Job Advert
Service Manager
About the Organisation:
Public Health Scotland is Scotland’s lead national agency for improving and protecting the health and wellbeing of all of Scotland’s people. Our vision is of a Scotland where everybody thrives. Our focus is on increasing healthy life expectancy and reducing premature mortality. To do this, we use data, intelligence and a place-based approach to lead and deliver Scotland’s public health priorities.
The Post:
The role of the Clinical and Protecting Health Directorate is to protect the people of Scotland from infectious and environmental hazards; enable high-quality clinical and public health knowledge, research and innovation; and change clinical and public health practice by using audits at a national and local level.
The Clinical and Protecting Health Directorate is seeking to appoint a highly motivated and dynamic Service Manager to implement the strategic direction and policy of C&PH Directorate to ensure it is in line with PHS strategy.
The post is within our Environment, Emergency Planning Division and is primarily focused on the topics of Environmental Public Health and Medication Assisted Treatment Implementation Support Team (MIST). Post-holders will be expected to work flexibly across programme areas if business priorities and needs change.
The Candidate:
The role requires demonstrable leadership and management abilities to control the resources, budget and staffing required to deliver the objectives of the service/programme area. We are seeking a candidate with strong communication and interpersonal skills who have the ability to manage change and can demonstrate evidence of managing multidisciplinary teams. The successful applicant will demonstrate a record of success in planning, operational delivery and partnership working with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
Location and Working Pattern:
The post will be based in Glasgow or Edinburgh. PHS operate a hybrid working model with a mixture of working at home and days in the office each week.
There will be an expectation to travel to local areas for some meetings and events.
This is a full time Monday to Friday permanent post at 37.5 hours per week.
Salary placement will start at the bottom point of the scale unless individuals have previous NHS experience.
During times of public health emergency, or other urgent business need, you may be required on a temporary basis to work your normal contracted working hours over 7 days including weekends, in order to meet the needs of the service.
It is a condition of this employment that you must live and remain a resident within the UK for the post in which you will be employed with PHS.
Benefits:
Our benefits package includes pension scheme, comprehensive range of work life balance policies, occupational health services, learning resource centres and discounted leisure, financial and shopping benefits.
Further Information:
For an informal discussion on the post, please contact Fiona MacKenzie fiona.mackenzie13@phs.scot
Closing date for completed applications is Thursday 12th October
Further information on PHS is available from: www.publichealthscotland.scot
Interviews are likely to be held on Monday 30th October.
Please note that the majority of correspondence is sent by e-mail only, so please check your e-mail regularly (including junk folders).
Public Health Scotland is an equal opportunities employer and as such guarantees to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies