About Haringey
Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.
Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.
About the Role
Haringey is transforming its leisure service, reshaping it around a broader wellbeing offer and making significant upgrades to services and facilities. The service recently moved in-house and this is a rare opportunity to help shape a leisure service now it is back under direct council control. Haringey Council is engaging with its communities to ensure it develops inclusive, accessible services that meet the diverse needs of our residents.
The post holder is responsible for developing and promoting opportunities to increase physical activity in all our diverse communities, including the strategy development for physical activity, sport, and wellbeing.
This will include activities at our inhouse leisure centres, as well as maximising the use of other assets such as parks and greenspaces, community venues and partner services. This includes the development of commercial opportunities that generate income for the service.
As part of our broader Wellbeing Model, the post holder will work across council and leisure services, our partners (including NHS) and community services to get our residents active and reduce health inequalities across our communities.
Working for Haringey
At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community.
Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.
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About You
Haringey Council is looking for an experienced, passionate, and dynamic Healthy Communities Manager to join our Active Wellbeing team. You will have extensive experience within sports and physical activity development, community development, project delivery, and knowledge and experience of delivering successful physical activity interventions.
This role involves developing and implementing the Physical Activity and Sport Strategy for the borough, ensuring it aligns with the aspirations of residents and partners, as well as national and regional policies.
You will be responsible for managing the Active Wellbeing officers, working closely with Public Health, NHS, cross-council services, and the community/voluntary sector to create diverse opportunities for physical activity, sport, and wellbeing services.
The role also includes optimising income, developing commercial opportunities, and securing external funding to support improved sporting facilities and activity programmes.
The Healthy Communities Manager will lead core partnership activity programmes, collaborate with the Parks and Leisure Management team to reduce health inequalities, and develop inclusive activities that attract a broad range of residents. Promoting and marketing services to diverse communities, fostering a culture of excellence within the team, and ensuring excellent customer service are key aspects of the role. The manager will handle enquiries, feedback, and complaints, manage contracts of commissioned services, and oversee budget management to increase income or generate savings. This is an exciting opportunity to make a positive impact on the community through innovative and inclusive wellbeing programmes.
About the Team
You will join the Haringey Active Wellbeing team, reporting to the Programme Manager for Active Wellbeing. You will work alongside and collaboratively with the wider Active Wellbeing Team, Leisure Centre Operations Manager, frontline leisure teams and the council's community partners