Health and Wellbeing Manager

The Quays Swimming & Diving Complex

Southampton•£31,165 per annum •Full time

Post Title: Health and Wellbeing Manager

Site Location: BH Live Active Sites – Southampton

Salary: £31,165 per annum

Hours: 40 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent


The role:


An opportunity has arisen for a Health and Wellbeing Manager to join our team at BH Live. You will deliver our Health & Wellbeing programme across our Southampton sites.


BH Live operates leisure facilities across this vibrant and lively port city in partnership with Southampton City Council. In line with the council’s ‘We Can Be Active’ strategy, we provide excellent leisure facilities and hundreds of activities for all ages and abilities to inspire and support more communities to be active.

BH Live Active centres include The Quays Swimming and Diving Complex, Bitterne Leisure Centre, Chamberlayne Leisure Centre and Southampton Outdoor Sports Centre.



You will:


· To manage, promote, coordinate and organise the delivery of the Health & Wellbeing programme across Southampton.

· Identify business development/funding opportunities that support BH Live strategic/business plan objectives.

· Performance reporting to our partners and stakeholders.

· Support all sites to deliver a structured exercise referral programme within their contract. Work closely alongside third parties to set up and maintain pathways of referral into exercise sessions working on maintaining and creating new initiatives.

· Monitor participation numbers, completers, retention and revenue of each contracts exercise referral scheme.


You will need:


· Good organisational skills

· An exercise referral qualification – minimum of Level 3.

· Experience of managing/supervising a team.

· Previous experience of managing/supervising a team

· Practical experience of instructing groups.


Please click here to view the full job description.


Due to the nature of our business hours of work may include weekends, bank holidays and evenings.


BH Live is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults. Rigorous checks will be made of the successful applicant’s background credentials, including referencing and an enhanced DBS check.


We offer:


· Onsite parking

· Training and development opportunities

· BH Live Active - Gym membership

· Health cash plan

· Employee Assistance Programme

· Company pension matched up to 6% contributions

· Colleague discount on food and drink

· Colleague recognition

· Birthday / Celebratory day off

· Loyalty Rewards


About BH Live:


We are one of the UK’s leading leisure and event venue operators – a registered charity and social enterprise.


Our geographical reach spans across multiple venues, leisure centres and attractions across Portsmouth, Southampton, Croydon and the BCP region with millions of visits per year.


Our organisational and charitable purpose is to generate:


· More participation – through the provision of leisure facilities to encourage active communities, improved health, and wellbeing

· Higher audiences – through the provision of a diverse range of cultural and artistic events that appeal to a wide audience

· Greater economic and social benefit – through hosting major conferences, exhibitions, and events for the benefit of the local, regional, and international economies and people



We are making a positive difference across the communities we serve.


Our organisation is changing lives – placing us at the heart of the UK’s growing social economy. We host hundreds of events a year; sell more than half a million cultural, and entertainment tickets; clock up millions of leisure centre visits, and welcome thousands of conference and exhibition delegates. As well as promoting community health and wellbeing, this generates millions of pounds in economic benefit for the local economy through business and cultural tourism.

As a social enterprise, we don’t pay dividends to shareholders. Every pound we make is used to run our business and generate a surplus to reinvest and enhance our centres and facilities for public benefit.


We’re BH Live, and we make things happen.



To apply:



Please see the job description for more details on this role.


All applications are to be made via the BH Live Careers site, by clicking apply or smart apply.


BH Live reserves the right to close the vacancy early should sufficient applications be received. We therefore highly recommend that you submit your application as soon as possible.