Lead Member - Danny Fletcher

Lead member for Leisure and Public Health.

Main linked Directorate(s)

Reports to the Portfolio Holders for:

To support the delivery of the Progress with Unity missions and Council plan
To lead on the successful delivery of the borough’s ‘Be Well’ movement creating a borough where people are healthy, active, and happy through the integration of leisure and wellbeing services
To deliver the borough's ‘Creating Health’ Health and Wellbeing Strategy for 2024 – 2034, through improving the wider determinants of health in the borough supporting community health and wealth building.

Through leadership on the delivery of the 'Creating Health' Health and Wellbeing Strategy to:

Lead a movement, and culture, of wellbeing by building relationships with residents, as partners and the workforce
Leverage our assets for health and focus on the factors that determine health, and which we can influence locally
Focus our action to accelerate health improvement in communities to achieve equity of outcomes, opportunity and experience
Shift efforts and resources towards prevention through our partnership for health and wellbeing.

Through the Be Well movement for health and wellbeing to:

Fully embed the transition from traditional Leisure to Active Wellness
Develop a core model that includes both clinical and self-referral supporting people living with a wide range of physical health conditions
Expand the universal offer
Embed a strong customer focussed digital offer to support primary, secondary and tertiary care
Develop a fully integrated Community Health Improvement Service targeted at the top 20% most deprived, focussed on prevention
Ensure a whole person approach to Health Improvement
Launch the Be Well Pass
Re-open Norley Hall Adventure Playground
Offer place-based working solutions in our Be Well Centres
Demonstrate impact by developing a performance framework in partnership with Public Health
Continue to invest in our assets to provide the high-quality services that our residents expect and maximise the opportunity to deepen partnerships in pursuit of the transition to Active Wellness.