| Greater Manchester Moving

Salary: Grade I. Scale 35 - £46,142 to Scale 39 - £50,269 with a professional bar at SCP 37 £48,226

The Tameside Corporate Plan 2024-27, recognises and values the strengths of people and places, taking an asset-based approach. Our long-term vision is that Tameside is a happy, healthy and ambitious place to live, where people live great lives in their neighbourhoods and communities. Our public service is responsive, person-centred and efficient, and works to support everyone’s access to good education, housing, work and income, green space, leisure facilities and culture.

The role will have a particular focus on physical activity, including daily movement/functional fitness, active travel, and movement for leisure. This includes all aspects of policy, strategy, programme and pathway development, based on TMBC, Health and Wellbeing Board and NHS GM Integrated Care priorities.

This role will focus on improving the health of the local population and tackling inequalities within Tameside, supporting the Strategic Lead and/or Consultant in Public Health leading on this agenda including supporting their leadership of their strategic partnerships and relationships on relevant areas of work. Consequently, this is a role that will work in collaboration with several partners and members of the team and organisation to achieve its objectives.

This role will be part of delivering our exciting Healthy Places Programme with specific action plans around reducing inactivity amongst our least active communities through walking, cycling and wheeling, building physical literacy, and growing daily movement. The role requires an understanding of the influence of the natural and built environment, and perceptions and realities of personal safety on activity levels.

We are seeking an appropriately qualified public health professional with excellent problem solving, communication, and technical skills who has the energy and drive to make a major contribution to improving health and reducing inequalities in Tameside. A particular interest in health improvement would be desirable.

The role requires a cross-council as well as multiagency partnership approach, and you will be expected to have strong relationship and partnership skills. The role will require excellent negotiation and motivation skills and the ability to communicate effectively within diverse settings. Tact, diplomacy and an ability to understand other cultures, advise, challenge and advocate to enable effective working across organisational boundaries and influencing without direct authority.

Main Duties and Responsibilities include:

To influence change through communicating strategies, pathways, evaluations and reports to policy makers, partners, front line staff and the general public.
To use expertise from within public sector system and across the partnership to support strategic and pathway development and implementation, including community development, social marketing and communications skills.
To produce project plans for the implementation of relevant programmes and commissioned services.
To ensure that programmes are planned effectively and have all resources identified and success criteria.
Ensure projects and programmes are delivered on time, and/or are monitored and reported as required.
To plan the implementation of designated programmes and where necessary develop an appropriate business case.
To develop a communication plan for the implementation of designated programmes ensuring that all Partners and Stakeholders are included.
To ensure delivery of project plans, and highlight when delivery to requirements is at risk.
To deliver on defined aspects of service redesign and pathway development based on local priorities in Tameside, NHS GM Integrated Care priorities, and national priorities (DHSC/ OHID/ UKHSA).
To lead on partnership implementation of these redesigned public health pathways.
To implement commissioning and contracting of services to ensure the delivery of high quality, effective and cost-effective services, following all stages of the commissioning cycle and relevant governance.
To lead strategy development in public health priority areas through employing critical appraisal skills using the techniques of health need assessment, health equity audit and drawing insight from across the system as needed.
To act as advocates for a focus on improving the health of the local population and tackling inequalities within the council and with partners – especially in relation to specific areas of responsibility.
To contribute to the assurance of robust health protection measures for the Tameside population.
To work with Greater Manchester partners to develop public health policy and strategy.
To carry out all necessary research and implement findings into the design and delivery of programmes, using a range of available intelligence within the local system, particularly the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment, and other relevant datasets.
To develop the systems and processes necessary to support the management of all programmes.
To work in collaboration with other services across the council and local partners to gather intelligence and information to support the implementation of all programmes.
To produce reports as required to keep all partners and stakeholders informed upon the progress of programme implementation.
Adhere to information governance and data protection guidelines.
To conduct and programme manage – health needs assessments, health equity audits and service or policy reviews, and ensure that these are used to influence service development and redesign.
To provide an input to the development of public health strategy and policy in Tameside MBC.
Responsible for the day-to-day range of staff management matters, which will include responsibility for supporting appraisals, development of staff, recruitment and where necessary processes such as grievance and disciplinary matters.
Responsible for an individual’s development on the job and job performance management.
Involvement in budgetary and financial management.

The duties may vary from time to time without changing the nature of the post or the level of responsibility, and the post holder may also be required to carry out any other duties appropriate to the grading of the post.