Activity and Wellbeing Coordinator

Job overview

We have an opportunity for a part time advanced Activity and Wellbeing Coordinator to join our team delivering on our Staff exercise referral programme. The role would be required to work across all trust sites.

The role will have  responsibility for the promotion and management of our staff exercise referral programme. You will be delivering tailored, one-to-one movement and wellbeing interventions to staff identified as inactive or at risk of ill health. The role involves conducting initial assessments, designing personalised activity and rehabilitation plans, and supporting individuals to improve physical activity, lifestyle behaviours, and overall wellbeing. The role will work closely with multidisciplinary teams, including Occupational Health, Physiotherapy, and Staff Psychology, to ensure coordinated care, while also contributing to health checks, behaviour change support, and ongoing monitoring of participant progress to promote long-term self-management.

Main duties of the job

• Oversight of the staff gym facilities, including the overall day to day running of the gym suites, and ensuring all processes, policies and procedures, including in relation to the management of Service Level Agreements, Health and Safety and HR are followed.
• Give expert advice to our staff that are referred from into our Northumbria Safe, Fit & Well programme with a complex medical history or barriers to physical activity.
• To deliver the MECC agenda and offer expert advice on exercise, nutrition and healthy lifestyles, sign posting to relevant external services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Oversight of the staff gym facilities, including the overall day to day running of the gym suites, and ensuring all processes, policies and procedures, including in relation to the management of Service Level Agreements, Health and Safety and HR are followed.

• Give expert advice to our staff that are referred from into our Northumbria Safe, Fit & Well programme with a complex medical history or barriers to physical activity.
• To deliver the MECC agenda and offer expert advice on exercise, nutrition and healthy lifestyles, sign posting to relevant external services.
• Actively create, promote and sell activity and wellbeing services to staff community within hospital wellness facilities that raise the profile of and demonstrate its value to the staff community.
• Deliver an activity and wellbeing plan which incorporates a range of opportunities for staff to engage in wellbeing related activities within the gym and wellness facilities.
• Utilize facilities and develop a comprehensive offer of Fitness classes aimed at engaging Northumbria Wellbeing staff members (live and remote).
• Manage the wellbeing staff working within the hospital gym suites and wellbeing areas (indoors and outdoors), establishing weekly working rota’s, processes for working and supporting performance management and development processes including appraisals.
• Encourage and support staff development opportunities for wellbeing staff that are relevant to the needs of the staff community through regular meetings that cover the targets set in individual appraisals.