Creative Health Development Officer

Salary range: Grade 9 £42,060 - £43,680 p.a. plus fantastic benefits
Contract:  Fixed Term /Secondment (until September 2027)
Hours of work: 36 hours also 28.8 hours per week considered 
Location: Croydon

About the Creative Health Programme

Working closely with Croydon’s Public Health team, the Creative Health team supports local artists and community organisations to expand delivery of arts and creative activities that support health and wellbeing through four main strands:

• Creative Health Network – providing networking opportunities, free training, fundraising support and strategic oversight to 170+ individuals and organisations interested in Creative Health in Croydon
• Community Grants – delivering grant schemes to provide seed-funding to support local Creative Health events and projects
• Targeted Interventions – managing the development of new Creative Health interventions tackling complex local priorities with cross-sector stakeholders
• Advocating for the Sector – linking with Health, Social Care and other partners to increase support, uptake and alignment of Creative Health initiatives with the broadest range of stakeholders

About the Role

Reporting to the Creative Health Programme Manager, this is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and inspirational individual to provide maternity cover for the programme’s Development Officer role. This role contributes to all strands of the Programme, with a particular focus on supporting the co-development of Targeted Interventions to meet local priorities, assessing and supporting community grant schemes and engaging with local partners to ensure high quality creative health work is available to all residents. 

Find out more about the work of Croydon’s Creative Health Programme by visiting https://www.culturecroydon.com/home/creative-health-croydon/ 

Interviews are expected to take place on Friday, 18th September.