Employer – Trafford Council

Address – Trafford Town Hall, Talbot Rd, Stretford, Manchester M32 0TH

Salary – Band 9 ,£39,493 - £42,503

Working Pattern – Full time

Working hours – 36.25hrs

Contract type – Permanent

Closing date – 04/06/23

Interview date – 16/06/23

About us

Trafford Council and its partners in the public, private and third sectors are embarking on a Vision which sees us working together to close inequality gaps and maximise Trafford’s huge potential. Our vision is working together to build the best future for all our communities and everyone in Trafford

Trafford really is a great place to work. With a positive permission culture, we embrace innovation and encourage performance. We’re keen to recruit someone with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.

We currently have an exciting vacancy within our Public Health team to enable us to deliver on our ‘Live Well’ priorities, which include areas such as substance misuse, sexual health, domestic abuse, smoking cessation among others. We aim to improve local health outcomes and reduce inequalities through the effective commissioning of high quality public health services.

About you

With experience of project management and commissioning of services, and a degree or a professional management/ commissioning qualification, you'll have strong organisational skills to ensure projects are meeting key performance indicators and are delivered within set timescales. Using excellent communication skills and your experience in multi-agency working, you'll build strong working relationships with key stakeholders to improve health and well-being outcomes. You'll be able to analyse performance and financial data as well as have the ability to present clearly and concisely to a wide range of audiences in order to influence decision makers and command the confidence of others. If the above sounds like you, then we would love to hear from you!

About the Role

We are looking for a permanent Public Health Commissioning Manager. In this role you'll manage and oversee the implementation of key public health commissioning programmes. Based on an understanding of local health and wellbeing need you'll support the development of commissioning priorities and plans for public health services in Trafford. You'll work collaboratively with key stakeholders such as NHS, voluntary sector agencies and communities to align the market with the aspirations of service users as well as work with contract and procurement staff to support the delivery of services.

We work across a wide array of areas including:

If you are passionate about improving public health outcomes and reducing health inequalities, we’d love to hear from you.

About the benefits

You will be welcomed into a friendly environment where your personal and professional development will be encouraged. You will have the opportunity to work and grow in a people-centred and values based organisation that promotes a positive permission culture. Your opinions matter so you will have the opportunity to shape how we do things here at Trafford.

Trafford recognises the importance of staff wellbeing and offer a number of initiatives for staff including mindfulness, mental health first aiders, running & walking groups and health and wellbeing events.

Our great benefits include:
Pension

Home Technology Scheme
Car Lease Scheme
Cycle to Work scheme
Simply Healthcare
Employee Discount Scheme - 'Perks at Work'

The Council needs to hold and process information about employees, workers and other individuals as appropriate, for various reasons. With the General Data Protection Regulations coming into force we have in place a new privacy notice for staff, contractors, volunteers, trainees, those on work experience and job applicants.

http://www.trafford.gov.uk/about-your-council/data-protection/privacy-notices/Service-Level-Privacy-Notices/Recruitment-Employment-Privacy-Notice.aspx

For more information about the team / role please contact Harry Wallace: 07739 856665