Health Improvement Programme Manager (Fixed Term Until 31.3.2011)
Employer:London Borough of Waltham Forest
Reference:1247/50043037/ENV
Salary:£40,194 - £42,813 per annum
Hours:36 per week
Working pattern:Full Time, Temporary position
Location:Waltham Forest NHS, Kirkdale House, Leytonstone,London, E11 and Sycamore House, Walthamstow, London, E17
Closing date:23/01/2009 23:30 PM
Strategic in your thinking and creative in your approach, you will bring the ability to influence and achieve across a complex inter-organisational landscape. You will build on the partnership already established between the Council, Waltham Forest NHS and wider partners to manage current and future interventions that form part of the Health Improvement Programme. With an understanding of the factors leading to health inequalities, you will provide a strategic lead for the effective delivery of neighbourhood-based health services. You will actively champion innovation and develop relationships with key agencies to ensure the Programme’s interventions have maximum impact and knit into health services and related activity across the borough.
With previous experience of working in the health sector and of managing staff, you will be expected to manage a team of Household Health Improvement Managers in their client focussed roles based in the borough’s priority neighbourhoods. You will have responsibility for ensuring that the Programme’s interventions deliver contracted outputs to budget, and for reporting performance and spend to the accountable body.
A proven operator across agencies, you will use your political, organisational, and leadership skills to ensure the successful delivery of local priorities, effectively channelling resources to meet targets contained within the Council’s Better Neighbourhoods Initiative, Waltham Forest NHS Public Health Strategy and the Local Strategic Partnership’s Local Area Agreement.
Equal Opportunities
Waltham Forest is a diverse borough where diversity is valued and is integral to both, service delivery and employment of staff. The Council is proud of its rich mix of communities and as the largest employer in the area, it works hard to respond to the changing needs of its population.
We use our statutory duties on race, gender and disability equality and best practice in respect of age, faith and sexual orientation to ensure equality of opportunity in the workplace.
The Council is committed to meeting its 4 strategic outcomes contained in its Corporate Equality Plan:
• Promoting equality of opportunity
• Opposing all forms of discrimination, intolerance and disadvantage
• Ensuring our workforce reflects the diverse communities of Waltham Forest at all levels
• Providing fair, appropriate, accessible and excellent services to all.
Respecting Diversity is a core Council value.
For more information please visit: http://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/index/social.htm
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