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NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is one of the largest healthcare systems in the UK employing around 40,000 staff in a wide range of clinical and non-clinical professions and job roles. We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health care services to a population of over 1.15 million and a wider population of 2.2 million when our regional and national services are included.
Health Improvement Lead
(Good Food Nation)
Band 7 (1 wte Fixed Term 18 months)
Working with a Greater Glasgow and Clyde remit, you will be a highly motivated individual with specialist expertise and/or experience in the field of public health nutrition who will project manage the development and publication of a Good Food Nation Plan for NHSGGC that meets the legislative requirements of the Good Food Nation Act 2022.
This is an exciting opportunity to work collaboratively and collectively across food systems, the supply chain and with all parts of society to realise the ambition for a ‘Good Food Nation’. The post will provide leadership and coordination for a programme of work to consult, develop and publish a Good Food Plan for NHSGGC.
Based within the Health Improvement Team of the Public Health Directorate, the post will work closely with the NHSGGC Head of Health Improvement and Assistant Director of Facilities to ensure collaboration with partners and stakeholders including local authorities, HSCPs, local communities, young people and third sector organisations to consult, design, co-ordinate and develop a plan of activity to support the ambitions contained within the Act.
The post will take a lead for developing partnerships with a range of agencies that shape the local food system across Greater Glasgow and Clyde with the aim to develop common priorities and actions to deliver the Good Food Nation outcomes.
You will be ideally educated to post graduate level or with evidence of relevant public health /Health Improvement experience and ongoing CPD. You will have proven experience of operating at a senior level within an NHS or Local Authority environment; working across organisational and/or professional boundaries and ability to develop multiple programmes of work to achieve agreed outcomes within tight deadlines.
Excellent organisational, communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to influence and negotiate across a wide range of staff are essential. Experience of project and resource management across a range of settings would be an advantage.
Informal contact: Linda Morris (Linda.Morris2@nhs.scot, 0141 201 4782)
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