Pre-falls Physical Activity Lead

• Employer: Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council
• Salary: £32,061 to £35,412 per annum plus benefits.
• Location: Wirral
• Contract: Temporary
• Working Pattern: Flexible Hours/Full Time
• Hours: 36 hours per week.
• DBS Check: Enhanced
• Closing Date: 07/12/2025 at 23:59
• Reference: NS/25/326524

There has never been a more exciting time to join Wirral Council. We've got ambitious targets to meet and to achieve everything we have promised to our residents, we need people who are ready to deliver the very best for our communities and show how they can #BeTheDifference. Our vision is to secure the best possible future for our residents, defined by the community prosperity we create and supported by our excellent people and services. If you strive to #BeTheDifference and want to be at the heart of our change and improvement journey, then this could be the perfect job for you.

Pre-falls Physical Activity Lead

Fixed Term Contract until 14th October 2027.

About the role:

Active Wirral are looking for a Pre-Falls Physical Activity Lead to join the Active Wellbeing team at Wirral Council. The team work across Wirral, supporting residents to make sport and physical activity part of their everyday lives.

You will co-design and implement a pilot Universal Preventative Offer to support older adults to live stronger, healthier and happier lives.

This role will be based with Wirral Council, working in partnership with Public Health, Primary Care Networks and health partners.

About the Candidate:

You will create an evidence based, systemic approach to reducing the number of adults needing to access the falls prevention programme through increasing activity levels of those residents that have a higher rate of falls due to long term health conditions and health inequalities.

The focus will incorporate approaches such as community asset and strengths led approaches to improving health and wellbeing and will aim to focus on communities who experience the greatest inequalities in health.

You will need to display excellent communication skills and be able to work in an agile, multi-disciplinary and compassionate manner to co-produce the offer. You will need to be creative in your thinking and adopt a systemic approach to place-based working to reach agreed key performance indicators.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Fiona Hanik via email at

Interviews to be held on Tuesday 16th December2025.

This post requires a DBS check. The Safer Recruitment & Employment Policy and the Disclosures for Recruitment Procedure can be found at :

If your skills, knowledge or experience looks a little different from what we have identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you - as subject to the skills, knowledge or experience levels within the candidate pool we may explore a traineeship for this role.

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