Creative Health Development Officer
UK (Hybrid)
Posted 2 months ago
Job Description
Salary range: Grade 9 £42,060 - £43,680 p.a. plus fantastic benefits
Contract: Fixed Term /Secondment
Hours of work: 36 hours also 28.8 hours per week considered
Location: Croydon
About the Creative Health Programme
Working closely with Croydon’s Public Health team, the Creative Health team supports local artists and community organisations to expand delivery of arts and creative activities that support health and wellbeing through four main strands:
- Creative Health Network – providing networking opportunities, free training, fundraising support and strategic oversight to 170+ individuals and organisations interested in Creative Health in Croydon
- Community Grants – delivering grant schemes to provide seed-funding to support local Creative Health events and projects
- Targeted Interventions – managing the development of new Creative Health interventions tackling complex local priorities with cross-sector stakeholders
- Advocating for the Sector – linking with Health, Social Care and other partners to increase support, uptake and alignment of Creative Health initiatives with the broadest range of stakeholders
About the Role
Reporting to the Creative Health Programme Manager, this is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and inspirational individual to provide maternity cover for the programme’s Development Officer role. This role contributes to all strands of the Programme, with a particular focus on supporting the co-development of Targeted Interventions to meet local priorities, assessing and supporting community grant schemes and engaging with local partners to ensure high quality creative health work is available to all residents.
Find out more about the work of Croydon’s Creative Health Programme by visiting https://www.culturecroydon.com/home/creative-health-croydon/
Croydon Council’s priorities
The Council balances its books, listens to residents, and delivers good sustainable services
- Get a grip on the finances and make the council financially sustainable
- Become a council which listens to, respects and works in partnership with Croydon’s diverse communities and businesses
- Strengthen collaboration and joint working with partner organisations and the voluntary, community and faith sectors
- Ensure good governance is embedded and adopt best practice
- Develop our workforce to deliver in a manner that respects the diversity of our communities
- Croydon is a place of opportunity for business, earning and learning
- Children and young people in Croydon have the chance to thrive, learn and fulfil their potential
- Croydon is a cleaner, safer and healthier place, a borough we’re proud to call home
- People can lead healthier and independent lives for longer
- Croydon Council’s new ways of working
Equal Opportunities Statement
Croydon Council is an inclusive employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Subject to business needs, we will be pleased to consider applications from candidates seeking flexible working arrangements and support hybrid working, whereby staff attend the workplace for part of their working week and work from home, or elsewhere, remotely for the rest of the time.
As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the advertised role.
Croydon council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.
The Successful candidate will be subject to a DBS check, if the role requires one.
Croydon Council
We provide a large number of services for local people, businesses and visitors to the borough, including services for children and adults, and environmental, cultural, sports, housing, planning and benefits services.The borough is split into 24 electoral wards, and local elections are held every four years. With a workforce of approximately 3,300 staff, including teachers in schools, Croydon Council is the largest employer in the borough. Spending over £900 million per year, the council makes a significant contribution to the local economy. The council comprises three main political functions, the Executive (Leader and Cabinet), Committees, and Scrutiny.The Leader and Cabinet are responsible and accountable for shaping policies and plans and recommending them to the council for approval. Cabinet also gives direction to departmental directors on the way services are managed and the budgets allocated to them. Six non-executive committees take decisions relating to planning, licensing, standards of behaviour and conduct for members and officers, staffing issues, tenders, property transactions, liaison with local utility companies and internal audit. Scrutiny holds the council executive functions to account. Examining aspects of council performance, the Overview and Scrutiny Committee also increasingly involves other local agencies which contribute to the economic, social and environmental well-being of the local population.
Salaries
Posted range
£42K/yr – £44K/yr
Taken straight from the job posting.
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