Health and Business in Thanet (HABIT) has been formed to include cross sector businesses, statutory agencies (NHS, Local Authorities & Police) local communities and the voluntary sector to advise on action, raise awareness and share best practice that will promote health and wellbeing in education, training, business and employment.
It is a collective drive to determine how best to promote health and care services to the population and encourage self-management of lifestyle, including healthy eating and exercise.
The emerging programme of work will be wide-ranging, high profile and the group will seek to ensure that it is adequately resourced. It will involve businesses including SME's, statutory agencies and the voluntary sector in East Kent. It will seek to galvanise existing resources where possible and seek to secure additional resources to deliver agreed areas of focus.
The group will play a vital role in helping the programme capture and make use of their insights into the views and experiences of the local population, ensuring that local people's needs and public concerns are taken into account when setting the priority areas of focus.
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Health & Business in Thanet (HABIT) was formed in 2017 to include representatives from businesses, statutory agencies, the local community and the voluntary sector to advise on action, raise awareness and share best practice that will promote health and wellbeing in education, training, business and employment. Its aim is to address the long-term deprivation of the Thanet population by raising awareness of the positive actions that can be taken to improve the health and well-being.
The group has an ambitious programme of work and make use of their insights into the views and experiences of the local population, ensuring that local people's needs and public concerns are taken into account when setting the priority areas of focus. Following the recent retirement of the current Chair, HABIT is seeking a new voluntary chair to continue drive this important work. The new chair of HABIT will need to:
When asked Members of the steering groups said they felt that HABIT needs a chair with "effective leadership skills who is able to create connections, open doors, put people together and get them talking with a view to achieving measurable outcomes".
If you meet this person specification and would be interested in undertaking this voluntary role please contact Brad O'Connell on info@thinkhealthyme.co.uk.