Healthy Lifestyles Programme Lead

NHS Jobs; New Jersey; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Jobs is seeking a senior leader to influence clinical and operational excellence within the service, building relationships across community, secondary, and primary care. The post holder will lead staff across Gloucestershire, driving evidence-based interventions and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities include shaping service strategy, delivering key result areas, and promoting the service externally while ensuring robust governance and governance reporting.

Qualifications

• Senior leader with experience delivering healthy lifestyle services.
• Experience across community settings and partnerships.
• Proficient in project management with goal setting and progress tracking.

Responsibilities

• Lead quality improvement across the division and Gloucestershire service.
• Line manage staff and supervise day-to-day performance.
• Develop and coordinate Advisors to provide evidence-based interventions.

Skills

Senior leader

Community settings

Project management

Health system evolution

Strategic thinking

Communication

Data-driven

Job description

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 hands-on experience in public health or behaviour-change settings. The post holder has responsibility of delivering the following key result areas:

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Exercise strong practice leadership in a style and manner consistent with the companys values, sharing best practices, positively influencing colleagues at all levels, and encouraging reflective practice and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Drive quality improvement across the division and support the Gloucestershire service contributing towards overall objectives.
• Conduct observations and care record audits across all services and feed improvements needed in each service development plan.
• Provide a leadership role in service planning, development, implementation, and coordination of all elements of the service.
• To develop and coordinate a team of Advisors to ensure they provide evidence based interventions to Gloucestershire residents.
• Line manage a team and be responsible for supervision and day to day management and performance.
• Actively involved in the promotion and advertisement of the service.
• To support the team with their professional development ensuring audits and observations are scheduled regularly.
• To take accountability and responsibility for KPIs and ensure weekly/monthly updates are provided to the Head of Service.
• Effectively work with the data team, Heads of Service and Project leads to ensure the data for all services demonstrate clear outcomes.
• Work with the Professional leads to embed the integrated service strategy across all services.
• Work collaboratively with key stakeholders in the community, primary care, and secondary care to ensure a seamless referral pathway and feedback system is adhered to and improved where necessary.
• Input to multi -disciplinary meetings as required.
• Input into Governance procedures to ensure the service is both safe and effective
• Produce reports to showcase effectiveness and improve performance.
• Work in partnership with primary care, secondary care, and community stakeholders to disseminate information and deliver campaigns.
• Increase referrals by promoting and communicating with other professionals.
• Contribute to the social values of the service.
• Work within agreed boundaries and relevant policies and standard operating procedures.
• Plan and organise workloads effectively
• Ensure robust client records are up to date at all times.
• Use reflection and evaluation to improve service delivery.
• Delivery of training to appropriate professionals and other stakeholders.
• Delivery of Healthy Lifestyle Services

This role will develop over time and therefore it is expected that post holder will have additional responsibilities

The desire to make a difference

We are looking to change the lives and improve the wellbeing of the people in Gloucestershire

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.

Please note that we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role