Active Wellbeing Lead

Salary: 24131 - 26268 Per Annum

Active Wellbeing Lead

About us:

Gower College Swansea is one of the largest colleges in Wales with a strong reputation for high quality teaching and learning. We have six campuses across the city with over 4,500 full time learners and 10,000 part time learners. We currently have a turnover of over £50 million making us a major employer in the region with approximately 1,000 staff.

At Gower College Swansea we are passionate about investing in our staff and looking after their wellbeing to ensure they feel supported in work and also at home.

The role:

To support the development and delivery of a broad range of easily accessible, high quality opportunities for students, to encourage physical activity and enhance healthy lifestyle behaviours.

• Full time (37 hours per week)
• Permanent
• £24,131 - £26,268 per annum
• Cross campus

Key Responsibilities:

• To be responsible for the implementation and operation of GCS Active and LiveWell programmes within the college.
• Working with faculties and services across campus to provide targeted and appropriate active wellbeing interventions for students;
• To co-ordinate a timetable of active wellbeing sessions to be delivered by coaches and other relevant deliverers within the activities programme across the whole college community

About you:

• 5 GCSE passes (grades A-C) including Maths and English or equivalent
• Relevant Active Wellbeing or Sport/PE degree, or relative experience in these sectors
• Experience of working on active wellbeing projects and events
• Ability to plan and prioritise tasks effectively and meet deadlines.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Benefits for you:

• 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, and the college is closed for two weeks over the Christmas period
• A Local Government Pension Scheme with an average employer contribution of 21% (2023)
• 2 staff well-being days
• Discounted study opportunities on College programmes
• View more benefits here: https://www.gcs.ac.uk/recruitment/staff-benefits-wellbeing

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We welcome applications from individuals regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented within our organisation.

If you wish to continue your application journey using Welsh Language, please visit our Cymraeg site. We encourage Welsh Language applications as we recognise the importance of delivering services in Welsh, and the need to grow our bilingual workforce.

Gower College Swansea is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check and require registration with the Education Workforce Council for Wales.

Please note that we are expecting a high volume of applicants for this vacancy. If we do, we may close the post before the specified date, therefore an early application is recommended.

Appointments will normally be made to the bottom of the salary scale with annual increments on 1st August each year (subject to a start date before 1st February).