Health Walk Coordinator

This is an exciting opportunity to join the TCV Sussex team to expand and develop our Health
Walks offer as part of our new Green Gateways social prescribing project.

The successful candidate is likely to have previous experience of managing volunteers,
delivering training and have knowledge of social prescribing or public health. 

East Sussex Health Walks is a long running county-wide scheme of weekly one hour walks led by
trained community volunteers. Last year we had nearly 20,000 walking engagements and we want to
build on this. This post is for a Senior Project Officer to coordinate and develop the
programme to help even more people to improve their health and wellbeing with regular,
manageable exercise. 

You will be coordinating the existing programme of Health Walks (approximately 25 per week) and
managing the large group of Volunteer Health Walk Leaders (currently about 100). You will be
responsible for recruiting and training new volunteers and developing new Health Walks to meet
the funder’s targets, including liaising with local partners, mapping, risk assessing and
planning. 

There will be ongoing marketing and publicity needs, as well as regular internal comms with
volunteers to make sure they feel supported and valued and to reinforce and role model TCV best
practise for safe, inclusive and supportive activities. 

You will also be responsible for general project running tasks such as purchasing, scheme
admin, report writing, attending events, liaising with funders & partners, meeting targets
and deadlines. 

Experience required/desirable:

• Managing, supporting & recruiting volunteers
• Delivering training
• Health & wellbeing projects / public health / social prescribing

The post is currently funded until August 2025. It is full-time (35 hours per week) and based
in the TCV office in Hastings but covers the whole county. TCV supports a flexible approach to
determining the days and hours worked and we are open to discussions about hybrid working. The
role may include occasional weekend and evening work.

We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the
recruitment process, and you will be asked whether you require any during your application. If
you would like to discuss your requirements further please contact the People Team via
[email protected] or by telephone on 01302 388883. We also offer reasonable adjustments on
the job.

A full, clean or near clean UK driving licence is required for this post, which has
been held for a minimum of one year.

Closing date for completed applications is 9am 20/05/2024