Healthy Lifestyles Programme Lead

ABL Health ltd.; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

ABL Health delivers the Healthy Lifestyle service in Gloucestershire, working with Gloucestershire County Council to support weight loss, smoking cessation, reduced alcohol harm, increased activity and wellbeing.

The role provides leadership to improve clinical and operational excellence, building alliances with communities and care settings, and managing staff across Gloucestershire.

Qualifications

• Senior leader with experience delivering healthy lifestyle services.
• Experience in project management using tools to set goals, schedule, track progress.
• Experience evolving services within a complex health system.
• Positive, proactive leader who motivates and supports teams to achieve high standards.
• Strategic thinker able to foresee issues and opportunities.
• Adept communicator for clients, staff, volunteers and partner agencies.
• Results oriented with focus on quantitative goals.
• Knowledge of smoking cessation or weight management.
• Ability to build relationships and foster trust among colleagues and stakeholders.
• Quality driven; open to new ideas and perspectives.

Responsibilities

• Lead clinical and operational excellence of the service in Gloucestershire.
• Build relationships and partnerships with community, secondary care and primary care.
• Support specialist advisors to deliver outcomes for clients referred to the service.
• Responsible for line management of staff across Gloucestershire.

Skills

Senior leadership

Project management

Healthcare integration

Team leadership

Strategic thinking

Communication

Performance targets

Health practice knowledge

Stakeholder relations

Job description

ABL Health deliver the Healthy Lifestyle service in Gloucestershire, commissioned by Gloucestershire County Council . This transformative service works collaboratively with communities to transform the lives of the local population. The service supports residents to help them lose weight, stop smoking, reduce alcohol consumption, get more active and improve their wellbeing – all embedded in sustainable behaviour change. The service also deliver the Healthy Beginnings programme supporting families with healthy lifestyles through pregnancy to child’s second birthday, as well as the Healthy Workplace award scheme and the Tobacco Dependency Outreach Service.

Role Purpose:

This is a leadership role where the post holder will have a real influence on the clinical and operational excellence of the service. The post holder will take a pro-active lead in building relationships, partnerships and alliances in the community, secondary care, and primary care settings, and supporting specialist advisors to deliver outcomes that benefit clients referred to the service. They will be responsible for the line management of staff working across Gloucestershire.

The post holder must have extensive knowledge and hand’s-on experience in public health or behaviour-change settings.

Skills and Competencies Required

• An experienced senior leader with experience in delivering excellent healthy lifestyle services. across community settings
• Skilled in project management accustomed to using tools and processes to identify project goals, set and manage the schedule, anticipate, and identify issues, remove obstacles, delineate responsibility, track task completion, and communicate progress
• Experience in evolving and developing services within a complex health system.
• A positive and proactive leader with the ability to motivate, engage and support teams to achieve the highest standards and outcomes .
• A strategic thinker, able to foresee and take action to deal with problems and opportunities.
• An adept communicator who adapts the message to fit the needs of the audience including clients, staff, volunteers and partner agencies
• Results orientated and naturally seek quantitative goals and actively seek to outperform them.
• An experienced health practitioner with a knowledge of smoking cessation, weight management or similar
• Be able to build strong relationships, foster trust and co-operation among colleagues and stakeholders
• Be quality driven; naturally seek high standards and actively seek to improve them.
• Value and remain open to new ideas and perspectives.