Deputy Director Health Improvement Policy Analysis

The drug and alcohol treatment portfolio seeks to support systems to deliver high quality services to treat people with drug and alcohol problems and support long-term recovery. This work has the ultimate aim of reducing the harms and deaths associated with illicit drugs.

Key Responsibilities

As Deputy Director Health Improvement Policy Analysis your key responsibilities will be to:

• set the strategic direction for analysis including leading analytical projects, building the evidence base and enabling research and collaboration
• oversee modelling, impact assessment, policy analysis, statistical good practice, quality assurance of analysis in line with the analysis function standard: Government Functional Standard GovS 010: Analysis - GOV.UK
• provide data drug and alcohol misuse and treatment to commissioners and providers of services, and publish national statistics related to substance misuse treatment
• inform policy advice on improvements to the drug and alcohol treatment sector, and support cross-government strategies with evidence
• monitor and evaluate the portfolio of activity to combat drug and alcohol problems, and support oversight of delivery of substance misuse treatment across England
• develop new data, including a new early warning system on synthetic opioids and new linked data assets that enable investigation of the relationship between drug/alcohol treatment, and wider health and social needs and outcomes
• manage relationships with key stakeholders in other governments departments, public bodies and agencies, academia, and the treatment sector to strengthen the evidence base on action to tackle drug and alcohol problems.