Job summary
Kirklees has recently been successful in securing funding from Sport England to deliver a programme of work to improve levels of physical activity across the district. This is an exciting opportunity to work with our local communities and key organisations from health, local government, and wider [our Place Partnership] to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of the people of Kirklees.
This is a key role working across the Kirklees system to develop and lead a programme of work over an initial 18-month period. It is responsible for setting up and leading the ongoing development and delivery of our Place Partnership work.
This funding unlocks the possibility of taking an entirely different approach to addressing physical inactivity. It is essential that we identify the reasons for physical inactivity in the communities we have identified to work with, the root causes and barriers behind this, and identify systemic changes required to support physical activity becoming a natural and enjoyable part of people's lives. Recognising that the existing leisure offer and significant number of established sports clubs across the district may not be the first or natural answer for this demographic.
The role is hosted within the Public Health team in Kirklees Council on behalf of our Place Partnership and our offices are in the centre of Huddersfield.
Main duties of the job
It reports to a Public Health Manager, although the jobholder will also need to work with systems, sectors, and partners from various organisations including health and care, and the programme is overseen by our Place Partnership steering group.
Main Duties:
The role will lead our development work over a period of 18 months. It will actively engage with our communities and be able to work innovatively to work with them on community-led research, development & design to develop and test approaches to increasing physical activity that work for them.
In doing this they will lead the development of service and community interventions to improve levels of physical activity. This may include how statutory bodies build approaches to increasing levels of physical activity into service delivery, working with community organisations to design and deliver new or extended community led programmes to help people to become more active, or building links with other work across Kirklees such as creative health work and employment teams.
They will also work with system partners to develop, amend, and implement policy changes or procedures to improve levels of physical activity, proposing changes in conjunction with working groups which have wider implications across the Kirklees place.
For more information on the role or a discussion please contact:
Emily Parry-Harries: emily.parry-harries@kirklees.gov.uk or Steve Brennan: steve.brennan@nhs.net
About us
About Kirklees
Part of the Yorkshire and the Humber region, Kirklees is set in the heart of West Yorkshire and has a growing population of around 425,500.
With the two major centres of Huddersfield and Dewsbury it encompasses the smaller towns of Batley, Birstall, Cleckheaton, Denby Dale, Heckmondwike, Holmfirth, Kirkburton, Marsden, Meltham, Mirfield and Slaithwaite.
Set against the backdrop of the Pennine Moors and Peak District parkland, the Huddersfield area has some of the UK's most stunning countryside on its doorstep. Yet the North's leading cities, including Leeds and Manchester, can easily be reached within half an hour.
Kirklees has an excellent standard of schools and educational opportunities. High performing colleges and leading universities, combine with competitive house prices to create an enviable lifestyle for families.
The birthplace of famous artists, authors, musicians and actors, the region has a rich cultural heritage too. Throughout the year, towns and neighbouring villages come alive with an eclectic mix of plays, music and festivals. While the region is steeped in history, there is also a contemporary feel to the area. It offers diversity like no other place in the UK; so if you're looking for a place where you can enjoy a rewarding career, balanced perfectly with a wonderful place to live, you need look no further, the area has it all.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key areas of responsibility
Leading the achievement of key health and wellbeing outcomes through the management of a
portfolio of priority public health work areas.
Working at both strategic and operational levels, coordinating and leading areas of work.
Using and developing appropriate systems and processes to achieve agreed outcomes.
Working in collaboration with colleagues to ensure public health is central to all council,
healthcare, and wider stakeholders health improvement activity.
Developing and contributing to effective action, including commissioning for health outcomes,
together with partners across sectors and organisations, ensuring a particular emphasis on
reducing health inequalities and influencing healthy public policy.
Developing effective working relationships across the council and with external partners and
stakeholders to ensure a health in all policies approach and to influence broad public health
local thinking, policy and strategy.
Ensuring effective provision of public health advice as appropriate to the council, joint
commissioning arrangements and with other key partners in Kirklees.
Supporting and managing successful change through evidence-based approaches including
project, change and performance management.
