Head of Service-Oldham and Stockport Integrated Lifestyle Services (Maternity Cover)

Strategic Advocacy; Bolton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 45,000

Job description

Head of Service-Oldham and Stockport Integrated Lifestyle Services (Maternity Cover)

Salary: £40,000 - £45,000 per year
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Contract Type: Fixed Term (15 months)
Location: Oldham with travel to Bolton and Stockport
Closing Date: 20th March 2025
Please quote job reference: ABL 734

Role Purpose
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 the 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.

This is a demanding job, but you will not be on your own. ABL's highly experienced, friendly multi-disciplinary team of Health and Social Care Professionals, Business Intelligence, Service Development, Governance, Finance, and Business development, as well as existing experienced delivery teams, will be available to support you to drive the Service forward.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Senior and operational leadership of the Oldham and Stockport.
• Manage the Project Leads and contracts across the above services.
• Driving the vision of each service with staff, partners, stakeholders, and commissioners.
• Working closely with the Weight Management Quality and Improvement lead to drive the outcomes-based service delivery model and achieve KPIs.
• Leading and ensuring active stakeholder engagement to develop an awareness of the service, ensuring that partners develop effective referral pathways.
• Analyse Internal, local, and national data to impact and direct service outcomes and develop service plans.
• Foster and encourage innovation with the staff team and partners to ensure the service engages with priority groups and priority wards/areas.
• Performance management of the service, ensuring the safe and effective delivery of all service delivery in line with ABL's integrated governance framework.
• Developing service reports of excellent quality, including contract management and performance reports.
• Representing the organization and service at local and regional stakeholder and networking events.
• Driving service innovation utilizing ABL's continuous improvement system, which includes delivery staff in leading innovation and service development supported by specialist leads.
• Working with clinical, community, social care, educational, and statutory stakeholders to deliver safe, effective, person-centred care pathways.
• Work with ABL engagement and communications team to implement and continuously develop the communications and marketing strategy and service promotion.
• Building strategic relationships across the North of England, developing opportunities to expand the work that ABL does across this geography.

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 oriented and naturally seek quantitative goals and actively seek to outperform them.

Employee Benefits

• Birthday Day off
• Flexible Annual Leave scheme
• Employee Referral scheme
• 37.5 hours working week
• Flu jabs
• Blue Light Card
• Cycle to work scheme
• Leadership and staff away days
• Training and Development

Seniority level: Executive

Employment type: Contract

Job function: Management and Manufacturing

Industries: Strategic Management Services