Creative Health Manager

This new role is an exciting opportunity to build relationships across the culture, arts and health sectors and build on existing culture and health activity. We want to create more opportunities for collaboration across these sectors and recognise the significant impact that culture and arts can have on improving the health and wellbeing.

Reporting to the Director of Skills, Volunteering & Wellbeing, you’ll lead our work to ensure that Bradford’s City of Culture Year directly benefits the health and wellbeing of the district’s population. You will also be led by a new Culture and Health Steering group so will receive support and guidance through the NHS Bradford and Craven Health and Care Partnership aligning to the ‘Act as One’ approach with the ambition of keeping people ‘Happy, Healthy and at Home’.

You will have strong knowledge and experience of how the arts, creativity and heritage can benefit physical, mental and community wellbeing, through social prescribing but also beyond, encompassing – for example – the role of the arts in hospitals, care settings, and child and adolescent mental health services. As well as establishing and managing an arts on prescription programme for the Bradford District, you will work with healthcare and cultural practitioners to develop a long-term community of practice and skills sharing.

You will also work with teams across Bradford 2025 and the wider district to ensure that health and wellbeing opportunities are maximised across wider work strands, including our volunteering, schools and artistic programme activities. If you have both a passion and demonstrable experience of devising work in social prescribing, the arts and health and/or related or adjacent fields (community mental health, physical activity, nature for wellbeing etc) we’d love to hear from you.