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Creative Health Development Officer
Croydon Council is delivering a new programme of creative health development to support our residents improve their wellbeing through arts, heritage and physical activity participation.
These new posts will be key to delivering this work through a combination of direct activity delivery, managing grants and commissioned partners and working with our cultural, health and community sector to promote opportunities.
We are looking for someone with experience of working within cultural diverse communities to deliver programmes of activity, good partnership and collaboration skills and a passion for creative health and community development.
You will join a friendly, dynamic team at an exciting time as we embed the learning and legacy of our year as the London Borough of Culture, developing new partnerships with the cultural and community sector.
This programme will enable us to test new approaches to creative wellbeing and to bring a step change with arts and leisure participation in Croydon.
There are two full time, fixed term posts to March 2026. We envisage one will focus mostly on physical activity and wellbeing and one will focus mostly on arts and mental wellbeing.
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Full time, fixed term posts to March 2026
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Closing date 5 June 2024 11:59pm
Equal Opportunities and Safeguarding 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