Development Officer

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Location: Base is Leicestershire County Council, County Hall. Active Together offers a hybrid home working policy.

Worker Category: Hybrid

Salary Range: Grade 10 - £34,350 - £37,950 per annum (pro rata for part time)

Contract Type: Fixed Term to March 2026 (initially 12 months, with extension subject to annual funding)

Hours: 37 hours per week (part-time/job share would be considered)

Closing Date: 5th December 2024

Interview Date: 18th December 2024

About the Role

Active Together (formerly Leicester-Shire & Rutland Sport) is a partnership organisation, working to help communities in Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland get moving a little more.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Development Officer, who would like to support us to work with communities, organisations and partners to deliver our Physical Activity Framework and support our vision of Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland: a place where physical activity is part of daily life, leading to people living healthier and happier lives.

National guidelines advise that physical activity promotion for inactive people with a range of long-term conditions and physical activity brief advice in healthcare is one of 'best buys' for getting a population active.

This post will support us to focus on increasing opportunities to embed physical activity advice and guidance into health care settings and amongst health care professionals, to both increase activity levels and improve the health and wellbeing of our residents. Examples of projects (although not a definitive list):

• Developing a universal and targeted approach to raise physical activity in low participating groups and settings.
• Raise awareness of the health and wellbeing benefits of physical activity to partners, settings and communities (with a focus on the health sector and health professionals).
• Supporting wider sector professionals and groups to embed physical activity into their settings / programmes / policies and have conversations about the benefits of physical activity (with a focus on supporting the health sector, healthcare professionals and health groups to embed physical activity into their settings / programmes / polices and have active conversations with patients about the benefits of physical activity e.g. working with GP Surgeries, Patient Participation Groups, Pharmacies).
• Support the development and delivery of relevant local and national physical activity campaigns / programmes to reduce inactivity and increase participation (with a focus on active medicine related campaigns / projects and landing these in health care settings e.g. Pharmacies, GP Surgeries)
• Encouraging everyone to embed regular, informal physical activity opportunities into their daily lives.
• Address the equality, diversity and inclusion challenges that are prevalent in physical activity provision.
• Make a positive difference to the physical activity levels in our Places and Communities

About You

To apply for this post you must have:

• BTEC Higher/NVQ 4 or degree in a relevant area or substantial experience in the areas below and ongoing continuing professional development
• Health and/or fitness qualifications (eg. Introduction to Public Health, Exercise Referral, Walk Leaders)
• Behaviour Change/Making Every Contact Count/Motivational Interview Training

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.

In addition, we expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

Interested in Flexible Working

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Jo Spokes, Strategic Lead

Telephone: 01509 467493

Email: [email protected]

How to Apply

Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity, and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services, we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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