Healthy Behaviours Community Coordinator

Eastern Education Group Trust, Bury St. Edmunds, IP33 3RL

8 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  17 November 2026 at 8am

• Date listed

  9 November 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 37 hours per week, 52 weeks per year - Fixed Term until September 2028
• Contract type: Fixed term - Fixed Term until September 2028
• Full time equivalent salary: £26,703 per annum - £29,058 per annum (Dependent on qualifications and experience)

What skills and experience we're looking for

• West Suffolk College (Built Environment Campus), Bury St Edmunds - With travel across all sites*
• 37 hours per week, 52 weeks per year - Fixed Term until September 2028
• Salary: £26,703 per annum - £29,058 per annum (Dependent on qualifications and experience)

As a Healthy Behaviours Community Coordinator, you will help children, young people and families across West Suffolk lead healthier lives and make a meaningful difference to local communities. Working in partnership with schools, communities and health organisations, you will deliver engaging programmes that promote physical activity, healthy eating, wellbeing and positive healthy behaviours.

You will play a key role in delivering the Bitewise Programme and supporting the Healthy Active Schools Award, helping schools create healthier environments and encouraging positive lifestyle choices. Working closely with schools, Active Lakenheath, Eastern Education Group, Norfolk and Suffolk ICB, Integrated Neighbourhood Teams and other community partners, you will build strong local partnerships to coordinate and enhance health and wellbeing initiatives across the region.

The role combines programme delivery, community engagement and partnership working, with a focus on reducing health inequalities and improving health outcomes. You will coordinate activity across the Lakenheath locality and wider West Suffolk priority areas, engage children, young people and families in a range of health and wellbeing programmes, support access to services, deliver workshops, and help evaluate and report on outcomes to demonstrate the impact of interventions and drive continuous improvement.

*Travel between sites is required; therefore, access to your own transport would be highly desirable.

What the school offers its staff

• Membership into Local Government Pension Scheme
• Family friendly policies and flexible working
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee wellbeing initiatives
• Free parking
• Canteen
• Company events
• Access to various memberships and discount schemes
• Learning and development opportunities, including staff development days
• Funded subject course development for your role
• Range of staff communities, including EDI and neurodiverse communities
• Career progression opportunities

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

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CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Eastern Education Group Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Email address: recruitment@easterneducationgroup.ac.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/suffolk-academies-trust

Arranging a visit to Eastern Education Group Trust

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@easterneducationgroup.ac.uk.

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