Director of Public Health
| Posting date: | 12 March 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 April 2025 |
| Location: | Tameside, OL6 6BH |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75689260 |
Summary
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: SMT2 - £104,187
Hours Per Week: 36 Hours
Base Location: Tameside One, Market Place, Ashton-Under-Lyne, OL6 6BH
Assessment Date: Week commencing 7th April 2025
The Role
This post is a joint post between NHS GM and Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council.
In Tameside we are committed to actively improving the well-being of our population. Public health led commissioning lies at the heart of our organisation driven by a determination to increase life expectancy and reduce health inequalities. We are making excellent progress, but compared to the rest of England local people are more likely to die prematurely from preventable causes.
As a key member of the Senior Management Team of both NHS GM and Tameside MBC, this joint appointment is a fantastic opportunity to work across both organisations and with our local communities, to make a real difference to health prospects of local people.
About You
You will be an appropriately qualified, highly-skilled and an experienced public health professional, able to lead multiple programmes across both NHS and Local Authority frameworks to improve health and address inequalities in Tameside.
You must have the drive and character to inspire and develop staff and the organisation with proven ability to lead transformational change. Offering a practical, outcome-focused approach, you will have the ability to effectively engage with the community and other stakeholders, acting as a champion on public health issues.
You will need to demonstrate high levels of political awareness with the skills and sensitivity to work in a complex and changing environment.
About Us
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.
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 values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.
Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.
This is a politically restricted post.
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 further information about this role please contact the recruiting manager on 0161 342 2163 or stephanie.butterworth@tameside.gov.uk
Reference Number: DPT660
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