Job responsibilities
Job Purpose
To develop strategy and vision within the service, placing citizens at the heart of all we do. To actively and effectively promote the Joint Local Health & Wellbeing Strategy and the Councils vision, values, aims, objectives and priorities to partners, national and local stakeholders, employees and Nottinghams citizens.
A key success measure in this role will be to provide service leadership and translate this into clear goals and objectives to deliver outcomes that make a positive difference to peoples lives, supporting the practical alignment of policy decisions of executive councillors and ensuring there is clear alignment in all plans. To work collaboratively under with the Director for Public Health (DPH), the Public Health Senior Leadership Team, councillors, colleagues and partners to support the creation of the right conditions for improving health outcomes, reducing inequalities, high performing services, and supporting our corporate ambitions for Nottingham to be a world-class city.
To be accountable for delivering on our promises and to take a lead role in robust decision making through the promotion of good governance and effective options appraisals that balance financial risk and organisational ambitions and promises.
Service Leadership Expectations
Leading People
1. Translate a clear vision and purpose by inspiring and motivating others and ensure citizens are at the heart of everything we do.
2. Role model visible leadership through living and breathing our values and balancing performance, resilience and wellbeing.
3. Develop workforce plans to ensure services have robust plans for the future capability and capacity needs.
4. Empower others to make appropriate decisions.
5. Builds and supports high performing teams and services through effective support, challenge and feedback.
Change and Innovation
1. Lead and drive change in a political and challenging public finances context.
2. Explore innovative approaches to deliver services, managing risks and actively being curious of market analysis and benchmarking.
3. Use robust project management principles to organise people and finances, delivering positive outcomes that are on time and within budget.
4. Design and deliver resilient services, responding at pace to re-prioritise objectives in line with the organisations changing needs.
5. Lead change across services and drive a culture of continuous improvement by encouraging colleagues to share ideas.
Collaboration
1. Work collaboratively across the Council to achieve the best outcomes for the citizens of Nottingham.
2. Lead a culture of collaboration by working across boundaries to break down silos to deliver benefits to the citizens of Nottingham.
3. Proactively harness, develop and seek-out effective relationships to foster the collaborative culture, creating efficiencies and joined-up services to achieve the best outcomes for Nottinghams people.
4. Takes account of the councils priorities when negotiating and aligning resources to deliver services.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
1. Actively promote equality, diversity and inclusion through all actions, and positively challenge inclusion measures within the workforce and in the delivery of services.
2. Design and deliver fully inclusive services, demonstrating awareness of the diverse needs of our citizens.
3. Show commitment to attract, recruit and retain an inclusive workforce that represents our citizens and city.
4. Develop and support to release the full potential of all colleagues ensuring fairness, diversity and inclusion in all service leadership practices.
5. Recognise and respect a culture of inclusivity within the organisation where voices are respected, valued and heard.
Specific Duties
1. To provide strategic and service leadership within the Public Health Division. Specifically ensuring high levels of performance within and across public health services to enable and support forward thinking and innovative service delivery across the Council and with partners.
Responsible for a portfolio of services covering key public health domains including health improvement, health protection and inclusion health
2. To be a key member of the Public Health Senior Leadership Team, establishing effective relationships throughout the Council and across the wider system (including Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Health and Wellbeing Board) to achieve strategic and service leadership and impact through matrix management as well as direct delivery.
3. To lead innovation in the commissioning and delivery of services, managing resources in the most effective way and ensuring service delivery is aligned to Strategic Plans, with clear objectives that are managed through relevant performance arrangements with appropriate governance.
4. Responsibility for briefings on the health and wellbeing needs of local communities to Councillors, Council Officers, ICB, the community and voluntary sector, the public and partners. Where required to, the postholder will provide verbal briefing to Councillors, other colleagues and stakeholders in person which may be at short notice.
5. Responsibility for development, implementation and delivery of policies. This may include taking the lead in developing detailed inter-agency and interdisciplinary strategic plans and programmes based on needs assessments which may lead to service specifications. The postholder will be expected to contribute appropriately to the procurement process.
6. To provide expert public health support and whole system leadership to ensure an evidencebased approach to commissioning and developing high quality equitable services, within and across a range of organizations including voluntary, public and private sector. This will include expertise in evaluation and development of appropriate key performance indicators.
7. To utilising (and if appropriate develop) information and intelligence systems to underpin public health action across disciplines and organisations. This may include providing leadership for collation and interpretation of relevant data including production of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA). Working with the DPH, this will include the integration of the appropriate elements of the public health, NHS and social care outcomes frameworks within the systems developed by the local authority as well as with relevant partner organisations.
8. To support the DPH in the development and implementation of robust strategies for improving the health and wellbeing of local communities including ensuring qualitative and/or quantitative measurements are in place to demonstrate improvements. This may include taking responsibility for the judicious use of the ring-fenced public health grant and/or working with ICBs, providers and Office of Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID).
9. To provide a key local authority link to the research community, providing advice/support to colleagues and co-ordinating appropriate access to scientific information. The postholder will be expected to take part in relevant research networks and to influence research programmes of such networks so that the research needs of the local authority are taken into account.
10. To take responsibility for the training obligations of the directorate, including becoming the Educational Supervisor. These duties will be agreed jointly with the relevant Head of the School of Public Health.
11. Underpinning much of these duties are public health tasks such as;
Undertaking health needs assessments as required to enable actions to be taken to improve the health of the local population.
Developing prioritisation techniques and managing their application to policies, services and to help resolve issues such as the investment-disinvestment debate.
Effective communication of complex concepts, science and data and their implications for local communities, to a range of stakeholders with very different backgrounds.
Understanding of evaluation frameworks and applying those frameworks to the benefit of local communities.
A capacity to apply the scientific body of knowledge on public health to the policies and services necessary to improve health and to formulate clear practical evidence-based recommendations.
The understanding of human and organisational behaviour and the application of this knowledge to the achievement of change.
Inspire commitment to public health outcomes and to prevention as a core feature of public sector reform
12. To ensure the councils equality, diversity and inclusion strategy and associated action plans are embedded within service delivery.
13. Actively promote and ensure good financial management and assist in maintaining financial sustainability within the Council by practising and embedding the Council Financial Accountabilities framework and Financial Regulations.
The post-holder:
will manage a team (including trainees) taking responsibility for line management duties, recruitment, appraisals, disciplinary and grievance responsibilities.
will manage budgets delegated by the DPH and be an authorised signatory in line with the Council constitution.
will be expected to deputise for the DPH as required
All senior leaders are expected to:
- Undertake any other duties allocated by the Chief Executive
- Work outside of normal office hours where required
- Participate on an on-call Emergency Response rota if required
- Travel within and outside the citys boundaries when required.
