Community Wellbeing Apprentice

North Hertfordshire District Council; Letchworth; Hybrid; GBP 15,000 - 21,000; Full time

Job summary

North Hertfordshire District Council is offering an entry-level role in the Community Wellbeing Team. You will work towards a Level 3 Apprenticeship in Business Administration while helping to deliver programmes that promote physical activity, emotional wellbeing and food education.

This position supports communications and bookings, and involves working across busy community settings with flexible hybrid working and face-to-face interviews on 1st October 2026. Applicants must live in the UK.

Qualifications

• Entry-level applicant working towards Level 3 Business Admin apprenticeship.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate with a range of audiences.
• Willingness to work in busy community settings and pay attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Support the team delivering health and wellbeing interventions.
• Assist with communications, marketing, bookings systems, and social media.
• Provide admin support and help coordinate events in local communities.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Team player

Communication

Public engagement

Education

Level 3 Apprenticeship in Business Administration

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen at North Herts Council for an entry-level position within the Community Wellbeing Team supporting programmes that enable our local communities to improve or maintain their health and wellbeing. Whilst working towards a Level 3 apprenticeship in Business Administration, you’ll gain experience assisting the team with interventions that encourage physical activity, emotional wellbeing and food education.

The Experience you will bring

You will need good interpersonal skills as well as being flexible, a team player, confident and able to converse with a range of people, including council colleagues and other professional partners and members of the public. You will want to work in busy and varied community settings and be hands on. You will also have excellent attention to detail to be able to support our communications, marketing, bookings systems, social media channels and website.

Please note, the successful applicant for the above post will be background checked with the Disclosure and Barring Service.

North Hertfordshire is a large rural district with approximately 125,000 residents with four historic towns, Hitchin, Baldock, Royston and Letchworth Garden City. The Council have four priorities: Thriving Communities, Accessible Services, Responsible Growth and Sustainability. The Council Plan sets out our key priorities and themes for the next five years. The North Herts Values define how we as colleagues work with each other, and we strive to be: Adaptable, Inclusive, Learning, Listening, Together .

We are committed to promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion in our recruitment practices and in our employment policies . We want our employees to feel safe to express themselves and we encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds with a wide range of talents . We are dedicated to promoting a healthy work/life balance, valuing our employees, and enabling them to make a difference to the local community.

At North Herts Council we are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and we guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum requirements for the job .

Please note that all our vacancies require you to live and work in the UK, and selection interviews are face to face in our Letchworth offices or other nearby council sites.

We are changing

North Herts Council (NHC) is undergoing Local Government Reorganisation (LGR). If you are employed by NHC on 1 April 2028, it is expected that the majority of roles will transfer to the newly-created unitary councils on existing terms and conditions under TUPE (Transfer of Undertakings – Protection of Employment) principles.

LGR is one of the biggest changes in local government we will face in a generation. It will reshape how we work and how services are organised and gives us a real opportunity to build something better.

Hybrid working

Flexibility with homeworking and office-based days

Working pattern

This job is open to flexible working patterns and working hours

Face to face interviews will be held on Thursday 1st October 2026.

Please note that we are currently unable to provide sponsorship for employment in the UK.

We recommend downloading the job profile document as this will not be available once the vacancy closes.

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