Are you a visionary leader with outstanding interpersonal skills? Do you want to be part of an innovative and forward-thinking team in Public Health? Are you passionate about health improvement and tackling health inequalities? Do you want to make a difference? If so, we want to hear from you. Medway Public Health is looking to recruit a highly motivated, innovative and dynamic Programme Manager to ensure effective delivery of a number of Health Improvement Services. The postholder will coordinate the development, implementation, delivery and evaluation of a broad portfolio of evidence-based projects, which will include the NHS Health Check programme and Medway Stop Smoking Service. These multidisciplinary projects support the achievement of national targets relating to cardiovascular disease prevention, reducing smoking prevalence, preventing ill health and reducing health inequalities. This is a challenging, but rewarding role where you will see evidence of the difference you make to resident’s lives. Public Health aims to improve the health outcomes for those that engage in our programmes, reduce health inequalities and promote lifestyle services within the area. As Programme Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring the services within the roles remit meet the needs of the local population. You will achieve this by leading innovative teams based in various settings in the local community. You will drive performance and the standards of the interventions you manage so they contribute to national targets, whilst developing our offer to deliver best value to residents. If this role appeals to you, please outline on your application your, knowledge, experience and/or skills in the following five areas: Leading programmes of work to meet set targets and objectives whilst adhering to policy and procedures Managing and motivate teams and individuals to deliver services, driving performance and tackling challenges within teams Working with stakeholders to increase their engagement with health and wellbeing, ill health prevention and health inequalities. Ability to work collaboratively and build sound and productive working relationships with colleagues, wider stakeholders and staff groups. Demonstrating influencing and negotiating skills Connecting communities, groups, and individuals to local resources and services that support their health and wellbeing. You must be a non-smoker with a full UK driving licence enabling you to travel throughout the Medway area and occasionally further afield in a timely manner. The role will require some evening and weekend work. In return we offer you: Generous annual leave entitlement Generous local government pension scheme package Access to wider training and development qualifications Flexible working scheme Travel plan discounts Car Benefit Scheme from Tusker Access to CAREFIRST advice & counselling service Employee discount scheme for national and local retailers The Government has introduced new ways of supporting parents with childcare costs. Further details are available here: - https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/ We're committed to making Medway carbon neutral by 2050. We have developed an action plan to ensure we play our part in addressing the climate emergency. Our declaration fits into our Council Plan priority of making Medway a place to be proud of. The main outcome being a 'clean and green environment'. All Medway Council staff can access an additional day’s paid leave to undertake a volunteering activity which supports climate change. Our organisation: Medway is a unitary authority in the South East of England, made up of the towns of Strood, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham and Rainham and more rural areas, including the Hoo Peninsula. Situated in Kent in the South-East of England, the area has plenty of green spaces, excellent facilities and easy access to the national motorway and rail networks, facilitating superb transport links to London. We provide all local Government services for a quarter of a million people, looking after education, environment, social care, housing, planning, business and much more - everything from frontline services such as rubbish collection and events like the Dickens Festival to work that goes on behind the scenes to ensure services in Medway run smoothly and cost effectively. Working at Medway Council means that you get to be part of this journey working alongside talented, professional colleagues to drive forward change to transform the lives of our residents and the communities they live in. For further details or an informal discussion please email Kate Bell, Head of Health and Wellbeing on katherine.bellmedway.gov.uk Important Information- Applicants must be able to demonstrate all essential requirements as listed in the job profile Equal Opportunities Commitment Statement Medway Council is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All appropriately qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, disability, marital status, family commitments, sexual orientation, age, HIV status, religious or political beliefs, social class or trade union activity or irrelevant spent conviction. For further information please refer to the Medway information pack available as a download or to view online. Please be advised that if you are not contacted within 3 weeks of the advert closing date then you have not been shortlisted. All recruitment correspondence, including interview letters and contracts of employment will usually be sent out via email. Please visit http://www.mindfulemployer.net/ for information on how Medway Council put good practices in place to ensure employees and job applicants who declare mental health issues receive the right level of support. We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time prior to the closing date.