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Health Champion

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is looking for Workplace Health Champions. If you enjoy one or more of these aspects below, then this is an opportunity for you!

  • Enjoy creating health message display boards and encouraging others to adapt or maintain a healthy lifestyle
  • Enjoy encouraging people to partake in sporting events or activities
  • Enjoy organising events within your ward or department

The purpose of this role is to embed staff health and wellbeing into all we do as a Trust. This role requires 1 hour per week (during work hours) and you must gain support from your line manager in undertaking this role on behalf of your ward/department. You will have the opportunity to complete accredited training, meet other health champions and be involved in the development of new workplace health initiatives.

No formal qualifications or experience is necessary and we are looking for representatives of all grades, both within primary and secondary care and from all areas of the Trust (Lancashire, Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde).

If you are motivated and enthusiastic to promote good health and wellbeing within our workforce then we want to support you in doing this. Please follow the link below, which outlines the health champion role: Health Champion Role and Expression of Interest Form.

Please email your form to bfwh.wellteam@nhs.net or post to Hannah Foxcroft, Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Whinney Heys Road, Blackpool, FY3 8NR. Alternatively for more information please call 01253 95 7638.

We look forward to hearing from you!

About our Health Champions

Our current list of Health Champions are:

  • Sarah Chippendale
  • Caroline Spence
  • Judy Camp
  • Sophie Khansia

You can find more about them by viewing the Health Champions section.