Healthy Communities Officer

Join us as a Healthy Communities Officer and play a vital role in promoting prevention, healthy living, and reducing health inequalities across Lancaster. You’ll support and coordinate projects that empower residents to live healthier lives, strengthen partnerships, and contribute to lasting system change in our community.

What You’ll Be Doing
You will lead and deliver health improvement initiatives such as Make Every Contact Count and the Smoking Cessation Project. Using local data and community insights, you’ll coordinate workstreams, organise meetings, and report progress to partners and decision-makers. You’ll build strong relationships with residents, voluntary groups, NHS colleagues, and council teams, facilitating community conversations and workshops to ensure our projects meet local needs.

You’ll Fit Right In If…
You have experience coordinating projects and working with diverse communities and partners. You’re organised, a clear communicator, and able to influence others positively. Your approach is warm, inclusive, and empathetic, reflecting our values of Working Together, Ambition, Pride, and Ownership. A driving licence or access to transport is essential to support community-based delivery.

Ready to Join Us?
If you’re passionate about making a real difference in people’s lives and shaping the future of health in Lancaster, we’d love to hear from you. Find out more about what it’s like working with us, our benefits, values and culture, by visiting lancaster.gov.uk/sites/recruitment.

Why Work With Us

Our Benefits
• Generous annual leave
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• Discounted gym membership
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Car purchase scheme
• Lifestyle savings
• Health Care Cash Plan
• Volunteering days
• Wellbeing support

Flexible working friendly
We welcome discussions about flexible working and may be able to offer hybrid working, a generous flexi-time scheme, and agreed working hours to support work–life balance.

Inclusive employer
We welcome applications from all parts of the community and are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone is treated with dignity and respect.
We guarantee interviews for applicants with a disability and armed forces veterans who meet the essential criteria.