Organisation Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club Salary £26,000 per annum Location Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club Contract type Permanent Closing date 30 January 2026 Interview date 6 February 2026 Job Description Position: Health & Wellbeing Activity Officer
Reporting to: Deputy Head of Trent Bridge Community Trust
Responsible for: Assistant Health & Wellbeing Officer (PT), Casual Coaches, Placement Students
Location: Trent Bridge Nottingham, NG2 6AG
Hours: 35 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent Fulltime
Salary: £26,000
We are Trent Bridge, a cricket ground of global repute first established in 1838. We’re proud of our illustrious history but mindful too that our future prosperity is reliant on continual investment in our facilities, our professional team and our lauded community programmes.
Working under the Trent Bridge Community Trust, we are seeking a dynamic and enthusiastic Health & Wellbeing Activity Officer to play a key role in the delivery of our Health & Wellbeing programmes, including the Forget Me Notts Dementia Programme and the Notts in Mind Mental Wellbeing Programme. The post holder will be responsible for delivering high-quality physical activity sessions and wellbeing workshops that support individuals living with dementia and their carers, as well as those requiring mental wellbeing support.
Videos of the programmes:
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Priority Focus Areas
A. Team Leadership: Lead, motivate, and support a dedicated team of staff, casual workers, and volunteers, ensuring they deliver exceptional programmes.
B. Measure Success: Monitor and evaluate programmes to showcase their impact and ensure they meet targets and outcomes.
C. Shine a Spotlight: Promote our work through social media, community events, and outreach activities.
D. Manage Programmes: Deliver innovative, person-centred physical activity and mental wellbeing programmes that foster resilience and wellbeing
E. Build Connections: Cultivate and sustain meaningful partnerships with stakeholders and community organisations.
F. Champion Safeguarding: Uphold the highest standards of safeguarding and Health & Safety compliance, ensuring every programme is a safe space for adults to thrive.
G. Be Financially and Strategically Accountable: Manage the budgets associated with programmes and identify and access external funds and grants. Ensure Health & Wellbeing programmes are embedded into the strategic plans.
H. Be a Mentor & Role Model: Support the development of staff and volunteers to support our Health & Wellbeing Programmes.
A. Team Leadership
• Support and manage the Assistant Health & Wellbeing Officer, Casual Coaches, Volunteers and any other new staff related to projects under your jurisdiction.
• Carry out quarterly and end of year reviews, for the Assistant Health & Wellbeing Officer, ensuring annual targets are set and reviewed against the Trust Strategy and Funders KPIs.
• Identify training needs for staff.
B. Measure Success
• Recording and tracking attendance using Upshot.
• Producing regular updates and case studies to showcase the impact programmes have on those attending our sessions.
C. Shine a Spotlight
• Promote our work through social media, community events, and outreach activities.
• Produce content to support social platforms
• Produce appropriate marketing to promote activities and programmes, including a monthly Health & Wellbeing Newsletter
• Deliver presentations to partners as appropriate.
D. Manage Programmes
• Plan, promote and deliver all the Health & Wellbeing sessions, including the Forget Me Notts Dementia programme and Notts in Mind Mental Wellbeing programme, using a variety of sport and physical activity sessions, mental wellbeing workshops and special guest sessions.
• Promote and sustain existing sessions and develop new sessions where appropriate, linked to the Trust Strategy and external funding providers
• Sustain the Forget Me Notts member’s forum to help shape the content of sessions.
• Organise and coordinate the annual Forget Me Notts Christmas Lunch.
E. Build Connections
• Sustain existing partner relationships and develop new partnerships with organisations that can support our programmes.
• Attend the Rushcliffe Dementia Action Network meetings on a quarterly basis, to help share good practice and provide signposting opportunities.
F. Champion Safeguarding
• Ensure all relevant Health & Safety and Adult/Safeguarding policies and legislation are adhered to.
• Annually review Risk Assessments, Emergency Action Plans and Safeguarding measures for adults with the relevant members of the team.
• Support the County Safeguarding Manager to review policies and procedures.
G. Be Financially and Strategically Accountable
• Be involved in shaping new funding applications to support existing and new sessions.
• Monitor the Health & Wellbeing budget.
• Be involved in helping to shape the Trust Strategy and KPIs.
H. Be a Mentor & Role Model
• Establish a volunteer programme that can provide opportunities for people to support our Health & Wellbeing sessions.
• Recruit, train and deploy Placement Students to support the delivery of programmes as required.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
Experience of working with and supporting people living with long-term health conditions
Experience of providing mental wellbeing support to individuals in need
Experience of working with key stakeholders and partners to deliver initiatives or projects (, public health bodies, social prescribers)
Desirable
Experience of working with and supporting people living with dementia
Experience of coordinating and supporting volunteers
Experience of working with diverse communities
Knowledge
Essential
Knowledge of safeguarding adults
Understanding of the impact long-term health conditions have on individuals and their families
Desirable
Knowledge and understanding of the impact dementia has on individuals and their families
Skills
Essential
Ability to plan and deliver fun, engaging, and safe activity sessions
Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
Strong administrative skills, with competent use of IT systems including Word, Excel, Outlook, and other digital platforms
Ability to learn and develop new knowledge around dementia and mental wellbeing
Ability to meet agreed targets and deadlines
Ability to manage and organise own time effectively
Ability to operate safely in the workplace by identifying risk and applying safe working practices
Ability to deal with challenging behaviour
Desirable
Ability to manage key relationships within a community setting
Qualifications (or willingness to work towards)
Essential
Level 2 Fitness Instructor qualification (or equivalent)
Current First Aid qualification
Safeguarding qualification
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) training
Desirable
Dementia Friends training
Mental Health First Aid qualification
Qualities & Attitude
Essential
Enthusiastic, reliable, and punctual
Positive and outgoing personality
Empathic and caring nature, with a strong desire to support others
Ability to motivate, develop, and support others
Ability to work effectively as part of a team and build strong working relationships with colleagues and partners at all levels
Ability to work under pressure with minimal supervision
Ability to follow organisational policies and procedures
Willingness to work outside normal office hours when required
Other Requirements
Essential
Proactive approach to personal development, with a willingness to share learning with others
Ability to travel independently between sites (full, valid driving licence required)
Willingness to work unsocial hours, including evenings and weekends, when required
Willingness to undertake an enhanced ECB DBS check
Desirable
Willingness to undertake further training
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