Activity and Wellbeing Coordinator
The closing date is 14 June 2026
We have an opportunity for a part time advanced Activity and Wellbeing Coordinator to join our team delivering on our Staff exercise referral programme. The role would be required to work across all trust sites.
The role will have responsibility for the promotion and management of our staff exercise referral programme. You will be delivering tailored, one-to-one movement and wellbeing interventions to staff identified as inactive or at risk of ill health. The role involves conducting initial assessments, designing personalised activity and rehabilitation plans, and supporting individuals to improve physical activity, lifestyle behaviours, and overall wellbeing. The role will work closely with multidisciplinary teams, including Occupational Health, Physiotherapy and Staff Psychology, to ensure coordinated care, while also contributing to health checks, behaviour change support and ongoing monitoring of participant progress to promote long‑term self‑management.
Job responsibilities
- Oversight of the staff gym facilities, including the overall day‑to‑day running of the gym suites, and ensuring all processes, policies and procedures, including in relation to the management of Service Level Agreements, Health and Safety and HR are followed.
- Give expert advice to staff referred from the Northumbria Safe, Fit & Well programme with a complex medical history or barriers to physical activity.
- Deliver the MECC agenda and offer expert advice on exercise, nutrition and healthy lifestyles, signing post to relevant external services.
- Actively create, promote and sell activity and wellbeing services to the staff community within hospital wellness facilities that raise the profile of and demonstrate its value to the staff community.
- Deliver an activity and wellbeing plan which incorporates a range of opportunities for staff to engage in wellbeing related activities within the gym and wellness facilities.
- Utilise facilities and develop a comprehensive offer of fitness classes aimed at engaging Northumbria Wellbeing staff members (live and remote).
- Manage wellbeing staff working within the hospital gym suites and wellbeing areas (indoors and outdoors), establishing weekly working rots, processes for working and supporting performance management and development processes including appraisals.
- Encourage and support staff development opportunities for wellbeing staff that are relevant to the needs of the staff community through regular meetings that cover the targets set in individual appraisals.
About us
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state‑of‑the‑art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Qualifications
- A qualification at degree level in a health‑related subject
- First Aid Qualification
- Certificate/Professional qualification in a related area e.g. Exercise referral
- Certificate/Professional qualification in a related area e.g. Nutrition, Obesity and weight management
- Mental Health First Aid
- Registration with a professional body e.g. CIMSPA
Other Requirements
- It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes
Experience
- Substantial experience of working in a gym environment and delivering a variety of fitness/wellbeing groups and classes.
- Substantial experience of working with individuals within a multidisciplinary team, setting realistic goals and developing physical activity plans to suit their individual needs
- Substantial experience of developing general health promotion activities.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Address
Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital
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