About the role
The Activity Buddy coordinator will:
1. Coordinate and deliver the Activity Buddy Programme in North Northamptonshire, by working 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.
2. Work with partner organisations and healthcare professionals in the community, to identify participant referrals onto the Activity Buddy Programme to support North Northamptonshire residents to be active.
What will you be doing?
The post-holder is responsible for engaging, recruiting, managing and matching scheme members with other members. Matching is based on need, locality, availability and activity preference.
Updating a database of information for Health, Wellbeing and Leisure services and activities in North Northamptonshire, to ensure that participants are made aware of these opportunities and can make informed choices to be or stay active.
Listen to, understand and support participants to put in place ‘personal activity plans’ to ensure every participant has the opportunity to be active, regardless of any barriers, and have access to their chosen Health, Wellbeing and Leisure services.
About you
Must have a friendly, approachable and outgoing personality
Ability to work under own initiative
Able to clearly communicate and use empathy with others
Highly motivated and the desire to help and support others
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:
3. a competitive salary
4. a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
5. lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
6. generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
7. 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 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.
Disability Confident Employer
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.
Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council
Armed Forces Community
The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).
Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)