About the role
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and experienced individual who will be responsible for coordinating and delivering the Activity Buddy Programme in North Northamptonshire, by engaging with and supporting residents to attend Health, Wellbeing and Leisure Services with other ‘Buddy’ members; reducing some of the common barriers, restrictions and fears people may have when attending activity sessions on their own. .
What will you be doing?
The post-holder will be responsible for engaging with, recruiting, managing and matching scheme members with other members; utilising place-based working, community settings and locality areas throughout North Northamptonshire. Matching is based on need, locality, availability and activity preference.
Actively promoting and marketing the scheme to ensure that participants are made aware of these opportunities and can make informed choices to be and stay active
About you
Experience of working with and engaging adults within the Health and Wellbeing or Leisure Industry is essential alongside a qualification in health, sport, psychology or recreation. Our chosen candidate will be able to clearly communicate and use empathy with others and will have a friendly, approachable and outgoing personality.
Post holder must be willing to travel across North Northamptonshire
This is a fixed term funded project to 31st March 2027.
Interviews will be held on Thursday, 13 February 2025.
Our benefits
Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.
You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!
Why choose us?
We offer a vibrant working environment with:
- a competitive salary
- a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
- lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
- generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
- hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.
About us
Our Values and Behaviours
Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:
Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy
Our Key Commitments
Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.
We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.
North Northamptonshire Council re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant in June 2024 which highlights the Council’s pledge to support the Armed Forces community. The council obtained the silver status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) and we are now currently working towards achieving Gold status.
We aim to be a carbon neutral Council by 2030.
Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)
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