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About the role

At Nottingham City Council, we are looking for an exceptional Consultant in Public Health to help lead our mission to create a healthier, fairer, and more resilient city. This is a senior leadership roles where you will shape strategy, build partnerships, and drive innovation that improves lives, focusing on the Health Improvement portfolio. We are an award-winning team, who are focussed on delivering meaningful improvements in health outcomes, putting the health of our citizens first and challenging the status quo to make real change happen.

Whats the role really about?

Youll be: Setting strategic direction across public health domains including health improvement, healthy aging and long term conditions Collaborating across the council, NHS, voluntary sector and beyond to lead joined-up action Using evidence and intelligence to drive decision making and improve population health Leading services and teams with impact, purpose and kindness Playing a central role in delivering our Joint Local Health and Wellbeing Strategy priorities, including reducing harm from alcohol, creating a smoke-free city and helping people to thrive and be resilient in work.

Nottingham is a city with big ambitions and deep roots in community, creativity and resilience. Were serious about public health, serious about equity and serious about delivering the best for the people who live here. We work in a bold and values-driven way, and we need senior leaders who want to bring their full selves to the work. Youll be supported by the Director of Public Health, a strong and committed senior team and a whole system that wants to do public health better. Our vision focuses on prevention, reducing health inequalities, supporting vulnerable groups and working closely with people who have lived or living experience. The work is meaningful, important and collaborative.

Person specification

Essential

Experience as a service leader in a complex organisation with similar responsibilities, budget and resources.
Evidence of a successful track-record of creating a vision for service delivery, translating clear objectives to deliver outcomes that make a positive difference.
Evidence of successful involvement in building the reputation of services and inspiring people to deliver continuous improvement.
Evidence of driving accountability, balance risk and respect good governance and ensuring understanding at all levels.
Evidence of financial and commercial awareness with strong analytical skills and a creative approach to problem solving.
Demonstrate an understanding of the current issues and challenges facing local government in general and Nottingham City Council in particular.
Evidence of successfully leading and motivating people and cultivating a culture that creates high performing people and services.
Evidence of empowering others to take decisions and follow through confident actions, through strong and visible leadership.
Evidence of successful strategies in managing your own personal resilience and wellbeing at a leadership level and role modelling this practice.
Evidence of planning for the future delivery of services, including the effective workforce planning for capacity and capability challenges.
Evidence of leading change programmes, bringing others on the journey with you.
Evidence of innovative service delivery models that continue to provide high quality services within a smaller financial scope.
Evidence of leading services or teams and experience of having to re-focus service priorities at pace following changes outside of the organisations control.
Experience of developing cultures of continuous improvement where people feel included and involved.
Evidence of working successfully in partnership across different sectors and fostering / harnessing partnerships.
Evidence of actively working to develop a culture of collaboration.
Understanding of how to operate effectively and openly within the democratic process with the political acumen and ability/skills to develop productive working relationships with Councillors and to speak truth to power.
A deep understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion at every level and demonstrative experience in tried and tested methods to deliver inclusive services.
Demonstrating a thorough understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion challenges posed by providing quality public services in our multi-cultural city.
Demonstrating personal commitment to the equality, diversity and inclusion challenges faced by our workforce and Nottinghams people.
Evidence of developing people and services/teams recognise, respect and value individual needs to achieve a culture of inclusivity.
Media experience demonstrating delivery of effective health behaviour or health promotion messages
Experience of using complex information to explain public health issues to a range of audiences
In depth understanding of the health and care system and the relationships with both local national government
In depth knowledge of methods of developing clinical quality assurance, quality improvement, evaluations and evidence based public health practice
Strong and demonstrable understanding of interfaces between health, social care and key partners (dealing with wider determinants of health)
Understanding of the public sector duty and the inequality duty and their application to public health practice
Masters in Public Health or equivalent
Inclusion in the GMC Full and Specialist Register with a license to practice/GDC Specialist List OR inclusion in the UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialists OR be eligible for registration within six months of interview