Physical Activity Officer

3 months ago


Witney, United Kingdom Publica Full time

**Physical Activity Officer**
**£27,397 to £27,499 per annum, 37 hours per week**
**Fixed term**
**Witney**

Are you passionate about community development and making a positive impact? Do you thrive on building relationships and helping others? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our team as a Physical Activity Officer at Publica Group Ltd in Witney

**About the role**

As a Physical Activity Officer, you will play a vital role in shaping and strengthening the communities we serve, bringing high quality sport and physical activity sessions into reach for vulnerable families across West Oxfordshire. You will be working collaboratively with our partners, including Active Oxfordshire, to continue the roll out of the successful countywide You Move project in West Oxfordshire.

If you believe you meet most of the requirements for the role, please apply. We offer great training and support to help you to reach your potential.

Some of your responsibilities will include:

- Providing practical support and encouragement to residents facing disadvantage, helping them to get active and recognise and break down barriers to participation.
- Managing the deployment of casual staff and sports coaches to deliver sport and physical activity programmes.
- Staying on top of the administrative part of the role keeping all documents up to date.
- Maintaining positive relationships with activity providers and seek out new partners
- Planning the development, implementation, and review of the physical activity outreach work in line with Corporate Priorities.

**You will need**
- Coaching/fitness qualification (UKCC level 2 or equivalent).
- Awareness of legal framework and policies surrounding working with children and young people and safeguarding vulnerable people.
- Strong interpersonal skills and display of empathy and compassion.
- A minimum of 5 qualifications equivalent to NVQ level 2 or GCSE at Grade C/4 or above, must include Maths and English
- Experience in a similar role, delivering community-based activities.

**Special conditions**
- Ability to travel with access to a car that can be used for work purposes
- DBS check
- There may be a requirement to work at other Publica Group (Support) Ltd and/or client locations to meet the needs of the business
- We would consider a job share. You will be expected to work reasonable additional hours in line with the needs of the service

For more information about this role please see the Job Description/Person Specification. Internally, this role will be called a Senior Activator.

You will be employed by Publica Group Ltd which was created by four partner Councils (West Oxfordshire District Council, Cotswold District Council, Cheltenham Borough Council and Forest of Dean District Council) to deliver more efficient and improved services.
Publica is a unique place to work - we are a local government organisation with a twist Publica wants to transform the way local services are delivered. To help do this we have started to fundamentally rethink the way we design our services in the digital era so that Publica is a customer-focused organisation driven by real user needs.

**What can we do for you**
- Agile working allowing a mix of home and office working
- Flexible working arrangements (depending on the role)
- 27 days paid annual leave (pro rata if you are working part time) plus bank holidays and an extra two volunteering days off a year for you to support a charity of your choice
- Health cash plan giving you cash back on health, dental and eye care
- Pension scheme with a good employer contribution of 5% of your earnings
- Employee Assistance Programme 24/7, providing positive, preventative and supportive advice and counselling to deal with everyday events and issues
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary sacrifice car lease scheme with huge tax and NI savings to be made on electric cars
- Access to digital financial advice (covering your pension scheme, mortgages and other finances)
- Generous sickness cover above statutory entitlements
- Additional income protection, covering 50% of your salary for potentially a further five years if you are unable to work due to sickness or injury
- Life assurance, currently four times your annual salary



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