Public Health Principal Service Delivery
Team: Public Health
Job Family: CBG12 - Advising,
Salary: £43,920 - £48,872 per annum pro rata
Hours: 37 hours per week
Location: You will be expected to attend a CBC office location as often as needed to carry out your role, which will be no less than once per month.
Contract Type: Hybrid - Permanent
Closing Date: 6th April 2025
Interview Dates: TBC
About the Role:
Working on behalf of the Shared Public Health Service across Bedford Borough, Central Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes, the newly created role of Public Health Principal – Service Delivery will be responsible for planning, managing and leading the delivery of our new integrated behaviour change service, Choose You.
Working alongside the Public Health Principal – Quality & Strategy you will lead a team to deliver improved health outcomes for our residents, initially focusing on mobilisation and delivery of stop smoking and weight management services. If you have a passion for enhancing service delivery and the well-being of staff, partners and service users this is an excellent opportunity to use your skills and knowledge to help our residents make healthy lifestyle changes.
You will manage a team of Practitioners and Public Health Officers to provide residents with integrated support to adopt healthier behaviours to help improve their wellbeing.
Key Responsibilities will include:
- Provide leadership that delivers high quality services which will simplify and enhance residents’ experience of advice, guidance, and support, reducing the need for multiple referrals between services
- To improve outcomes / health & wellbeing of those engaging with services
- To address health inequalities across our 3 authorities – in relation to service access, user experience and outcomes
- To increase well-being, the training, development and engagement of the workforce to support the delivery of an effective service
- To be accountable for managing demand and capacity across service areas.
- To effectively identify, engage and build relationships with wider stakeholders to support the ongoing development and delivery of services
The responsibilities listed above are not intended to be exhaustive. The role holder is expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary.
Qualifications and Experience
We want to hear from you if you are committed to enhancing service delivery and the well-being of staff, partners and service users and have:
- A relevant degree (e.g. nutrition/dietetics/sports science/public health) or equivalent knowledge
- At least 2 years of leadership experience in public health or a related organisation
- Previous experience leading and co-ordinating all aspects of service delivery and experience in delivering weight management or stop smoking lifestyle change support
- Experience of managing effective and customer focussed services to improve outcomes for residents
- A passion for delivering excellent services
- Knowledge and experience of managing budgets
- Proven ability to successfully motivate and lead a team
- Understanding of health inequalities and experience working with diverse populations, including ethnic minorities and individuals from deprived areas
- Experience of working with a range of stakeholders, including service users to support the development of the service and drive improved outcomes for residents.
Our Offer
We have a number of rewards and benefits available to our staff, to view these please visit our Rewards and Benefits page
Our aspiration is to be a truly flexible employer. We welcome discussion on location, hours and working pattern as part of the application process.
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You will be expected to demonstrate how you meet the key accountabilities and competencies in this Recruitment Pack.
Our Competency Framework and Qualification Guidance are to be read in conjunction with our Recruitment Pack.
For an informal discussion about this position, please contact: Martin Westerby at martin.westerby@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk or call 0300 300 4615
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