Place Partnership Hipa

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**Organisation**
- Kirklees
- **Directorate**
- Public Health and Corporate Resources
- **Service Area**
- Governance & Commissioning
- **Hours**
- 37
- **Number of Jobs**
- 1
- **Location(s)**
- Across Kirklees
- **Position type**
- Temporary
- **Length of contract**
- Fixed Term up to 18 months
- **Grade**
- Grade 13
- **Salary**

£46,731 - £48,710

Kirklees has recently been successful in securing funding from Sport England to deliver a programme of work to improve levels of physical activity across the district. This is an exciting opportunity to work with our local communities and key organisations from health, local government, and wider [our Place Partnership] to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of the people of Kirklees.

This is a key role working across the Kirklees system to develop and lead a programme of work over an initial 18-month period. It is responsible for setting up and leading the ongoing development and delivery of our Place Partnership work.

This funding unlocks the possibility of taking an entirely different approach to addressing physical inactivity. It is essential that we identify the reasons for physical inactivity in the communities we have identified to work with, the root causes and barriers behind this, and identify systemic changes required to support physical activity becoming a natural and enjoyable part of people's lives. Recognising that the existing leisure offer and significant number of established sports clubs across the district may not be the first or natural answer for this demographic.

The role is hosted within the Public Health team in Kirklees Council on behalf of our Place Partnership and our offices are in the centre of Huddersfield. It reports to a Public Health Manager, although the jobholder will also need to work with systems, sectors, and partners from various organisations including health and care, and the programme is overseen by our Place Partnership steering group.

Main Duties:
The role will lead our development work over a period of 18 months. It will actively engage with our communities and be able to work innovatively to work with them on community-led research, development & design to develop and test approaches to increasing physical activity that work for them.
In doing this they will lead the development of service and community interventions to improve levels of physical activity. This may include how statutory bodies build approaches to increasing levels of physical activity into service delivery, working with community organisations to design and deliver new or extended community led programmes to help people to become more active, or building links with other work across Kirklees such as creative health work and employment teams.
They will also work with system partners to develop, amend, and implement policy changes or procedures to improve levels of physical activity, proposing changes in conjunction with working groups which have wider implications across the Kirklees place.

For more information on the role or a discussion please contact:
**Rebecca Breeze**is the manager for this role, please contact them on 01484 221000 for an informal discussion, or if you need any more information.**
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

**Closing date**

01 June 2025, 11:55 PM