Does your day-to-day work bring you into regular contact with individuals and/or communities that need support in the London Borough of Hounslow?
Are you involved with a local community/voluntary group within the borough?
If yes, then you could become part of the Hounslow health trainers project.
What are health trainers?
Health trainers is a government initiative which receive core training in a number of key health areas to ensure a broad base of health awareness
Following training they are encouraged to offer health advice and support in a group and/or individual setting and provide links to further specialised local health advice and support
Current Hounslow health trainers are people already working and / or volunteering with local communities with the aim of communicating consistent messages about healthy lifestyles
Locally health trainers have come from a range of backgrounds ranging from youth workers, fitness instructors, and community development officers to smoking cessation facilitators and refugee workers. All have the common role of working with local people or groups in the borough, either through their work or voluntary activity
What are the benefits of becoming a Hounslow health trainer?
Free local training on a number of key health topics including:
Healthy eating
Physical activity
Emotional health and wellbeing
Sexual health
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Behaviour change
Build your knowledge of health messages, information, resources and services, which you can use in your day-to-day work and/or community groups to contribute to improving the health of local communities in Hounslow.
Access further training opportunities in health topics that particularly interest you.
Free regular newsletters and access to health trainer support events.
Following the training access to the small grants scheme to enable you to undertake health related projects with the communities you have contact with.
Ongoing support in developing health projects and giving health advice.
Advice and support to help you progress to become accredited NHS health trainer.
How to become a Hounslow health trainer
Contact us for an information pack and application form.
If you hope to use the training within your current role either as an employee, ensure that:
you discuss the information pack with your manager
they support your application and understand the benefits it will bring to your current role
they will support you in undertaking the core training below and incorporating it into your current role
If you hope to use the training to work with a community/voluntary group you are part of ensure that:
there will be opportunities to use the training with your organisation or group.
After you've complete the application form we will contact you to arrange a time convenient to you where you can meet us and ask any further questions you may have about the project.
Once your application has been confirmed you will be given the dates of the next available set of training sessions.
Attend the core sessions that run over 4 days:
Motivational Behaviour Change
Food and Physical Activity
Smoking, Alcohol and Drugs
Sexual Health, Emotional Health and Well-being
Make a personal commitment to incorporate promoting healthy lifestyles in your day-to-day work and/or community/voluntary group.
Contact us
Email:
adultsocialcare@hounslow.gov.uk
Write:
Public Health Initiatives Officer
Community Services
Civic Centre
Lampton Road
Hounslow
TW3 4DN