Public Health District and Borough Partnership Co-Ordinator
Role Responsibility
This exciting new role offers you an opportunity in overseeing the co-ordination management, implementation and delivery of projects supporting the Districts and Boroughs in their work on improving public health and reducing health inequalities, through action on the wider determinants of health and the local implementation of the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Strategy which is also the Kent Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy.
You will be responsible for a small team of four project officers who will be working directly with three districts/borough councils, supporting these council officers to support their health and wellbeing initiatives and will receive professional and strategic input from the central public health team at Kent County Council.
Partnership working is key to success in this role, and you will be heavily involved with the administration of district Health Alliances that either already exist or soon will do across the county. The Health Alliances bring together a full range of local partners including the voluntary sector, primary care, adult social care and more.
You will lead projects, provide support, present reports for different audiences, and monitor progress against outcomes. You will need to have the ability to prioritise competing demands and objectives, coupled with political awareness, diplomacy and a working knowledge of all stages of the project cycle.
You will have excellent written and verbal communication skills to work efficiently and effectively across organisational boundaries and with internal partners.
As an employee of Kent County Council, you will receive training suitable to the role and to support your development, along with excellent benefits, including 29 days annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme, and flexible working.
This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.
This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
For further information on this post please contact: 03000 417563
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