Health Programme Advisor - Dorchester, United Kingdom - Dorset Councils

Dorset Councils
Dorset Councils
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Dorchester, United Kingdom

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Description
Organisation

  • Dorset Council
  • Location
  • Dorchester, United Kingdom
  • Reference
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  • Occupational group
  • Public Health
  • Salary details

- £31,099 to £35,41
  • Job term
  • Full Time
  • Appointment type
  • Fixed Term
  • Contact
  • Catherine Boulton
  • Contact
telephone


  • Closing Date
  • 10 September :00 PM
Position - Health Programme Advisor (Localities)

Position - Health Programme Advisor (Programmes)


Available as part-time or full-time posts (depending upon the suitability of applicants, with potential to combine the programme and locality elements).

Public Health Dorset is a great place to work. We're a team of approximately 90 people which includes the LiveWell Dorset health improvement service. We are all passionate about making a difference to population health across Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole and Dorset. Our workplace is friendly, and we support one another.

The work is challenging and sometimes difficult, in what is quite a fluid and complex wider environment; but, working with partners, we are doing some really good stuff and, of course, we want to do more.

In Dorset, a single team works across Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole and Dorset.

Public Health Dorset is accountable to the Joint Public Health Board, comprising of elected members and lead officers from the two authorities.

The team is hosted by Dorset Council, and we work flexibly across local offices with a hybrid approach.


Through a shared service model that supports both Unitary Councils to fulfil their statutory public health duties, Public Health Dorset commissions and provides essential public health services, as well as supporting the Integrated Care System through the Population Health Management and Health Inequalities programmes.


Our work is organised into four key areas:

health protection, health improvement, healthcare public health and healthy places where we continue to work effectively as we support the local system to deliver better outcomes to residents.


You will join a team of Health Programme Adviser colleagues who provide public health advice, support, and lead agreed work across key agendas; directed and supported by a senior sponsor.


What you will be doing

  • A strong track record of being effective in partnership working. Knowledge and experience of working with public sector bodies will be an advantage,
  • The confidence to work proactively, building trusted relationships with a range of partner organisations,
  • The ability to think strategically, assessing evidence and considering systemwide solutions to population health improvement.


The Health Programme Advisor (Programmes) role will include providing support to commissioning, contract management and programme development for the Sexual Health and HIV contract.

See the job description and context statement for further information.

  • Experience of working collaboratively with a range of partners,
  • Skills around engagement both with stakeholders and service users,
  • Proficiency in data analysis,
  • Project management skills,
  • A proven track record of leading and supporting commissioning and/or service delivery and transformation.

About you

  • Highly motivated, responsive, and able to use own initiative,
  • Able to rapidly assess and interpret guidance,
  • Work collaboratively as part of a close and mutually supportive team,
  • Can build great relationships with our partner organisations,
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills,
  • You will demonstrate and role model:
Responsibility, Respect, Recognition and Collaboration, in line with Dorset Council's behaviours and values.

Dorset Council:
A great place to work
We're passionate about making Dorset a great place to live, work and visit. Working for us should be no exception.


At Dorset Council we:
- provide more than 450 services to over 300,000 residents
- have ambitious aspirations
- are excited about our future
- care about Dorset and all the people who live here
- know that all roles make a difference and that our employees are key to our success


You will:
- have access to a range of employee benefits
- be part of an organisation that supports each other to grow and succeed
- have access to range of training opportunities which will help with your personal development and career progression

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We offer an interview to everyone who declares a disability and meets the essential criteria for the role.

We also look for applicants who share our commitment to our behaviours. We will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

This post requires significant travel. You must have a vehicle (or transport we deem suitable) available for use as needed.

This post involves working with children and/or vulnerable adults and/or having access to significant information about them.

This role is UK based and we will need to establish your Right to Work as part o
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