About Us
Sandwell
Development Officers
Board
Sandwell
Introduction
Welcome to the Healthy Sandwell website.
Healthy Sandwell is here to help residents live healthier and happier lives. We have lots of programs just for you, whether you want to stop smoking, lose weight, or get support with addiction.
No matter who you are or where you live in Sandwell, we can help. Our goal is to give you the information you need to make good choices for your health and the health of your family.
Want to know more about what we do and our award-winning services? Check out our Director of Public Health Annual Report.
Thank you for joining us on this journey.
Awards
Liann Brookes- Smith
Interim Director of Public Health
Sandwell
Healthy Sandwell
Welcome to Healthy Sandwell! We are part of Sandwell Council’s Public Health team. Our goal is to help everyone in Sandwell live healthier and happier lives.
We want to motivate you to make good choices for your health and offer help early on. We work with doctors and other groups to support you. Our approach is all about you and what you need to keep you fit and healthy. Our team is dedicated and passionate about improving health and wellbeing. We have the expertise to provide a package just for you. You can get in touch with our team by filling out the contact us form.
Development Officers
Public Health Development Officers
Meet our Public Health Development Officers. They play a big role in keeping everyone in Sandwell fit and well.
Each of Sandwell’s six towns has its own Public Health Development Officer. They play a big role in keeping everyone in Sandwell healthy and well. They work hard to improve health in their area and enable people to get the support they need.
They host regular town Public Health network meetings. These meetings bring together representatives from various sectors, including voluntary, statutory, community groups and organisations. The primary goal is to coordinate and align activities, avoid duplication, share resources and knowledge, and increase investment into each town. This collaborative approach aims to make it easier for residents to access the services and activities they need for a healthy and happy life.
The entire approach is rooted in the principles of asset-based community development, as outlined in the below Stronger Sandwell principles:
The focus is on identifying and leveraging the existing strengths and assets within the community to promote health and wellbeing.
Prioritising the specific needs and characteristics of each town and investing resources locally to address these needs.
Ensuring that all residents have access to the necessary services and support, with an emphasis on inclusivity and equity.
Public Health Development Officers work across the following settings:
Addressing health and wellbeing needs in educational settings, which may include schools, colleges, and community education programmes.
Collaborating with healthcare providers to ensure residents have access to local health services.
Supporting and developing health and wellbeing initiatives with local partners in each town.
Promoting health and wellbeing in the workplace.
Board
Health and Wellbeing Board
Sandwell Health and Wellbeing Board are working hard to make our community healthier. We bring together people from across Sandwell to work together to achieve this goal and reduce health inequalities.
Our goal is to move away from the treatment of the illness to the prevention of its causes. If you are interested in making your community better, you’ll find information and updates here about how we are helping people stay healthy and happy in Sandwell.
The Sandwell Health and Wellbeing Board is a group of people who want to help everyone in Sandwell be healthy and happy. The board is made up of councillors, local GPs, council officers and members from the faith and voluntary community sector.
We have meetings where we listen to the stories and ideas of people in the town. Hearing the real voices of local people brought the meetings to life and inspired board members to take action. We know that real people will benefit from this work.
We want everyone in Sandwell to have an equal opportunity to live a healthy, happy and fulfilling life. The meetings are held in public and you can view the agenda and accompanying papers before the meeting using our Modern.Gov System.
What are we doing?
To make improvements we need to have an accurate picture of the health and care needs of people in Sandwell now, and what is needed for the future. We must:
- Agree on what is most important
- Plan out what we need to do to make the biggest impact
- Be clear about how this will happen, who will do it and when
- Set measurable aims and objectives, so we can report on the progress we are making.
Finding out what local people need
The Board is working on a refresh of its Joint Strategic Needs Assessment. This is the detail that board members collect and share that shows us what the current and future health and social care needs of people in Sandwell are. We are refreshing the needs assessment to reflect the borough Vision for 2030 and its ambitions; focusing on what’s strong not what’s wrong.
Whilst we are working on this, there are still a number of legacy JSNAs which you may want to take a closer look at on our Sandwell Trends website.
Planning to make an impact
The Health and Wellbeing Board wants to work with local people to improve health and wellbeing and make sure that everyone who lives and
works in Sandwell is treated fairly, with the same chances in life as everyone else.
What do you think of our plans?
Do you think the board is focusing on the right things? What are your experiences in your local area?
What are you doing and how can you help to improve health and wellbeing in Sandwell?
Contact Us
You can contact the Health and Wellbeing Board by emailing a member of the board directly, or by email to HWB_Board@sandwell.gov.uk
Sandwell
What’s “Stronger Sandwell”?
‘Stronger Sandwell’ is a new approach to improving health in our local area. The Council, SCVO and other organisations will be shifting more resources towards local community projects. That is, projects run BY local people FOR local people.
The film below explains a bit more about Stronger Sandwell. You can also check out our Stronger Sandwell partners SCVO. Then, take the plunge and contact us with your BIG idea!
That way we’ll better harness Sandwell’s ‘strengths’, including our community’s ideas and skills!
Just tell us your ideas! Whether you’re an established voluntary sector organisation, a local club, a group of friends or an individual. We want to work with you to make your ideas happen.
