Place-Based Physical Activity Clinical Champion (PACC)

NHS; Kidlington; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A community health charity in Oxfordshire seeks a Place-Based Physical Activity Clinical Champion to lead training for NHS professionals on the prevention and management of long-term conditions through physical activity. The role involves building local collaborations and delivering effective training programs, focusing on health inequalities. This is a part-time position with flexible work options and generous holiday allowances. The candidate will play a significant role in enhancing community health outcomes.

Benefits

Generous holiday of 38 days pro rata per annum

Employee Support and Wellbeing Programme

Cycle to work scheme

Learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in clinical settings and good decision-making skills.
• Evidence of leadership and education programme development.
• Knowledge of healthcare systems and health improvement programmes.

Responsibilities

• Organise and deliver clinician training on physical activity management.
• Build relationships with local stakeholders and healthcare professionals.
• Evaluate the training programme and report effectiveness.

Skills

Clinical decision-making skills

Leadership and management

Networking and relationship building

Presentation skills

Understanding of health inequalities

Education

Degree or equivalent

Practice Teacher Qualification

Tools

MS Teams

SharePoint

Job description

Place-Based Physical Activity Clinical Champion (PACC)

This is an exciting opportunity to join Active Oxfordshire and to work as part of a Sport England project evaluating a place-based approach to the highly valued national training programme. This is a key programme that supports achieving Active Oxfordshires strategic priorities and is a fantastic opportunity to lead and drive forward delivery and development of the PACC programme.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for organising and delivering clinician to clinician training on Physical Activity for the Management and Prevention of Long-Term Conditions to other NHS health care professionals.

You will work closely with both Active Oxfordshire and the central PACC team, make use of their own networks and build relationships with local and regional stakeholders and organisations, developing a local online community of practice and encourage healthcare professionals in Oxfordshire to continue to develop their knowledge and skills.

About us

We are a registered charity (1179040) and part of a network of 43 Active Partnerships. We work alongside partners and local communities to break down barriers to physical activity. Through our various programmes and partnerships, more children and young people in the county can learn to swim, ride a bike and enjoy being active together with their families. Our flagship activity programmes, which include a programme for families on lower incomes and a programme for adults with long-term health conditions, now reach more than 17,000 residents each year. Supporting Oxfordshire residents in most need to be more active is helping to prevent and manage health conditions, improve mental health and well-being and connect communities. Our work changes lives every day, and this role is an exciting opportunity to further our impact in areas of highest priority.

Our purpose at Active Oxfordshire is to empower communities, unify partners and challenge Oxfordshires extreme health inequalities, with the overall outcome of significantly increasing activity levels to transform health and wellbeing. We do this by working with local partners across multiple sectors.

This position is an exciting opportunity to join a fearless and passionate team, who are working together with partners to make a significant difference to health and wellbeing in Oxfordshire.

Job responsibilities

Job Description

Line manager:

Richard Claydon, Head of Strategic Health Partnerships

Place of work:

Active Oxfordshires offices are in Kidlington, OX5 2DN and will be your main place of work. Hybrid working is the norm for us as an organisation which means typically one day a week is in the office (Monday) with the rest of the week working remotely from home, within the community or with partner organisations. This role will involve regular travel across the County.

Part time-15 hours per week

Contract:

Fixed Term to 31st March 2027

A secondment arrangement will also be considered

Generous holiday of 38 days pro rata per annum (including bank holidays)

New bespoke Employee Support and Wellbeing Programme

Learning, development and training opportunities for all staff

Cycle to work scheme

Further information:

Please visit www.activeoxfordshire.org

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Richard Claydon [e-mail].

How to apply:

Please visit: https://activeoxfordshire.livevacancies.co.uk/ You will be asked to provide a CV (2 pages or less) and cover letter (2 pages max. font >10) to your application. Your cover letter should clearly demonstrate what you bring to the role in line with the person specification criteria (see table below).

The closing date is Friday 16th January 2026.

By applying for this role, you are stating that you are eligible to work in the UK. Active Oxfordshire is unable to apply for a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.

Interview Date week commencing 26th January 2026.

The selection event for this post will comprise an interview and a presentation.

The presentation should answer the question "What benefits will a place-based approach bring to the PACC programme? We would be particularly interested in your thoughts on local context and how PACC may address local health inequalities. Presentations should last for no more than 10 minutes and will be followed by questions from the panel.

Purpose of the role

The role of the place-based Physical Activity Clinical Champion (PACC) is to organise and deliver clinician to clinician training on Physical Activity for the Management and Prevention of Long-Term Conditions to other NHS health care professionals. Supported by a national team and infrastructure, this is an exciting opportunity to work as part of a Sport England project evaluating a place-based approach to the highly valued national training programme.

The place based PACC will work closely with both Active Oxfordshire and the central PACC team, make use of their own networks and build relationships with local and regional stakeholders and organisations, developing a local online community of practice and encourage healthcare professionals in Oxfordshire to continue to develop their knowledge and skills.

