Head of Service Integrated Lifestyle Services

Strategic Advocacy; Oldham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job description

Head of Service Integrated Lifestyle Services

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Job Summary
You will lead the Integrated Service across Oldham and Stockport and the day-to-day operations to provide an outstanding service to people who wish to lose weight, move more, drink less alcohol, or stop smoking. The services will be easily accessible and provide high-quality and evidence-based support and advice to individuals. Engagement with local community leaders, health professionals, and key stakeholders will form a significant part of the role, enabling health inequality messages to be heard and allowing priority groups to benefit from the service.

The successful candidate will work alongside the Obesity Professional Lead, Weight Management, and Wellbeing Services Quality and Improvement Lead, and be directly line managed by the Divisional Operations Leads. You will be a motivated, passionate, organized, and proactive leader with significant experience in weight management, public health, and managing delivery teams. ABL takes a strength-focused asset-based approach to community delivery, looking to innovate, partner, and enhance local delivery. The role will require dynamic leadership which embraces the vision and values we wish to establish for each Service around community engagement, behaviour change, and reducing health inequalities.

Main Duties of the Job

You will lead the day-to-day operations ensuring each service meets its expected KPIs. You will lead the various teams, nurture and upskill each individual while also setting service direction through service development plans. You will be required to embed robust governance, health and safety, and administration procedures whilst ensuring each service has the resource to fulfil its contractual obligations. This will require working closely with the Divisional Operations Lead and managing each contract with commissioners. You will ensure each service remains people-powered, keeping the patient voice at the heart of everything that we do.

About Us

ABL is an exciting fast-paced, growing community health organization. As an experienced, CQC registered provider of community health services, we are passionate about delivering evidence-based, innovative, effective, and relevant health care services in partnership with individuals, communities, and stakeholders.

Skills and Competencies Required

• An experienced senior leader with experience in delivering excellent weight management services.
• Skilled in project management accustomed to using tools and processes to identify project goals, set and manage the schedule, anticipate and identify issues, remove obstacles, delineate responsibility, track task completion, and communicate progress.
• Experience in evolving and developing services within a complex health system.
• A positive and proactive leader with the ability to motivate, engage and support teams to achieve the highest standards and outcomes.
• A strategic thinker, able to foresee and take action to deal with problems and opportunities.
• An adept communicator who adapts the message to fit the needs of the audience.
• Results orientated and naturally seeks quantitative goals and actively seeks to outperform them.

Experience

Essential

• Delivery/management experience e.g., weight management, behaviour change.
• Experience in managing and inspiring large teams.
• Demonstrable experience in working with external boards and steering groups to improve weight management outcomes for the population.
• Experience in contract and performance management.
• Demonstrable experience with service improvement measures.
• Experience in using data to inform service development to improve outcomes.
• Experience in working with commissioners.

Desirable

• Knowledge of quality improvement models and approaches.
• Knowledge of innovation tools and techniques.
• Knowledge of safeguarding in a community health setting.
• Strong IT skills, particularly with the use of Microsoft Office packages and databases.

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree (or equivalent experience) in the health-related field: Nutrition, Dietetics, Nursing, Public Health.

Desirable

• Masters Qualification or equivalent.
• Quality improvement certification or equivalent.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer Details

Employer name: ABL Health Ltd
Address: Room 417, 2nd Floor Chambers Business Centre Chapel Road, Oldham, OL8 4QQ
Employer's website: https://www.ablhealth.co.uk/work-for-us/join-our-team/