Health and Wellbeing Instructor

3 weeks ago


Blackburn with Darwen, United Kingdom Blackburn with Darwen Council Full time

Job description

**Terms and Conditions: Permanent, Part time, 30 hours per week**

**Department: Health and Wellbeing**

**Shortlisting Date: 26th February 2024**

Blackburn with Darwen Borough council’s health and wellbeing team are looking to recruit a highly, motivated, passionate individual, to work as a Health and Wellbeing instructor.

**About us**: We are committed to our ambition to work together and create a healthier, safer, and fairer Blackburn with Darwen, where everyone benefits from sustained improvements in health and wellbeing, staying as healthy as possible for as long as possible. To achieve this, we work in collaboration with people to support them in improving their health, and work to create strong, trusting partnerships with professionals to work together, widen the networks and increase the health and wellbeing offer across the borough. We respect and adopt the diverse borough that we work in, and endeavour to reduce health inequalities, making a healthy lifestyle accessible for all. We treat team members as individuals and embrace their contributions in supporting the innovative, continued development of forming a positive, thriving team.

**About the role**: The role of a Health and wellbeing instructor is to reduce inactivity, promote healthy weight, improve mental health and wellbeing, and support the people of the borough to lead a healthier lifestyle. It will involve planning and delivering safe and effective physical activity and healthy weight interventions across the whole lifecourse in a range of community settings and green spaces. To support health inequality agendas, targeted specific groups including females, older adults, BAME groups and adults with learning disabilities and autism, within the most deprived areas of borough.

**About you**: Do you have any skills, knowledge, or experience in the key areas below, that we are looking for in a health and wellbeing instructor?
- Experience in delivering physical activity (either paid or voluntary), with the ability to travel to venues across the borough to fulfil service delivery (including transportation of equipment).
- Experience of delivering sports and physical activity sessions to adults with learning disabilities and autism.
- Experience of delivering specific training such as walks leaders, balance bike and cycle leader.
- Experience of delivering safe and effective ante and postnatal exercises to support birth, recovery and beyond.
- Qualifications or experience working on referral programmes such as GP, cardiac, stroke, falls prevention and/or weight management.
- You need to be reliable, approachable, have excellent presentation / communication skills and a flexible approach to working (occasional evening or weekend working may be required to meet the needs of the service).
- You must enjoy being part of a team; yet possess the personal management skills to work alone.
- The ability to use computers to maintain records and enter data on our web-based client management systems.
- You will need to be highly organised, motivated, and resilient.

**In addition to your CV, please include supporting information which evidences how you meet the criteria detailed on the key requirements document.**

**Job details**:
Job reference
- REQ02682

Date posted
- 08/02/2024

Application closing date
- 23/02/2024

Location
- Blackburn with Darwen

Salary
- Grade E,SCP 9 - 18, £25,119 - £27,803 Per annum/pro rata

Package
- Blank

Contractual hours
- 30

Basis
- Part time

Job category/type
- Council



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