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 isthe norm for us as an organisationwhich means typically one day a week is in the office (Monday) with the restof the weekworking remotely from home, within the community or with partner organisations.This rolewillinvolveregular travel across the County.
Salary:
Part time-15 hours per week
£26,000 - £29,000 (FTE) - depending onexperience
Contract:
Fixed Term to31stMarch 2027
A secondment arrangement will also be considered
Benefits:
Further information:
Please visitwww.activeoxfordshire.org
For an informal discussion about the role please contact Richard Claydonrichardclaydon@activeoxfordshire.org.
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 clearlydemonstratewhat you bring to the role in line with thepersonspecification criteria (see table below).
The closing date isFriday 16thJanuary 2026.
By applying for this role, you arestatingthat you are eligible to
workin the UK. Active Oxfordshire is unable to apply for a
Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.
Interview Date
Weekcommencing26thJanuary 2026.
The selection event for this post willcomprisean interview and a presentation.
The presentationshould answer the question"Whatbenefitswill aplace-basedapproachbringtothePACCprogramme?Wewould beparticularlyinterested in your thoughts on local context andhow PACCmay address local health inequalities.Presentations shouldlast for no more than 10 minutes and willbe followed by questions from thepanel.
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 HealthcareProfessionals 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 bya number ofdifferent 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 durationoftheproject,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 anddeterminepriority 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, whereappropriate, 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 todemonstratevalue 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 toidentifytraining 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 andwork 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 ofevidence-basedinterventions 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.
- Supportappropriate engagementin 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 ensuringtimelycompletion of forms for each training session.
- Travel as required and reasonable.