Ensuring information and intelligence informs priorities, focus and appropriate activities.
Ensuring that public health work is joined up and connected to focus on interdependent
outcomes and a holistic approach to improving health.
Providing advice and support to colleagues and partners around the wider determinants of
health and promoting understanding of the impact these have on improving physical, mental,
social and economic health outcomes.
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Provide public health advice as appropriate within Kirklees Council and to partner agencies.
Manage successful change through evidence-based approaches including project, change and
performance management, ensuring where appropriate effective engagement of key
stakeholders throughout the process.
Effectively manage the relevant resources, including where appropriate work stream and
project budgets and staff management responsibilities as appropriate to the work areas.
Ensure insight about target audiences informs the design and commissioning of interventions.
Ensure information and intelligence informs priorities, focus and appropriate activities.
Participate in the development and effectiveness of strategic, commissioning and planning
partnerships, across systems and sectors to improve public health and reduce inequalities.
Work with these partnerships to enable the redesign of services to address local needs and
reduce inequalities.
Provide advice to commissioners and partnerships on effective evidence-based approaches to
improve the health of the population and reduce health inequalities.
Ensure effective assessment of the impact upon the health of the population of policies and
plans.
Ensure work with service providers across sectors and settings identifies existing and required
public health capacity and capability of the relevant workforce.
Have a comprehensive understanding of the priorities of other council areas/external
organisations to facilitate change.
Have a good understanding of the broad context of health within a place and the ability to
connect health to place based decision making.
Work within council directorates and with external stakeholders to develop ways of working,
systems and policies which can facilitate a broad range of outcomes, including health.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key areas of responsibility
Leading the achievement of key health and wellbeing outcomes through the management of a
portfolio of priority public health work areas.
Working at both strategic and operational levels, coordinating and leading areas of work.
Using and developing appropriate systems and processes to achieve agreed outcomes.
Working in collaboration with colleagues to ensure public health is central to all council,
healthcare, and wider stakeholders health improvement activity.
Developing and contributing to effective action, including commissioning for health outcomes,
together with partners across sectors and organisations, ensuring a particular emphasis on
reducing health inequalities and influencing healthy public policy.
Developing effective working relationships across the council and with external partners and
stakeholders to ensure a health in all policies approach and to influence broad public health
local thinking, policy and strategy.
Ensuring effective provision of public health advice as appropriate to the council, joint
commissioning arrangements and with other key partners in Kirklees.
Supporting and managing successful change through evidence-based approaches including
project, change and performance management.
Ensuring information and intelligence informs priorities, focus and appropriate activities.
Ensuring that public health work is joined up and connected to focus on interdependent
outcomes and a holistic approach to improving health.
Providing advice and support to colleagues and partners around the wider determinants of
health and promoting understanding of the impact these have on improving physical, mental,
social and economic health outcomes.
Page 2 of 5
Provide public health advice as appropriate within Kirklees Council and to partner agencies.
Manage successful change through evidence-based approaches including project, change and
performance management, ensuring where appropriate effective engagement of key
stakeholders throughout the process.
Effectively manage the relevant resources, including where appropriate work stream and
project budgets and staff management responsibilities as appropriate to the work areas.
Ensure insight about target audiences informs the design and commissioning of interventions.
Ensure information and intelligence informs priorities, focus and appropriate activities.
Participate in the development and effectiveness of strategic, commissioning and planning
partnerships, across systems and sectors to improve public health and reduce inequalities.
Work with these partnerships to enable the redesign of services to address local needs and
reduce inequalities.
Provide advice to commissioners and partnerships on effective evidence-based approaches to
improve the health of the population and reduce health inequalities.
Ensure effective assessment of the impact upon the health of the population of policies and
plans.
Ensure work with service providers across sectors and settings identifies existing and required
public health capacity and capability of the relevant workforce.
Have a comprehensive understanding of the priorities of other council areas/external
organisations to facilitate change.
Have a good understanding of the broad context of health within a place and the ability to
connect health to place based decision making.
