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Active Partners Trust; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Active Partners Trust is recruiting a Health Lead for the Derby Place Partnership to embed physical activity in health inequalities work and influence strategy and policy across health partners and communities in Derby.

The role focuses on collaboration with local councils, NHS Derby & Derbyshire ICB, VCSE and other partners, promoting joined-up approaches and delivering action-informed by community insights and evaluation. Contract, on-site, with salary from £38,300 a year (pro rata).

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Active Partners Trust, Derby City Council and NHS Derby & Derbyshire Integrated Care Board to achieve the overall objectives of the Sport England Place Partnership work.
• Promote place partnership work and raise awareness of physical activity initiatives within Derby, identifying opportunities for better connectivity and collaboration across health and social care.
• Understand existing community insight and lived experience, and translate this to inform action with health colleagues.
• Grow collaboration by supporting Programme Lead and health partners to develop guiding principles for joint work.
• Identify strengths and opportunities for physical activity and health inequalities work to align with local strategic priorities.

Job description

As one of 42 Active Partnerships (APs) across England, Active Partners Trust, working in Derbyshire and Notts, teams up with local councils, community groups, businesses, healthcare organisations, charities, schools and more to find out what's needed. That means asking questions, making suggestions, sharing our knowledge, finding the right partners, and spotting opportunities, all to make movement part of everyday life. Because when we all work together, we can better understand, reach, and support the people who need it most.

Making our Move – Uniting the Movement in Notts and Derbyshire is a plan that guides our and partners’ work towards our shared vision ‘Together we will address inequality and empower everyone to be active in a way that works for them’

Making Our Move sets out the need for a collective response based on an in-depth understanding of people and communities, that builds a consistent message and way of working, removes the barriers to participation, builds capacity from within and makes physical activity the norm for people who live and work in our communities. We need to see change at all levels and across many sectors.

To do this, we need the best team, with the right attitude, work ethic, behaviours and commitment to make this happen. You’ll need to be able to identify with our core values and behaviours that define us as an organisation – they are who we are and what we stand for. Our values: Make a Difference. Integrity. Collaborate. Inclusive. Passionate.

Health and Communities Lead (Derby Place Partnership)

As part of wider Place Partnership work in Derby, this role will work closely with a range of health partners and community organisations. The focus will be on embedding physical activity into health inequalities work and influencing health strategy and policy.

To find out more about the Derby Place Partnership work, click here Derby Place Partnership

Derby Place Partnership Health Lead will have the following areas of responsibility:

Work closely with Active Partners Trust, Derby City Council, NHS Derby & Derbyshire Integrated Care Board, Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprises (VCSE) organisations to achieve the overall objectives of the Sport England Place Partnership work.

Promote and raise awareness of physical activity place partnership work in Derby, identify and facilitate areas for improved connectivity, integration and collective action within health and social care environment.

Understanding and insight - informed by people and communities

Understand existing community insight (lived experience and resident voice). Work with health colleagues to collate, analyse and translate this to inform action.

Work with Derby Health Inequalities' Partnership (DHIP), VCSE, health partners and communities to identify opportunities to align community insight and resources across partners to inform action.

Explore connections between physical activity place partnership work and specific condition work, such as long term health conditions, musculoskeletal, chronic respiratory conditions, cardiovascular diseases and identify future priorities for the work.

Grow Collaboration

Support the Derby Place Partnership Programme Lead and health partners to develop a set of principles for how we will work together.

Work with health partners in Derby to identify strengths and scope strategic opportunities for physical activity and health inequalities work and develop a shared view on how physical activity can better contribute to the Joined up Care Derbyshire 3 strategic priorities of Start Well, Stay Well and Age Well.

Leadership and workforce development

Support the development of a workforce development plan that complements the Sport England Leadership programme, identifying priorities to support place-based work.

Learning and evaluation

Further develop and strengthen the data set within Moving Communities in Derby, using ongoing learning to drive continuous improvement across all workstreams. Contribute to a learning culture: capturing learning, adapt delivery based on evidence and feedback and share insight.

Support implementing the local evaluation and learning framework that aligns to the Theory of Change. Use the findings from the system maturity self-assessment and the latest community insight to strengthen learning loops and ensure evaluation continues to inform action in a timely way across the system.

Develop joint communications to share insight, knowledge, and learning about place work

Governance, management and reporting

Contribute to reports for the Integrated Care Board, Derby City Health & Wellbeing Board, as well as coordinating and liaising with the leadership group of partners and to the Active Partners Trust Board.

Ensure a commitment to Safeguarding and Equity and Diversity through all work internally and externally.

Work with colleagues to plan for the next phase of work beyond March 2028. Ensure this is based on a good understanding of the lived experience of communities and the systemic barriers to physical activity that exist.

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Derby Place Partnership Health Lead

Company: Active Partners Trust Salary: from £38,300 a year, pro rata Hours: Full-time Location: DE1 2FS Working pattern: On-site Job type: Contract Posting date: 12 Oct 2026 Closing date: 16 Oct 2026

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