About Us

At Family Action, we transform lives by providing practical, emotional, and financial support to those experiencing poverty, disadvantage, and social isolation.

Since 1869, we have been building stronger families, and today, we work with over 60,000 families across more than 150 community-based services. We also support thousands more through national programmes and grants, ensuring everyone has the tools to overcome challenges and thrive.

Our Change4Life Service is a holistic health promotion and community-based approach to improve the physical and emotional health and wellbeing of children and their families.

We are now looking for a Children’s Health Promotion Activity Co-ordinator to join Change4Life on a full-time, permanent basis, working 37 hours per week.

Please note, this role requires regular Saturday working and attending community events, partner meetings and site visits. There is flexibility to work from home and in the office to complete admin around activity club delivery.

The Benefits 

- Salary starting at £28,884 per annum, rising to £31,698 per annum
- Additional £3,866 Inner London Weighting per annum
- Annual paid leave entitlement of 30 working days, plus bank holidays
- Up to 6% matched pension contributions
- Flexible working arrangements and new starters have the right to make flexible working requests from day one of employment
- Enhanced paid sick leave and paid family leave provisions
- Eye care and winter flu jab vouchers
- Cycle to work scheme
- Investment in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities

This is a rewarding opportunity for an experienced children or youth worker with health promotion experience and a strong background in delivering engaging group activities for children and young people to join our compassionate organisation.

You’ll have the chance to make a real difference to children’s everyday lives, supporting them to feel more confident, more active and better equipped to make positive choices that can last well beyond the programme itself.

What’s more, alongside hybrid working, you’ll benefit from generous annual leave, a great pension scheme and strong support for your wellbeing and professional development.

So, if you’re ready to turn health education into positive, practical change for children and families, read on and apply today.

The Role 

As a Children’s Health Promotion Activity Co-ordinator, you will help children aged 5–11 and their families improve their health and wellbeing through engaging activities and practical support.

Planning and delivering interactive health promotion sessions, you will focus on healthy eating, physical activity and emotional wellbeing. 

You will lead five-week programmes, including after-school, Saturday and holiday clubs, helping children and families set achievable health goals.

Additionally, you will:

- Maintain attendance records and monitor participant outcomes
- Work with schools, youth organisations and community partners
- Gather feedback to support programme reporting
- Attend community events, partner meetings and site visits
- Follow safeguarding, health and safety and data protection procedures

About You

To be considered as a Children’s Health Promotion Activity Co-ordinator, you will need:

- Substantial experience delivering health promotion activity sessions or focused group work to support children and young people and their health and wellbeing
- Experience planning, delivering and evaluating fun and interactive group sessions for children and/or young people
- Experience working collaboratively with schools, youth organisations, and community partners
- Experience responding to safeguarding risks
- An understanding of health topics relevant to children and young people, including nutrition, physical activity and emotional wellbeing
- Good record-keeping skills and confidence using database systems
- To be educated to NVQ Level 3 or above in social work, health, or education and/or demonstrate experience working with children and young people and health and wellbeing promotion

The closing date for this role is Tuesday 13th November 2026 at 23.59.

Interviews are scheduled to take place w/c 16th and 23rd November in person, with slots throughout the working day and early/late slots available.

Other organisations may call this role Health and Wellbeing Co-ordinator, Health and Wellbeing Officer, Children's Wellbeing Co-ordinator, Children's Wellbeing Officer, Children's Health and Wellbeing Officer, or Children's Health and Wellbeing Co-ordinator.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process, and you will be asked whether you require any adjustments if shortlisted for interview. We also make reasonable adjustments on the job, where required. We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Intersectionality is important to us, and we particularly welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ candidates and disabled candidates because we are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action. We know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children, and strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support.

All candidates with a disability are welcome to apply under the Disability Confident Scheme and request priority consideration for an interview, provided they meet the essential criteria for the role.

To help remove financial barriers to working with us, we will reimburse reasonable travel costs if you are invited to attend an interview in person.

So, if you’re looking for a meaningful role as a Children’s Health Promotion Activity Co-ordinator, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.