Physical Activity Lead - North East London Integrated Care System

Physical Activity Lead – North East London Integrated Care System

London Sport is a charity working to ensure more Londoners live longer, healthier and happier lives through being active. Supported by Sport England and the Mayor of London, we collaborate with those who share our vision, running and supporting projects that help children, young people and the least active adults embed sport and physical activity into their lives.

About the North East London Integrated Care Board
NHS North East London is responsible for planning and commissioning health services across north east London and are accountable for NHS spend and performance, ensuring all parts of the local health system work effectively together.

We set strategies, policies and plans where these are best done at the scale of the whole of North East London. We also set the overall financial strategy for the health system and make sure that everyone can get core services in an appropriate setting.

Our core purpose is to ensure that the population of North East London are healthy and thriving, with good levels of mental wellbeing, and good access to high quality health and care services that wrap around the individual, ensuring the best possible outcomes. Our agreed ambition as a partnership is that “we will work with and for all the people of north east London to create meaningful improvements in health, wellbeing and equity”.

About The Role

The Role
Our physical and mental health is our biggest asset and being physically active unlocks so much that’s good for our health and wellbeing. But despite this, and amid a backdrop of health inequalities, not everyone’s currently able to enjoy the benefits of an active life. In this exciting role you will work to realise the potential of physical activity to improve Londoner’s health and wellbeing.

Working within the North East London Integrated Care System and its range of related partners, the role will work to develop and support the routine use of physical activity as part of empowering Londoners, with or at risk of, long-term health conditions and other priority populations, to improve their health outcomes.

Key responsibilities
• Support leaders and commissioners in i) the NHS and health and care and ii) Leisure and recreation, at ‘system’ and ‘place’ level, to understand respective priorities, routinely share data and integrate physical activity within strategic planning to address health priorities and inequalities.
• Support planning/practical intervention by health and care and physical activity stakeholders within integrated ‘neighbourhood’ working.
• Assist the health and care workforce and partners to use physical activity and related behaviour change approaches to target and support inactive and less active individuals – and to be more active, themselves.
• Support the sport and physical activity workforce to confidently and appropriately accommodate inactive and less active individuals.
• Support the identification, development and collation of physical activity opportunities to meet the needs of inactive and less active individuals.
• Clarify and develop the integration of Physical Activity within Treatment and Care Pathways (e.g. Long Term Health Conditions, Elective Care, Health Checks etc) and as part of targeted prevention initiatives.
• Support identification of linkages and synergies with relevant programmes such as Sport England Place Based Partnerships, the UK Active ‘Exemplar ICS’ programme and initiatives to address worklessness and economic inactivity.
• Capture learning and impact and share within and across the ICS area, with London Sport and as part of reporting to the London Health and Care Partnership.
• Work to identify practical means of resourcing and funding this work, going forward.

About you
• You are knowledgeable of and understand health-related structures in London, ideally, gained through working within the NHS.
• You have strong strategic skills and are able to develop and deliver impactful and effective strategies and action plans.
• You have the ability to integrate a whole organisational approach to impact, including strategic alignment, outcome measurement and effective management reporting.
• You are an experienced influencer and advocate who can create collaboration, shared vision and impact amongst senior partners and stakeholders.
• You have a track record of managing impactful partnerships between a range of partners with excellent communication skills and a knowledge of how to work with funders, local authorities,
policy makers, charities and/or non-profit purpose driven organisations.
• You can demonstrate an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion in relation to London with a lived experience of day-to-day life in London.
• You can demonstrate a practical commitment to the Values and Behaviours of London Sport.
• You are passionate about improving the lives of Londoners.

Further Information

Key details:
• Full-time fixed-term contract for 12 months OR a full-time or 0.8 FTE secondment. We are open to discussing part-time and compressed hours contracts.
• Secondment: We welcome applications for secondment. This role may be particularly suited to candidates currently employed in the NHS but candidates employed in other related organisations such as Local Authority Public Health, health charities or NDPB’s (Non Departmental Public Body) are also welcome to apply. Please indicate if this is of interest when you apply.
• Salary: £62,215 – £72,293 per annum
• Offering 28 days’ holiday + 8 public holidays + 5 volunteer days + Christmas Closure*
• Competitive Pension scheme*
• Life Assurance and Health Cash Plan*
• Flexible working: we use a model of 2 plus days in the office – largely expected to be in the NEL ICB or partner office
• The role is deployed, jointly, by London Sport and NEL ICB. London Sport will provide functional line management with the role operating in and being hosted by the NEL ICB
• By applying for the role, you are stating that you are eligible to work in the UK. London Sport is unable to apply for a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role *if employed directly by London Sport

How to apply
Application is by completion of a short online application via our recruitment platform (Applied). We are committed to fair and unbiased recruitment and use Applied to remove any unconscious bias from our process. You will be asked to answer a small set of questions that address the job description and person specification. Candidates who successfully progress from the application stage will be invited to an interview.

• Deadline for applications: 11:59pm on Sunday 9th March 2025
• Interviews: Wednesday 19th/Thursday 20th March 2025

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