Public Health Consultant

Tameside Council; Ashton-under-Lyne; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A local council in Greater Manchester is seeking a Public Health leader to provide strategic guidance and drive health improvement across the community. This role involves leading on key programmes, collaborating with various partners, and ensuring effective service delivery to enhance health outcomes for residents. The ideal candidate will be an experienced public health professional passionate about reducing health inequalities.

Benefits

CPD opportunities

Access to research experience

Collaborative work environment

Qualifications

• Energy and drive to improve health and reduce inequalities.
• Interest in wider determinants of health and health improvement.
• Ability to communicate effectively in diverse settings.

Responsibilities

• Provide advice and strategic leadership in Public Health.
• Lead on cross-council and multiagency partnership approaches.
• Ensure services reach residents effectively.

Skills

Problem solving

Communication

Political awareness

Negotiation skills

Motivation skills

Education

Qualified public health professional

Job description

Overview

This is a great opportunity to join our Public Health at Tameside MBC. Tameside is one of the ten boroughs in Greater Manchester and is a 10 minute train ride into Manchester City Centre. We work closely with the other nine local authorities and Public Health teams across Greater Manchester, which includes the GM Combined Authority, led by the GM Mayor Andy Burnham. There are some exciting GM-wide programmes which this role will have the direct opportunity to lead on such as the Live Well programme.

This role will provide strategic leadership both within Public Health as well as across the council and wider system, alongside the Director of Public Health, Assistant Director and the existing Public Health Consultant in the team. This role will provide strategic leadership as part of the Public Health Senior Team, and the Extended Leadership team of the council. You will work with partners to improve health outcomes across the population, as identified in the Tameside Corporate Plan and Health & Wellbeing Strategy. The role reports directly to the Director of Public Health.

It is an exciting time to join Tameside council with lots of positive improvements happening now to realise our vision that Tameside can be a place where everyone can achieve their hopes and ambitions. This role will be a key part of that exciting work, including delivering on Tameside's Live Well programme and being closer to our residents across each of our nine towns to make sure we are delivering more of the right support in the right place, at the right time.

Responsibilities

• Provide advice, guidance and strategic leadership in the Public Health team and across the organization and wider network of partners. This will include senior leadership around a range of agendas including health improvement (including strategic approaches to tackling tobacco harms, unhealthy weight and inactivity), working across the Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) sector, public health advice into the healthcare system (healthcare public health) and supporting the work across our neighbourhoods agenda (including delivering on the Live Well programme).
• Lead on delivering across a cross-council and multiagency partnership approach, with strong relationship and partnership skills, political awareness, negotiation and motivation skills; ability to communicate effectively within diverse settings.
• Support the Public Health function and day-to-day operational activities; contribute to developing wider public health work and workforce.
• Be closely involved in delivering the Live Well programme and ensuring services reach residents in the nine towns.

Team, role and development

Our team is at the core of the exciting work happening in the borough and there are a wide range of areas that this role will have the scope to get involved with including tackling the wider determinants of health and across a range of local partner organisations. You will be working in a team with a broad range of skills and expertise and with an excellent reputation for collaboration and delivery across Tameside. This is a senior leadership role, recognised across the organisation and the wider system. It will provide joint leadership across the Public Health team and the council as a whole. You will have good access to CPD opportunities to support your ongoing professional registration and there will be opportunities to explore areas of interest such as research and health protection, and gaining wide experience of line management and educational supervision.

Qualifications and attributes

• We are seeking an appropriately qualified public health professional with excellent problem solving, communication, political and technical skills who has the energy and drive to make a major contribution to improving health and reducing inequalities in Tameside. A particular interest in the wider determinants of health, health improvement and working with the voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise sector would be desirable.
• The role requires a cross-council as well as multiagency partnership approach, and you will be expected to have strong relationship and partnership skills. A high level of intellectual rigour, political awareness, negotiation and motivation skills and flexibility are required as well as the ability to communicate effectively within diverse settings. Tact, diplomacy and leadership is required and an ability to understand other cultures, advise, challenge and advocate to enable effective working across organisational boundaries and influencing without direct authority.

Organisational values

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do.

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.