Active Living Programme Lead

Overview

This role will play a key part in shaping and delivering 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.

Preferred attributes

• 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 focussing on improving health and reducing health inequalities through physical activity programmes. This will involve:
   • the 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. Deliver excellent partnership working, influencing and negotiating throughout
3. Take a delivery lead for elements of specific work streams in the related field on behalf of the council, developing and delivering district strategy to support these work areas, influencing partnerships such as the Cycle Wakefield steering group to steer and deliver the strategies and monitoring the progress of the strategy 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. Specialist area of physical activity, public health and active travel knowledge, which will be used 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 to help the council achieve its duties and responsibilities for health improvement and health protection (Health and Social Care Act 2012). This will ensure that the council and its partners are using all the levers at their disposal to improve health and wellbeing, embedding health approaches into policies and practice.

Location

Wakefield One, Burton Street, Wakefield, WF1 2EB, WF1 2EB