About Us
Introduction
Welcome to the Healthy Sandwell website.
Healthy Sandwell is here to help residents live healthier and happier lives. We have lots of programs just for you, whether you want to stop smoking, lose weight, or get support with addiction.
No matter who you are or where you live in Sandwell, we can help. Our goal is to give you the information you need to make good choices for your health and the health of your family.
Want to know more about what we do and our award-winning services? Check out our Director of Public Health Annual Report.
Thank you for joining us on this journey.
Awards
Liann Brookes- Smith
Interim Director of Public Health
Healthy Sandwell
Welcome to Healthy Sandwell! We are part of Sandwell Council’s Public Health team. Our goal is to help everyone in Sandwell live healthier and happier lives.
We want to motivate you to make good choices for your health and offer help early on. We work with doctors and other groups to support you. Our approach is all about you and what you need to keep you fit and healthy. Our team is dedicated and passionate about improving health and wellbeing. We have the expertise to provide a package just for you. You can get in touch with our team by filling out the contact us form.
Public Health Development Officers
Meet our Public Health Development Officers. They play a big role in keeping everyone in Sandwell fit and well.
Each of Sandwell’s six towns has its own Public Health Development Officer. They play a big role in keeping everyone in Sandwell healthy and well. They work hard to improve health in their area and enable people to get the support they need.
They host regular town Public Health network meetings. These meetings bring together representatives from various sectors, including voluntary, statutory, community groups and organisations. The primary goal is to coordinate and align activities, avoid duplication, share resources and knowledge, and increase investment into each town. This collaborative approach aims to make it easier for residents to access the services and activities they need for a healthy and happy life.
The entire approach is rooted in the principles of asset-based community development, as outlined in the below Stronger Sandwell principles:
The focus is on identifying and leveraging the existing strengths and assets within the community to promote health and wellbeing.
Prioritising the specific needs and characteristics of each town and investing resources locally to address these needs.
Ensuring that all residents have access to the necessary services and support, with an emphasis on inclusivity and equity.
Public Health Development Officers work across the following settings:
Addressing health and wellbeing needs in educational settings, which may include schools, colleges, and community education programmes.
Collaborating with healthcare providers to ensure residents have access to local health services.
Supporting and developing health and wellbeing initiatives with local partners in each town.
Promoting health and wellbeing in the workplace.
Health and Wellbeing Board
Sandwell Health and Wellbeing Board are working hard to make our community healthier. We bring together people from across Sandwell to work together to achieve this goal and reduce health inequalities.
Our goal is to move away from the treatment of the illness to the prevention of its causes. If you are interested in making your community better, you’ll find information and updates here about how we are helping people stay healthy and happy in Sandwell.
The Sandwell Health and Wellbeing Board is a group of people who want to help everyone in Sandwell be healthy and happy. The board is made up of councillors, local GPs, council officers and members from the faith and voluntary community sector.
We have meetings where we listen to the stories and ideas of people in the town. Hearing the real voices of local people brought the meetings to life and inspired board members to take action. We know that real people will benefit from this work.
We want everyone in Sandwell to have an equal opportunity to live a healthy, happy and fulfilling life. The meetings are held in public and you can view the agenda and accompanying papers before the meeting using our Modern.Gov System.
What are we doing?
To make improvements we need to have an accurate picture of the health and care needs of people in Sandwell now, and what is needed for the future. We must:
- Agree on what is most important
- Plan out what we need to do to make the biggest impact
- Be clear about how this will happen, who will do it and when
- Set measurable aims and objectives, so we can report on the progress we are making.
Finding out what local people need
The Board is working on a refresh of its Joint Strategic Needs Assessment. This is the detail that board members collect and share that shows us what the current and future health and social care needs of people in Sandwell are. We are refreshing the needs assessment to reflect the borough Vision for 2030 and its ambitions; focusing on what’s strong not what’s wrong.
Whilst we are working on this, there are still a number of legacy JSNAs which you may want to take a closer look at on our Sandwell Trends website.
Planning to make an impact
The Health and Wellbeing Board wants to work with local people to improve health and wellbeing and make sure that everyone who lives and
works in Sandwell is treated fairly, with the same chances in life as everyone else.
What do you think of our plans?
Do you think the board is focusing on the right things? What are your experiences in your local area?
What are you doing and how can you help to improve health and wellbeing in Sandwell?
Contact Us
You can contact the Health and Wellbeing Board by emailing a member of the board directly, or by email to HWB_Board@sandwell.gov.uk
What’s “Stronger Sandwell”?
‘Stronger Sandwell’ is a new approach to improving health in our local area. The Council, SCVO and other organisations will be shifting more resources towards local community projects. That is, projects run BY local people FOR local people.
The film below explains a bit more about Stronger Sandwell. You can also check out our Stronger Sandwell partners SCVO. Then, take the plunge and contact us with your BIG idea!
That way we’ll better harness Sandwell’s ‘strengths’, including our community’s ideas and skills!
Just tell us your ideas! Whether you’re an established voluntary sector organisation, a local club, a group of friends or an individual. We want to work with you to make your ideas happen.
