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Active Oxfordshire has a highly skilled, forward-thinking and friendly team committed to tackling inactivity and fighting inequality across our county. As well as our core team, we work with a wide range of partners from statutory, voluntary, education and health sectors, alongside our incredible Active Ambassadors to ensure that we are fully inclusive and celebrate the diversity of our community.

We offer excellent rates of pay and annual leave, opportunities for training and development and the chance to be part of a forward-thinking organisation making a real difference to our local community.

This is an exciting opportunity to join Active Oxfordshire and to work as part of a Sport England project evaluating a place-based approach to the highly valued national training programme. This is a key programme that supports achieving Active Oxfordshire's strategic priorities and is a fantastic opportunity to lead and drive forward the delivery and development of the PACC programme.

About the role:

You will be responsible for organising and delivering clinician-to-clinician training on Physical Activity for the Management and Prevention of Long-Term Conditions to other NHS health care professionals.

You will work closely with both Active Oxfordshire and the central PACC team, make use of their own networks and build relationships with local and regional stakeholders and organisations, developing a local online community of practice and encourage healthcare professionals in Oxfordshire to continue to develop their knowledge and skills.

About you:

Your background will be from a range of clinical settings, and you will be able to demonstrate good clinical decision-making skills and knowledge of the healthcare system

You will have experience of formal classroom and clinical-based teaching, and of developing staff development and education programmes. You will have exceptional online teaching and presentation skills, and be able to engage an audience and deliver information in an interesting way

You will have proven knowledge of the role of physical activity as a tool for primary and secondary prevention and management of long-term conditions. You will have a good understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy, and appreciate the implications of this on engagement

What we offer:

• The role is a fixed-term position until 31st March 2027, working 15 hours per week.
• You will receive a salary of £26,000 – £29,000 (FTE) per annum, and benefits including a generous 10% contributory pension scheme, Cycle to Work scheme, 38 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays (pro rata) and our new bespoke Employee Support and Wellbeing Programme.
• If the best candidate for the role is currently working in a regional NHS organisation, we will actively support a secondment arrangement for the duration of the project wherever possible.
• Hybrid working is available, which means typically one day a week is in the office (Monday) with the rest of the week working remotely from home, within the community or with partner organisations.

Active Oxfordshire welcomes applications from all sections of the community and actively encourages diversity within our team to maximise achievements, creativity and good practice. We know that people from certain backgrounds can be hugely under-represented in our sectors, and we want to change this. We are therefore genuinely keen, and particularly interested to receive applications from people from diverse ethnic communities, from disabled people, neurodivergent people, people who identify as LGBTQIA+ and people with experience of facing barriers to physical activity.

We want all candidates to have an equal chance to shine in this process – please let us know if there's anything we can do to make sure the application process works for you (Further contact details can be found in the job pack).

Please visit:

Place-Based Physical Activity Clinical Champion (PACC) job - Kidlington, Oxfordshire, OX5 2DN - Active Oxfordshire

You will be asked to provide a CV (2 pages or less) and to answer 3 questions (no more than 250 words per question).

Closing Date: Friday 16th January

By applying for this role, you are stating that you are eligible to work in the UK. Active Oxfordshire is unable to apply for a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.

1) Successful applications will never be contingent on a driving license or access to a car. 25% of our current team do not drive and this has no impact on their capability to do their job.

2) Online interviews will always be available where that supports the accessibility of the process.

3) Salary transparency – we will always advertise the salary of a role, including whether it is negotiable.

4) Regular language - we try to remove jargon and industry specific language as much as possible. If anything in the below does not make sense, then please challenge us on this.

5) Applications are redacted to remove certain information, so that potential unconscious biases are reduced.

6) Candidates will always be sent any interviews questions or tasks in advance.

7) Candidates can also bring notes to interviews. We would much rather you remember all of your great examples and tell us about them, than remember on the way home.

8) We will not ask for a Degree unless it is absolutely the only way that someone can become qualified or experienced to carry out a specific role. Undergraduate Degree admissions are heavily dominated by White British students (e.g. 72.6% in 2019-2020 academic year) and by specifying a Degree as a requirement we narrow the opportunities of talented people who are part of the global majority.

9) We will never try to catch people out or make their life difficult in our recruitment processes but instead will be doing everything possible to create the conditions where people can celebrate and demonstrate their talents.

10) Candidates will be encouraged to dress comfortably for interview. Our panel won't be dressed in business attire and we very seldom would be in the course of our work.

We welcome and actively encourage applications from all sections of the community, and strongly believe that a diverse team is crucial to maximise our creativity, achievements and impact. We are a friendly and welcoming organization, and strive to ensure that everyone who works at Active Oxfordshire can be themselves. 77% of our staff team take advantage of the part time and flexible working policies which are open to everyone. We have a strong focus on equity, diversity and inclusion, whilst fully recognizing that we are on a journey ourselves. We positively seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability or nationality

The Active Oxfordshire team all bring with them a diversity of experiences and backgrounds into the team and our work. We believe that there is no one single or conventional route to take to be successful in your career, and we welcome and encourage all applicants.

To understand some of the different journeys we've had into our current roles, you can hear from Sal (Head of Healthy Active Children), Ellie (Healthy Active Neighbourhoods Manager), and Harmy (Equity and Engagement Manager) as they discuss the different paths that they've taken and how they found their roles at Active Oxfordshire.