Active Living Programme Lead

Role Overview

This role will shape and deliver programmes such as Move More Wakefield, Cycle Wakefield and wider active travel initiatives, with a strong focus on supporting communities who face the greatest barriers to being active.

Candidate Profile

• Have experience leading teams and delivering programmes
• Are confident working in partnership across sectors
• Have a background in public health, behaviour change, or active travel
• Are passionate about reducing inequalities and improving wellbeing through physical activity

Responsibilities

1. Work within and manage a team focusing on improving health and reducing health inequalities through physical activity programmes. This will involve:
   • Delivery and coordination of various targeted projects that encourage greater participation in physical activity by a wider and more diverse range of people, including those from under represented groups and those not traditionally involved
   • Whole district physical activity programmes
   • Commissioning partner organisations to deliver specific physical activity outcomes
   • Contributing towards the Move More Wakefield place partnership aims and outcomes
2. To deliver excellent partnership working, influencing and negotiating throughout
3. Take a delivery lead for elements of specific work streams in their related field on behalf of the council, developing and delivering district strategy, influencing partnerships such as the Cycle Wakefield steering group, steering and delivering the strategies and monitoring progress to senior managers
4. Work towards clear corporate objectives such as supporting every child to ride a bike by age 12 and developing and managing programmes to achieve this
5. Manage a team of physical activity officers to run, facilitate and participate in numerous physical activity improvement programmes across the district, encouraging individual and population level behaviour change towards physical activity
6. Have a good understanding of the barriers faced by individuals in accessing services and making behaviour change and be able to work to remove these barriers
7. Specialise in physical activity, public health and active travel knowledge, using this to:
   • Identify resident and stakeholder needs relevant to the area of work through analysis of qualitative and quantitative information
   • Review national standards and best practice to ensure that physical activity improvement work is targeted appropriately
   • Make a case for and secure additional resources as a result
8. Disseminate information widely in appropriate formats to a range of other professionals across the council and wider partners
9. Embed a full range of public health specialisms and practice across a range of services and partners, helping the council to achieve its duties and responsibilities for health improvement and health protection under the Health and Social Care Act 2012, ensuring that all levers are used to improve health and wellbeing and public health approaches are embedded into policies and practice