Health Improvement Practitioner
7 months ago
**Working at various facilities in Eastbourne - Job Share can be considered**
**Salary - £29,371.50 per annum (full time - 39 hours per week)**
**Background**
Wave Active is an award-winning charity and social enterprise, supporting local communities with facilities, activities, and services to inspire active lifestyles.
Our purpose is “Inspiring Active Lifestyles” and vision, “To be at the heart of the improvement of health and wellbeing in the Community”.
Managing 15 leisure facilities and Newhaven Fort, across the Lewes District and Eastbourne Borough of East Sussex we are passionate about providing opportunities that support individuals to gain, regain or maintain: health, fitness, and wellbeing.
Offering a range of activities across our facilities and multifunctional spaces, our team is dedicated to creating an approachable environment enabling individuals to prioritise their health and wellbeing journey.
As a charity, formed in 2006, Wave Active continues to ensure all surplus revenues generated from activities are reinvested back into the community in the form of: facility developments, refurbishments, employment opportunities, new programmes of activity and to support those with health conditions to make health improvements.
**The Post in Context**
We believe that our Purpose “Inspiring Active Lifestyles” and Vision; “To be at the heart of the improvement in health and wellbeing within the community” are our USPs.
Delivering to the principles of Community and Health Improvement, this post will have a priority to provide support to those with health conditions (physical, mental and emotional), to engage with positive health and wellbeing activities, for identified health improvement.
The post holder will provide advice, information, guidance, and support opportunities for people to appropriately participate in activity, make positive health and wellbeing decisions and lead to more active and healthier communities.
The position of Health Improvement Practitioner will be tasked to build on and deliver the three primary areas of focus, namely.
**1. Increase Participation. **Facilitating access to appropriate activity, through a single point of access, to include virtual engagement and development of digital resources.
**2. Delivery of Physical Activity. **Delivery of small group and/or 1:1 engagement, as an introduction to activity.
**3. Development and Retention. **Upskilling Centre based staff, through guided instruction, to support participants into physical activity. Primarily through the introduction of Physical Activity Prescriptions, knowledge sharing and supporting delivery, to enable greater opportunities for participation for those in need of guided support.
Defining success is an essential part of the role and as such there will be a responsibility to ensure that data is accurately recorded and submitted for reporting purposes, in line with clearly defined targets.
**Purpose of the Post**
The Health Improvement Practitioner would provide advice, information, guidance and introductions to physical activity, across Eastbourne and Lewes District, with set areas being developed as part of developing work programme. Through the provision of remote services, physical activity prescriptions and small group work, the priority target group will be those with a diagnosed health conditions and supporting engagement with those from specialised populations to gain, regain or maintain physical activity for an identified health outcome.
A focus will be to support the development of personalised health improvement pathways into activity. Working from a point of initial contact, onwards into appropriate activity, with points of review to enable sustained participation to enable health goals for an individual to be achieved.
Engaging with fitness teams, across Wave sites, the post holder will need to support and advise on the creation and delivery of appropriate physical activity programs, for identified health goals, which are supportive of a range of diagnosed health conditions.
Delivery will not be age restricted, but inclusive of young people, families, adults, and older people, to enable wider access to expertise to support those with a health condition to make health improvements.
This post requires an enhanced DBS check and completion of safeguarding certification.
**Summary of Main Duties and Activities**
**Increase Participation**
**1. **Engage with other health and wellbeing professionals to promote the benefit of physical activity for improved health and wellbeing, to include social, exercise on prescription and opportunities which are available through Wave.
**2.** To be aware of local and national health promotion campaigns, linking with the Marketing team to provide information and resources for promotion of physical activity for improved health and wellbeing.
**3. **To support the development and delivery of remote and digital offerings, particularly f
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