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The Role
The postholder will be responsible for programme management across the Directorate of Public Health. This requires knowledge and understanding of public health issues alongside wide skills and experience. This will include information gathering, data management and analysis, through insight generation, development of recommendations, and the use of health information to support planning and monitoring. The use of negotiation and influencing to achieve changes in policy and practice is key.
NHS Lanarkshire
Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!
Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.
We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.
What we'll need you to bring
- Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline, with a postgraduate qualification (Master’s degree or above) in public health or a related discipline.
- Experience of working in public health/health improvement at a strategic level in service planning, redesign or programme/project management. Demonstrable knowledge and competence to the level of public health consultant in relation to the public health specialism of health information, and general knowledge and capability in the other public health specialist competencies.
- Proven track record of providing leadership to add value to others’ work and a high degree of credibility and acceptance in a leadership role within the public health community.
- Demonstrable experience and success in influencing policy-makers, managers and practitioners to achieve changes beneficial to population health.
- Confident, clear communicator (both verbal & written), with the ability to work credibly with academics and researchers, and to deal with staff at a range of levels and from different organisations and disciplines to achieve results.
- Experience of developing policy and practice recommendations based on research and information, and of working with policy-makers and practitioners to respond to these recommendations.
- Ability to analyse problems systematically and to think creatively to yield new insights.
- Flexibility, enthusiasm for improving population health, willingness to take on new challenges, and ability to contribute to collective processes.
- Well-developed facilitation skills, and the necessary interpersonal skills to work with a wide range of colleagues, including internationally.
It would be great if you also have
- Established networks with other public health specialists, both within Scotland and more widely.
- Understanding of research governance requirements
- Experience of attracting funding from external sources – either for research or for practice development
- Ability to work effectively across a range of programme areas, whilst maintaining a depth of specialism in one area
- Depth of knowledge of issues relating to health improvement in Scotland
- Experience of commissioning research OR of planning and overseeing organisational/professional development programmes
Contract type
Permanent
Full time
37.5 hours
Location and Working Pattern
This role will be based in the Public Health Department within Kirklands - NHSL Headquarters.
The working pattern for this role is: Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm, hybrid working.
Looking to find out more?
If you’re looking to find out a bit more, then we would love to hear from you!
Please contact Mary Louden, Operational Services Manager on Mary.Louden@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk or 01698 752952
For enquiries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please contact Carla Vargas, Recruitment Administrator on Carla.vargas@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk (Please remember to include the job title and reference number in your email)
Interviews will be conducted on Friday 24th November 2023.
Why NHS Lanarkshire?
Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.
Some of NHS Lanarkshire’s benefits include:
A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service
A minimum of 8 days of public holidays
Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension)
Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
Occupational health services
Employee Counselling services
Work-life Balance policies and procedures
NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.
Further Information
For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If you’re looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our recruitment webpage.
Additional Information for Applicants
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In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.
We anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the advert once sufficient applications are received. Please complete and submit your application early.
*Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.
Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.
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