Active Place Development Officer

Working Hours: 36 hours per week

Location: Various Locations across the city

Closing Date: 12 January 2024

Salford Community Leisure (SCL) is committed to Building a Great Place to Work; with over 500 employees servicing more than 3 million customer visits at 60+ venues across the city each year. We exist to ‘enhance the lives of people through providing sport, leisure and cultural opportunities’. We pride ourselves on recruiting the right people with the right values into the right roles. We are looking for professional, respectful, knowledgeable, passionate and solution-driven people to join our team as we strive to deliver excellence to our customers.

We have an exciting position available for an Active Place Development Officer whose role will be responsible for supporting the objectives of Salford’s Place Partnership, funded by Sport England, to engage with people living in East Salford to lead a more active lifestyle. The Active Place Development Officer will apply a person-centred community asset approach (PCCA) to listen and work with community members, to advocate the health and wellbeing benefits of moving more, and to provide support for existing community groups to address barriers to be more inclusive, encouraging additional opportunities for engagement (i.e. volunteering, social memberships, family activities). This role will be based at various locations across the city and will be part of the Active Communities Team.

We are looking for someone who:

• Demonstrate a clear connection with people in diverse communities in East Salford
• Support the organisation to engage with people living in diverse communities who are not that active to co-design solutions and support more people in East Salford to move more every day
• Lead on various existing physical activity programmes which promote inclusive activity
• Test new innovative solutions using data intelligence and insight to support more people to move more
• The Active Place Development Officer will link to additional interventions as part of the Salford (and Greater Manchester) Place Partnerships working towards increased activity levels, and approaches to ensure positive behaviour change through whole systems approaches to increasing Physical Activity
• Attend Salford Physical Activity Alliance steering group, and work with relevant partners – other duties as directed, in discussion with other partners
• Working as part of overall Place Partnership team to co-ordinate, promote and develop opportunities in Salford
• Consistently demonstrates SCL’s behaviours

If you wish to be considered for this role and join our team please return your application form to Cheryl Keenan at [email protected] no later than 5pm on Friday 12 January 2024, ensuring you detail how you meet and demonstrate the skills, experience, knowledge and behaviours outlined in the person specification. Please note CVs will not be accepted.

Successful applicants will be notified of interview date.

Please be aware that this post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and that you will be required to meet the cost of the DBS check – currently £44.00. The payment deductions for any employees who need DBS checks will be taken in 2 payments of £22. If you do not commence employment for any reason but the DBS has been processed, you will be sent an invoice for the payment of £44.00.

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For more information on Salford Community Leisure visit our website: www.salfordcommunityleisure.co.uk