Assistant Director of Public Health

Overview

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Public Health team within Tameside MBC. 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. This role sits on the Extended Leadership Team for the council.

The Assistant Director of Public Health will support the Council and the wider Integrated Care System to transform services at scale, reduce inequalities and co-produce new ways of working informed by the best available evidence. The responsibilities of this role will be wide-ranging, including some specific areas of leadership and holding a specific portfolio of lead areas within the Public Health team.

It will also play a crucial role in the developing Neighbourhood model for Tameside under the Live Well programme, working closely with the Director of Public Health, Director of Adults and other key colleagues and partners to deliver this.

It is a very exciting time to join Tameside council, with a lot of positive change taking place and new investment in services, which gives us the opportunity to go even further to make a difference for our residents and the health outcomes and inequalities across the borough.

The role will have a strong focus on partnership working across a range of services within the council, and external agencies in the NHS, other statutory partners and the voluntary, community, faith & social enterprise sector. This role will act as deputy for the Director of Public Health and includes additional lead responsibilities such as financial management of public health budgets, business planning, performance and commissioning.

There will also be duties relating to corporate leadership, including being part of the strategic civil contingencies on call rota and formally deputising for the Director of Public Health as required at the council’s Corporate Leadership Team and other forums.

• Act as deputy for the Director of Public Health and lead on lead areas within the Public Health team.
• Financial management of public health budgets, business planning, performance and commissioning.
• Corporate leadership duties, including involvement in strategic civil contingencies on call rota and deputising for the Director of Public Health at the Corporate Leadership Team and other forums.
• Work in partnership with the Council, NHS, and external agencies across the voluntary, community, faith & social enterprise sectors.
• Support transformation of services and delivery of the Live Well programme through cross-council and multi-agency collaboration.

• Appropriately qualified public health professional (relevant Public Health registration).
• Excellent problem solving, communication, political and technical skills with energy and drive to improve health and reduce inequalities in Tameside.
• Strong relationship and partnership skills; capable of working across a cross-council and multiagency landscape.
• High level of intellectual rigour, political awareness, negotiation and motivation skills; flexible and able to communicate effectively in diverse settings.
• Ability to advise, challenge and advocate to enable effective working across organisational boundaries and influence without direct authority.
• Open to applicants with relevant experience at Consultant level seeking to take the next step in their career.

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We support economic growth, provide high quality health and care services, protect our most vulnerable and create strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

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

This position is subject to Basic Disclosure Procedures. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. This is a politically restricted post.

If you have completed the GM Elevate (Leadership Development) Programme, please indicate this within the ‘About You’ or ‘Supporting Statement’ section of your application. Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship. We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer.

Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.

Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here. For an informal discussion, please either email or telephone James Mallion, Director of Public Health, on j or