About this role
Job summary
Its an exciting time to join our Public Health team as we continue to work across our system to deliver our Health and Wellbeing ambitions. Our focus is on improving and protecting the health of Warwickshire's residents and reducing avoidable inequalities in health outcomes. This role offers a genuine opportunity to make a meaningful difference to peoples lives.
We are a dynamic, supportive and solution focused team, building on strong, established partnerships. You will work closely with the Local Maternity and Neonatal System, public health commissioners, mental health commissioning leads, and colleagues across the Children and Young People and Education teams. You will also collaborate with colleagues in Coventry on the suicide prevention agenda.
Main duties of the job
You will lead on the Children and Young People agenda, providing specialist public health expertise to commissioners for the newly recommissioned 019 service. This includes working with the local LMNS, contributing to specific CYP workstreams, and working closely with the portfolio holder for children and young people to drive delivery of CYP priorities within the Councils delivery plan. You will also have oversight of the mental health portfolio, working alongside commissioners for public healthfunded mental health services and partnering with Coventry City Council to deliver a joint suicide prevention programme.
In addition, you will provide public health leadership and technical expertise to South Place, one of our three place based partnerships, acting as the Public Health lead. This will involve close collaboration with district and borough councils across the south of the county.
About us
Working for Warwickshire This is the difference you make
Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feels valued, included, safe, supported, and welcome. Our people are at the heart of this vision, could you be one of them!
At Warwickshire County Council we are committed to ensuring Warwickshires economy is vibrant and supported by the right jobs, training, skills and infrastructure. Our people vision for Warwickshire County Council isa great place to work where diverse and talented people are enabled to be their best.
Your future matters to us, we provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19percent per month, to help support your financial security during retirement. The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants.
The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform.
Warwickshire County Council is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and is keen to address areas of under representation in its workforce.
Job description Job responsibilities
Strategic objectives include: Lead all aspects of PH input around Mental Health, Harm Reduction, Substance Misuse and statutory aspects of the Children and Young People and maternity agenda including the 0-19 Public Health Nursing service, linking into the Local Maternity and Neonatal Service and Child Death Overview Panel. Provide strategic leadership for the Countys Mental Health and Wellbeing offer as well as the wider CYP Public health offer. Lead the public health contribution to the South Warwickshire Place Partnership, with responsibility for the geographical areas of Warwick and Stratford-on-Avon districts. Specifically: On behalf of Public Health, take responsibility for ensuring delivery of specific public health prescribed and non-prescribed services such that the full range of benefits are delivered to local residents. These services include mental health services, substance misuse services, suicide prevention, and the CYP Public health service/offer. Lead work across place and be the public health lead for South Place, influencing partnership boards (dealing with wider determinants) to maximise health improvement opportunities and the reduction of inequalities in health outcomes amongst residents. This will include using the Outcome Frameworks as well as exploring other relevant routinely collected data systems for suitable indicators. Have a County wide responsibility for Children and Young People and Maternity and will work closely with the Local Maternity and Neonatal System as Public Health lead. They will provide public health input into the Child Death Overview Panels. Work closely with the Public Health Commissioning Lead and provide strategic oversight of the recently recommissioned 0-19 service and ensure delivery of agreed key performance indicators. Work with colleagues in children and families and education within the County Council to deliver on the Health Child Programme agenda. The strategic responsibility of the postholder is outlined above. In delivering that responsibility the postholder is expected to demonstrate expertise across the full range of relevant competencies as set out by the Faculty of PH and where required, take responsibility for resolving operational issues. In negotiation with the DPH, the postholder may be asked to take on responsibilities that are underpinned by any of the FPH competencies.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Public Health qualification
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details Employer name Warwickshire County Council
Address Warwickshire County Council
Shire Hall
Warwick
CV34 4RL
Employer's website https://www.warwickshire.gov.uk (Opens in a new tab)