PACC

Physical Activity Clinical Champions is an initiative that offers free clinician to clinician training to people working in healthcare, which supports them to improve patient care and outcomes.

PACC training was initially developed as part of the Moving Healthcare Professionals Programme, run by Sport England and Public Health England (now OHID). In June 2023, a consortium consisting of The Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre, Sheffield, Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine UK and Intelligent Health began a transition phase to take over the support and running of the programme to enable a sustainable ongoing platform for the future. For more information about the PACC programme visit - https://movingmedicine.ac.uk/pacc/

The PACC programme provides free face to face (online or in person) training to people working in healthcare, and this is delivered nationwide by a number of different physical activity champions. The new model which is currently in development aims to provide this training, whilst also developing resources and training in places throughout the UK.

The Place-Based PACC will be employed for 2 days per week for the duration of the project, and we will be able to work flexibly around availability and clinical commitments. If the best candidate for the role is currently working in a regional NHS organisation, we will actively support a secondment arrangement for the duration of the project wherever possible.

Key responsibilities

• To deliver physical activity clinical champions educational training and resources for community and patient facing healthcare roles across the county.
• To work across the multi-disciplinary, multi-professional healthcare sector in Oxfordshire to improve awareness of physical activity in the prevention and treatment of long-term conditions.
• To build relationships and engage with local networks, including healthcare and community providers, to explore opportunities for collaboration, promote the role of physical activity and promote training for relevant workforces.
• To work closely with Active Oxfordshire to gain local intelligence and insight across the team to inform decision making and determine priority areas to target, including working closely with Comms & Engagement team to develop relevant messages and marketing material.
• To develop a local online community of practice with necessary small group forums to encourage sharing of ideas, learning and knowledge using Moving Medicine community of practice infrastructure.
• To encourage healthcare professionals in Oxfordshire to continue to develop their knowledge and skills and, where appropriate, encourage others to deliver education using PACC and other MHPP resources.
• To promote local physical activity signposting through referrals into the Move Together physical activity pathway and capture insight and learning to shape delivery of the pathway.
• To evaluate delivery of the PACC training to demonstrate value and effectiveness and provide data to feedback to our commissioners.

As a clinical champion the Place-based PACC will:

• Link with training leads in NHS trusts to identify training opportunities with their respective health professional cohorts and deliver a standard training package (which you will be trained to deliver) to groups of NHS HCPs in hospitals or in the community / primary care setting.
• Provide clinical leadership to the expansion of the PACC programme within Oxfordshire and work strategically with Active Oxfordshire to support effective delivery of the local Move Together physical activity pathway.
• Engage with and promote collaborative partnerships and projects designed to support implementation of evidence-based interventions to reduce inactivity and promote physical activity across the life course at health-enhancing levels at national, regional, and local levels.
• Strengthen local capacity and leadership for physical activity by supporting the development of, and delivering, training and capacity building across the health system.
• Help to develop and support the national PACC programme advocating at local, and where applicable, National events as required and able.
• Recognise the complexity of enabling people to get physically active; that wider determinants of health affect people differently; and that work of PACCs should contribute towards reducing health inequalities.
• Engage with PACC infrastructure (governance groups, stakeholder engagement, academic partnerships, networks, strategy, planning and guidance) and use this insight to enable clinicians and clinical networks to deliver coherent evidence-based information relating to physical activity to patients, and practical interventions in their everyday practice.
• Support appropriate engagement in physical activity across the life course across professional boundaries and the whole health and social care economy.
• Support the evaluation of the programme by collecting data and ensuring timely completion of forms for each training session.
• Travel as required and reasonable.

Person Specification

Experience

• - Experience of working in a range of clinical settings and demonstrates good clinical decision-making skills.
• - Experience of developing staff development and education programmes
• - Experience of working with staff across a range of disciplines and levels
• - Experience of formal classroom and clinical based teaching
• - Knowledge of health care system
• - Understanding of health improvement programmes and their implementation
• - Proven knowledge of role of physical activity as a tool for primary and secondary prevention, and management of long-term conditions.
• - Understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
• - Evidence of leadership/management development
• - Member of relevant professional body
• - Evidence of continuing personal development
• - Knowledge of principles and practice of public health including health needs assessment and evidence-based strategies to address health inequalities
• - Exceptional online teaching and presentation skills, able to engage an audience and deliver information in an interesting way.
• - Must be able to prioritise own work effectively.
• - Must be an effective organiser, influencer and networker. Must be willing to build relationships and engage with new stakeholders in order to actively promote and organise sessions when needed.
• - Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations to Sponsor/Manager, with the aim of improving deliverables.
• - Confident using IT systems, in particular MS Teams and SharePoint, and willing to adapt to new software if and when needed.
• - An understanding of and experience of working within the places geographical location
• - An understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships.
• - Understanding of Motivational Interviewing techniques

Qualifications

• - Degree-educated or equivalent
• - Practice Teacher Qualification or relevant teaching experience within a clinical area.

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.

Part-time,Flexible working,Home or remote working