Healthy Behaviours Community Coordinator
What skills and experience we're looking for
- West Suffolk College (Built Environment Campus), Bury St Edmunds - With travel across all sites*
- 37 hours per week, 52 weeks per year - Fixed Term until September 2028
- Salary: £26,703 per annum - £29,058 per annum (Dependent on qualifications and experience)
As a Healthy Behaviours Community Coordinator, you will help children, young people and families across West Suffolk lead healthier lives and make a meaningful difference to local communities. Working in partnership with schools, communities and health organisations, you will deliver engaging programmes that promote physical activity, healthy eating, wellbeing and positive healthy behaviours.
You will play a key role in delivering the Bitewise Programme and supporting the Healthy Active Schools Award, helping schools create healthier environments and encouraging positive lifestyle choices. Working closely with schools, Active Lakenheath, Eastern Education Group, Norfolk and Suffolk ICB, Integrated Neighbourhood Teams and other community partners, you will build strong local partnerships to coordinate and enhance health and wellbeing initiatives across the region.
The role combines programme delivery, community engagement and partnership working, with a focus on reducing health inequalities and improving health outcomes. You will coordinate activity across the Lakenheath locality and wider West Suffolk priority areas, engage children, young people and families in a range of health and wellbeing programmes, support access to services, deliver workshops, and help evaluate and report on outcomes to demonstrate the impact of interventions and drive continuous improvement.
*Travel between sites is required; therefore, access to your own transport would be highly desirable.
What the school offers its staff
- Membership into Local Government Pension Scheme
- Family friendly policies and flexible working
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Canteen
- Access to various memberships and discount schemes
- Learning and development opportunities, including staff development days
- Funded subject course development for your role
- Range of staff communities, including EDI and neurodiverse communities
- Career progression opportunities
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
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