Work within council directorates and with external stakeholders to develop ways of working,
systems and policies which can facilitate a broad range of outcomes, including health.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- You will hold a masters degree relevant to public health or be able to demonstrate significant experience and knowledge relevant to Public Health.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of leading the development, management, and implementation of key health programmes to identify and address local health inequalities - with a specific focus on physical activity.
- Experience of leading the development of shared health outcomes for relevant work areas in line with national and local priorities.
- Experience of developing, facilitating and leading partnership working in order to ensure an integrated and connected approach.
- Experience of effective stakeholder involvement in design, development and delivery of programmes, services, or activity. Experience of using information and deriving intelligence to inform priorities, focus and appropriate activities.
- Experience of identifying, assessing and monitoring the health needs of the local population in relevant work areas and the factors that influence their health and ill health.
- Experience of people, relationship, and staff line management.
- Skilled at providing advice to colleagues and partners on effective evidence-based approaches to improve the health of the population and reduce health inequalities.
- Skilled in transformational leadership and management.
- Ability to build effective partnerships to influence change
- Skilled in resource and budget management.
- Skilled in facilitation and development of workforce capacity and capability/organisational development.
- Skilled at analysing, interpreting, and presenting data and intelligence to a range of audiences
- Knowledge and understanding of decision-making processes in local authority and relevant partner organisations.
- Knowledge and understanding of importance of organisational culture and how this can impact on public health practice.
- Knowledge and understanding of the public health agenda and ability to develop and turn policy into practice.
- Knowledge and understanding of social, economic, and environmental factors influencing health.
- Knowledge and understanding of the importance of a health in all policies approach
- Knowledge and understanding of the use of relevant evidence based public health interventions to tackle health inequalities.
- Knowledge and understanding of current policies and strategies relating to public health.
- Knowledge and understanding of methods and approaches, to support individual, cultural, and organisational behaviour change.
- Knowledge and understanding of managing, analysing, and interpreting information & deriving intelligence.
- Knowledge and understanding of effective commissioning for health outcomes across sectors and organisations, with a particular emphasis on reducing health inequalities.
- Place-based working and the opportunities that working this way brings.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- You will hold a masters degree relevant to public health or be able to demonstrate significant experience and knowledge relevant to Public Health.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of leading the development, management, and implementation of key health programmes to identify and address local health inequalities - with a specific focus on physical activity.
- Experience of leading the development of shared health outcomes for relevant work areas in line with national and local priorities.
- Experience of developing, facilitating and leading partnership working in order to ensure an integrated and connected approach.
- Experience of effective stakeholder involvement in design, development and delivery of programmes, services, or activity. Experience of using information and deriving intelligence to inform priorities, focus and appropriate activities.
- Experience of identifying, assessing and monitoring the health needs of the local population in relevant work areas and the factors that influence their health and ill health.
- Experience of people, relationship, and staff line management.
- Skilled at providing advice to colleagues and partners on effective evidence-based approaches to improve the health of the population and reduce health inequalities.
- Skilled in transformational leadership and management.
- Ability to build effective partnerships to influence change
- Skilled in resource and budget management.
- Skilled in facilitation and development of workforce capacity and capability/organisational development.
- Skilled at analysing, interpreting, and presenting data and intelligence to a range of audiences
- Knowledge and understanding of decision-making processes in local authority and relevant partner organisations.
- Knowledge and understanding of importance of organisational culture and how this can impact on public health practice.
- Knowledge and understanding of the public health agenda and ability to develop and turn policy into practice.
- Knowledge and understanding of social, economic, and environmental factors influencing health.
- Knowledge and understanding of the importance of a health in all policies approach
- Knowledge and understanding of the use of relevant evidence based public health interventions to tackle health inequalities.
- Knowledge and understanding of current policies and strategies relating to public health.
- Knowledge and understanding of methods and approaches, to support individual, cultural, and organisational behaviour change.
- Knowledge and understanding of managing, analysing, and interpreting information & deriving intelligence.
- Knowledge and understanding of effective commissioning for health outcomes across sectors and organisations, with a particular emphasis on reducing health inequalities.
- Place-based working and the opportunities that working this way brings.
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
