Public Health Programme Manager - Physical Activity

The purpose of the role is to improve the health and wellbeing of people in Tower Hamlets and reduce health inequalities through the promotion of physical activity, capitalising on the opportunities afforded to us through ‘Be Well’, our new insourced leisure services and community sport partnership.

The post holder will build and maintain relationships with commissioners and funders of health and social care interventions to deliver and grow our existing physical activity action plan, informed by a partnership owned theory of change. 

The post holder will set out a proposed commissioning & investment strategy which will detail what services within the health and social care economy could contribute to this agenda, informed by our emerging Physical Activity Health Needs assessment.

This role will need to work across a large project team and will contribute to the broader Public Health teams plans and duties, as well as support service design and deliver of the health agenda across leisure and health and care services. 

This is a fixed term contract for 18 months.

Key responsibilities include:

• The post holder would lead on the implementation of the Public Health Physical activity programme.
• Supporting the development of any relevant health and wellbeing initiatives and physical activity pathways across health and care services and Be Well in line with the health promoting leisure theory of change, this will include the identification of funding and commissioning opportunities for the implementation of such initiatives.
• Working collaboratively with partners from across Tower Hamlets to support the implementation of the physical activity needs assessment (2025) recommendations.
• Acting as the leisure and public health representative on the emerging Tower Hamlets Physical Activity Place-based partnership.
• Lead the Public Health Physical Activity Network
• Leading on the evaluation of any new health and wellbeing initiatives within Be Well, including the NHIR PHIRST evaluation.
• Writing and presenting relevant papers for senior-level boards
• Supporting development of any relevant new initiatives linked to health and wellbeing, such as a single point of access, developing a business case for any initiatives identified.
• Exploring and designing commissioning and payment models for partner services, as required.
• Identifying and implementing an approach to work alongside residents to develop the offer.

This post will ultimately help the council and its partners to achieve better health and wellbeing outcomes for residents, particularly those currently least active. This will be achieved by increasing accessibility to Be Well; and providing a more comprehensive, joined-up and accessible health and wellbeing offer to residents. Through achieving better health, the health and social care system will also experience reduced demand as a result of the preventative approach taken; and the new service will experience a wider range and number of residents, leading to increased income for the council, supporting the financial sustainability of the service.

Additional Details

Tower Hamlets vision for our borough is that: people are aspirational, independent and have equal access to opportunities; we are a borough that our residents are proud of and love to live in; and we are a dynamic, outcomes-based council using digital innovation and partnership working to respond to the changing needs of our borough. We want people who aspire to our TOWER values: Together; Open; Willing; Excellent; Respect.

Tower Hamlets has a zero-tolerance approach to, and works to eradicate, all forms of discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, status as a civil partner, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy and maternity and looks to employ a diverse workforce representative of those groups. We recognise that people can also be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class.

We welcome applicants interested in flexible working arrangements and also applicants who live in the borough.