Role: Health and Wellbeing Advisor Salary: Grade: D £13,201 - £13,627 a year actual salary (£26,403 - £27,254 a year full time equivalent) Location: Derby Arena Hours: 18.5 hours a week including evenings, weekends, and bank holidays Closing Date: 10 June 2026 Contract Type: Permanent We are looking for an experienced Health and Wellbeing advisor to join our team at our busy and demanding multi-functional leisure and events Arena. The post is part of a team that always aim to deliver brilliant customer service to all our users, by helping the public lead healthier lives, delivering 121 sessions, classes and giving lifestyle advice. Excellent communication is a must as well as having a passion for supporting our members through their fitness journey to achieve better health and wellbeing outcomes. If you have the energy, motivation, and ambition to make a positive difference, we would like to hear from you. You should possess a minimum level 2 fitness instructor qualification. Who We Are Here at Derby City Council, we're dedicated to delivering nearly 250 first-class services to citizens and businesses in the heart of the Midlands. People are at the centre of all that we do, and we have an outstanding track record of recruiting and developing talented individuals by providing them with varied and fulfilling career opportunities. Find out more about what it's like to work for us. What We Offer You too could be part of something brilliant by becoming a colleague at Derby City Council; in addition to making a difference to the lives of people across the city, you'll also receive: • Flexible work/life balance scheme • Hybrid working • Continued professional development opportunities & career conversations • 27 days annual leave (rising to 32 days after 5 years' service), plus bank holidays • Local Government Pension Scheme • Team Derby Rewards - retail and leisure discounts • Tusker Car Benefit Scheme • Cycle2Work Scheme & free cycle training • Employee Assistance Programme, Wellbeing Calendar and Support • Access to our Equality Employee Networks - LGBTQ, Disabled Employee Network & Carers and our Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic Employee Support Network and Neurodiversity Network • Support for colleagues who are carers Next Steps If you would like to apply for this vacancy via an application form, please submit an application via the Derby City Council website. The closing date for this vacancy is at midnight on 10 June 2026. Any applications received after the closing date will not be accepted. If you would prefer to apply for this job using your CV, then please download the attached Declaration Form and send it to Michael.Haywood@derby.gov.uk. Without a completed declaration form, your application will not be accepted. We also encourage you to download the Equalities Form and return this to recruitment.team@derby.gov.uk, however this is optional and will not affect your application. Important Information Links to the full Job Description and Person Specification are below. All employees will normally be appointed to the minimum of the grade for the job. Before you complete your application form please read our guidance on filling in your application form. Remember to align your personal statement to the essential criteria in the Person Specification. Please be aware that where there are colleagues within the organisation who are 'at risk' of redundancy, requirements to redeploy to another suitable role will apply and take priority. Equality, Diversity & Inclusion We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. We recruit for diversity and value difference. As many of our roles can now be home-based, we are able to offer more opportunities for people who need this facility. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you are a disabled person, you have the choice to apply under our Guaranteed Interview Scheme so long as you demonstrate that you meet the essential requirements for the job. We feel it is essential that we recruit a talented workforce that is as diverse as the community we work for. Please let us know of any individual requirements or reasonable adjustments you may have during the application, interview, or onboarding process and we'll do all we can to help. We strongly believe in social understanding of disability and for us it's all about removing barriers to equality. If you have any questions regarding this vacancy or are having difficulty applying, please contact our Recruitment Team on 01332 640844 (Relay UK - 18001 01332 640 844) or at recruitmentteam@derby.gov.uk. https://www.derby.gov.uk/signing-service/ Please see Job Description here Please see Person Specification here Please see Declaration Form for CV Applications here Please see Equalities Form for CV Applications here Please see DBS Code of Conduct here