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Area Service Lead (Stroud & Cotswold) - ABL 612

Gloucestershire (there may be a need to travel within the South West and nationally)

Please quote job reference: ABL 612

This role is for an experienced Health Care Professional with a background in Healthy Living (Weight Management, public health or stop smoking) to take on a senior service delivery role.

ABL Health have launched a new Healthy Lifestyle service in Gloucestershire, commissioned by Gloucestershire County Council. This transformative service seeks to work collaboratively with communities to transform the lives of the local population. The service will support residents around weight management, stop smoking, reduce alcohol consumption, get more active and improve their wellbeing – all embedded in sustainable behaviour change.  The service will also deliver the 1001 days programme supporting families and young children and the Healthy Workplace award scheme.

This is a leadership role where the post holder will have a real influence on the clinical and operational excellence of the service. The post holder will take a pro-active lead in building relationships, partnerships and alliances in the community, secondary care, and primary care settings, and supporting specialist advisors to deliver outcomes that benefit clients referred to the service.  The role will require you to embed our obesity, stop smoking and wellbeing strategies across services and to improve outcomes through regular observation, upskilling, and training staff, and supporting staff to use the alternative approaches. They will be responsible for the line management of staff working across Gloucestershire.

The post holder must have extensive knowledge and hand’s-on experience in public health or behaviour-change settings.

Skills and Competencies Required:

• An experienced senior leader with experience in delivering excellent healthy lifestyle services across community settings
• Skilled in project management, accustomed to using tools and processes to identify project goals, set and manage the schedule, anticipate and identify issues, remove obstacles, delegate responsibility, track task completion and communicate progress
• Experience in evolving and developing services within a complex health system.
• A positive and proactive leader with the ability to motivate, engage and support teams to achieve the highest standards and outcomes.
• A strategic thinker, able to foresee and take action to deal with problems and opportunities.
• An adept communicator who adapts the message to fit the needs of the audience including clients, staff, volunteers and partner agencies
• Results orientated and naturally seek quantitative goals and actively seek to outperform them.
• An experienced health practitioner with a knowledge of smoking cessation, weight management or similar
• Be able to build strong relationships, foster trust and co-operation among colleagues and stakeholders
• Be quality driven; naturally seek high standards and actively seek to improve them.
• Value and remain open to new ideas and perspectives.

Employee Benefits:

• Birthday Day off
• Flexible Annual Leave scheme
• Employee Referral scheme
• 37.5 hours working week
• Flu jabs
• Blue Light Card
• Cycle to work scheme
• Leadership and staff away days
• Training and Development   

To apply for this role, please click on Apply Now

Closing date for applications: 30th September 2024

Salary: £32,000 – £38,000 (will be pro-rata part time)

Hours Per Week: 18.75 hours per week

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