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! It’s a super exciting time to join us as we enter our third year delivering our tier 2 weight management service across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, and we’re looking for an Engagement & Partnerships Officer to join us!

Our service is designed to support residents of Hampshire and IoW to access the support they need to lose weight and improve their health. This can be done through a number of programme options including face-to face provision, our exercise option, or our digital weight management programme with health mentor to support, to ensure the weight loss journey is successful.

As an Engagement & Partnerships Officer, you will be required to develop strong relationships with healthcare professionals/organisations/services across Hampshire and IoW, promoting the service and supporting the generation of referrals into the service. You’ll be required to cultivate effective partnerships to support our aims of providing effective weight management programmes that delivers to the residents of Hampshire and IoW, particularly for our key population groups and demographic areas.

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.

A typical day as an Engagement & Partnerships Officer might include:

• Forming, developing and maintaining relationships with healthcare professionals across the integrated care system (ICS), including; the integrated care board (ICB) at Primary Care Network (PCN) level, GP Practice level, and NHS Trust level (secondary care; acute and community)

• With strategic guidance from the Service Lead and working closely with other Thrive Tribe services across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight to maximise promotional activity and referral generation, implement our marketing and communications strategy, to ensure the service meets its key performance indicators

• Adopt a highly strategic and targeted approach to healthcare engagement and partnership management, aligned to the service's focus on key priority groups and populations (ethnic minorities, men, and individuals who reside in Index of Multiple Deprivation ranks 1-3)

• Present to key stakeholders across the system, to support referral generation into the service

• Attending networking/outreach events and relevant healthcare professional meetings (e.g. PCN meetings, health/weight management promotion events) in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, to share information about the service and programmes, ensuring colleagues in primary and secondary care are aware of the eligibility criteria, referral routes, the efficacy of the programmes, embedding ‘our place’ within the system, as a valuable contributing partner

• Exercise pathway co-ordination. Including locating and liaising with host venues or leisure providers, arranging booking of venues, and setting up Service Level Agreements with the venues.

• Engage in joined up working with primary and secondary care to develop effective and efficient referral routes into the programme

• Using population health data to identify key priority groups in order to focus referral generation activities (strategic thinking and application is essential)

• Generating and sharing service performance feedback, referral and outcome data with primary and secondary care settings

• Working together with primary care colleagues to create targeted messages/letters to patients, whilst supporting their population health goals

• Administrative tasks to support our exercise pathway, such as processing new referrals, emailing new referrals programme details, logging weights on our database, and managing related queries from service users.

• 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 Information Governance and Clinical Governance legislation, requirements and guidance

• 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…

More than anything, we are looking for a team player who puts their heart in to their work. We’ve got some

core values that run through everything we do, and we’d love it if they resonate with you too!

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. 

Be effective

You’re patient and can adapt under pressure. Always happy to make time for other people and have a great attitude. You are an exceptional communicator and keen networker with experience of building lasting relationships.

Be happy 

You recognise the power of a smile. You value a fun, supportive workplace and want to come to work raring to go (check out our rating on Glassdoor).

Be successful

You are motivated and driven. Happy working solo or as part of a team, you love generating ideas and implementing health improvement campaigns. You 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, you want to engage in meaningful work and change lives.

To work with us in this role you will need to have some knowledge or experience in networking, referral generation and/or partnership management, as well as an understanding of health inequalities and approaches on how to engage those experiencing them into health promotion services – bonus points if you have experience of working with partners across a healthcare system!

We are looking for an outstanding Engagement & Partnerships Officer, to cover Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. If you have built pre-existing partnerships within the health and wellbeing sector across Hampshire, then we’d love to hear from you!

However, we hire based on attitude over traditional skills and experience so if you feel you are right for the job please submit an application.

Perks…

Every person makes Thrive Tribe the incredible place it is to work and play together, we’re unstoppable. Within our buzzing environment our talented people work hard but we ensure lots of fun is thrown in too! We offer you;

• 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 (plus Bank Holidays!)

• And last but not least, a day on us to live by our values!

Contract: 0.8 FTE (30 hours per week), Permanent

Salary: Starting at £19,200 (£24,000 FTE) with a salary band increase per year, rising to £26,000 FTE.

Closing Date: The closing date for applications is Friday 27th June. We reserve the right to close the opportunity early should we receive enough quality applicants.

Applicants will be contacted to outline the next stages of the process. Interviews are likely to take place week commencing Monday 7th July and will be held remotely.

To apply: Please attach your CV and a covering letter outlining why you are right for the position.

For more information, please contact Jack Bennett (gloji Hampshire and IoW Service Lead) at jack.bennett@gloji.co.uk