Job Introduction
Department of Health and Well being
Public Health – Living Well Community Development and Engagement Worker
Band/Grade: BAND 7 Salary: £ 28,142 pa - £ 31,022 pa (Pro rata for Part Time Posts)
20 hours per week (part time)
Work area Shipley Locality, Based at Britannia House.
Bradford Council Public Health team are seeking to recruit a part time Living Well Community Development and Engagement Worker for Shipley in as part of Healthy Communities team.
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of Living Well Community Health Development and Engagement Team. Living Well is Bradford’s whole system approach to addressing the rising levels of obesity and reducing the high levels of premature and preventable deaths within the district. Living Well Community Development and Engagement worker will support to deliver priorities in the Living Well programme including aspects of health promotion such as improved physical activity, active ageing, healthy eating, smoking cessation and improved wellbeing. Using Community centred approaches to improving health, community development and engagement to determine community priorities, identified needs, interests and assets to enhance engagement, empowerment and ensure solutions are appropriate. These posts will be key in progressing the work to support our communities, improve health and wellbeing outcomes for all and help address health inequalities across Bradford District.
Post holders will directly engage with the local community groups, reach out to underserved communities, build community capacity and work with system partners to improve health and reduce health inequalities. This role will be key in developing local community networks, setting up and supporting grassroots community/volunteer groups, offering fundraising support to small community groups, signposting and linking them with other support offered by VCS partners and wider statutory and non-statutory partners. The post-holders will work closely with Living Well service colleagues, wider Public Health Team, Community partnerships, Neighbourhood teams, voluntary sector partners and wider council colleagues.
Public Health is part of a Health and Wellbeing Department that includes Adult Social Care and Environmental Health. Bradford Council is large unitary authority with an excellent reputation. The district provides an interesting and challenging environment for Public Health work, having a wide inequality in life expectancy and a legacy of strong partnership working across health, social care and VCS partners.
CONTACT DETAILS
For further information regarding this post please contact Mandy Lakes:Mandy.Lakes@bradford.gov.uk
DBS POST
An enhanced disclosure check with the Disclosure and Barring Service will be undertaken for this post.
IF SECONDMENT OPPORTUNITY
As this post is suitable for a secondment, interested applicants need to have secured the secondment agreement with their manager prior to the application.
The Code of Practice on the English language requirement for public sector workers, Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 requires that Councils ensure that all candidates applying for customer facing posts must be assessed in order to establish their fluency in English.
The criteria under special knowledge and experience on the job profile which is shown in this advert outlines what level of fluency you will be expected to demonstrate. Therefore, it is essential that you provide examples in your application.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion is at the heart of what we do as a Council and the people we support. We have a number of self-directed Staff Networks (Disability, LGBTQ+, Race Equality, Women’s Voice, Working Carers and Young Persons) which assist in providing a voice and support mechanism to colleagues but we are always looking to further our ambition and commitment to achieving and supporting an inclusive workforce. One such example is enabling more direct ways of support amongst staff through the RESPECT Allyship Programme.
The RESPECT Allyship Programme offers the opportunity to all staff to learn more about the diverse communities & groups and provides additional benefits and resources to its members. This is part of the RESPECT Campaign, which is the Council’s Internal Equalities Vision for staff and its ambition to build a truly inclusive workforce, where everyone can be their true selves at work and people are and feel represented across all levels in the organisation. An Ally is someone who will speak up for others and champion their corner when they need it most. As a Bradford employee we actively encourage employees to attend as many training events as possible hosted by the RESPECT programme on matters of EDI in order to support, champion & educate themselves and any colleague who may belong to a different group or community.
Closing Date: Monday 24th November 2025
Interview Date: Week commencing 8th December 2025 TBC - Bradford city centre, venue TBC
Job information webinar
We will be running an open job information webinar online for you to learn more about the post, working in the public health team at Bradford council and to answer any questions that you may have about the role or application process.
This will be held on Wed 12th November 12:30- 1:00 pm
To book onto this webinar please email: mandy.lakes@bradford.gov.uk
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