your needs.

Application and Interview information

• Closing date: 28/04/2025
• Interview date: TBC

Please note this role may close early subject to demand. If you’re interested in applying, you should apply well before the advised closing date. We cannot accept applications once the role has closed.

We will be holding in-person interviews for this role. This will include a group activity, an emotional resilience session and a 1-1 interview

Please read the supporting information:

• Post Specification

Please also refer to our Careers site to find out more:

• Our Staff Benefits
• Candidate Support
• About Cumberland Council