Service Lead- Public Health
This role is crucial in supporting the division and may involve additional projects, potentially extending the contract duration. If you are a senior public health practitioner with a passion for improving the lives of older people and have the necessary experience, we encourage you to apply for this urgent and impactful role.
This role is paying up to £600 per day (inside IR35), and the successful candidate would be office based in Birmingham once a week.
The key responsibilities of this role are:
- Team and Budget Management: Lead a small team of 5 people and manage the budget, covering areas such as ageing well, Compassionate Cities, Workplace health, and links with Adult Social Care and Neighbourhood Networks.
- Strategy Development: Mobilise the development of the Birmingham Ageing Well Strategy 2025 to 2030, bringing together parties to advance the strategy's vision of creating a vibrant, inclusive city for ageing well.
- Partnership Establishment: Establish a citywide Ageing Well Partnership across Birmingham as a sub-forum of the Health and Wellbeing Partnership.
- Policy Development: Understand and implement public health principles, develop policies, and lead multi-agency teams.
- Project Support: Undertake additional projects as needed to support the division.
In order to be successful in this role, you will have:
- Senior Practitioner Level: Extensive experience in public health, particularly in the ageing well agenda.
- Health and Social Care Knowledge: Strong understanding of health and social care systems and priorities.
- Commissioning and Partnership Experience: Experience in commissioning and partnership work.
- Public Health Principles: Solid grasp of public health principles, policy development, and leading multi-agency teams.
- Flexible Availability: Ability to start early March, with interviews ideally on Thursday/Friday of this week.
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