Commissioning Manager - Children and Young People's Public Health

Help Staffordshire achieve our ambition of good health and wellbeing for all.

We’ve got a vision at Staffordshire – we want our county to be an innovative, ambitious and sustainable county, where everyone has the opportunity to prosper, be healthy and happy.

About Us: You'll be working in the Public Health Team within the Health and Care Directorate focusing on children’s public health priorities. Our team provides oversight and delivery of the county’s public health responsibilities.

We provide specialist input, technical expertise, and leadership for a range of programme areas, working ‘upstream’ to prevent ill health and enable good health and wellbeing. Our focus is on reducing health inequities and achieving the best possible health and wellbeing outcomes for all of Staffordshire’s residents.

This is an opportunity to be part of our exciting programmes of work across Staffordshire. You will be leading on public health programmes focused on improving the health and wellbeing of children and families.

As a Commissioning Manager you will shape and embed public health programmes across Staffordshire. Working collaboratively with council colleagues, a wide range of partners and local communities to understand health inequalities, co-ordinate and deliver local plans and capture outcomes.

You will be passionate about promoting improvements in public health and reducing inequity and you will promote co-production to ensure the voice of the person is recognised.

You will be integral part of our approach to children’s public health, playing a contribution to a range of commissioned programmes, including the 0-19 service and the children’s elements of our Better Health Staffordshire healthy weight programme. You will also provide expertise on children’s public health to wider public health agendas as part of the all-age team.

A key focus will include representing Staffordshire on a multi-agency programme across Staffordshire to reduce infant mortality. You will be collaborating with senior leaders and system-wide partners including the NHS integrated care board and other local authorities to provide strategic leadership and drive forward this agenda. You will also provide public health advice to the Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Child Deaths Overview Panel.

We are looking for someone who has the following skills:

• Collaboration - Substantial experience of working with/in partnerships. You’ll have good communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills to build and maintain strong working relationships and deliver shared ambitions.
• Strategic thinker – You need to be able to work at a strategic level whilst also using your strong project management skills to refine and deliver objectives.
• Data driven - You can understand and interpret data and evidence and use this to inform programme development and delivery.
• Passionate - You will be passionate about improving public health and reducing health inequalities and be committed to community engagement and coproduction.
• Committed - You will also be able to work effectively as part of the team to deliver our objectives and outcomes, with a high level of personal drive and integrity, and committed to proactively solving problems and developing innovative solutions to improve outcomes.

Interviews will be held on the 11 July.

Don’t feel you meet all the requirements? We value transferable skills, experiences, and qualifications so consider applying anyway or for an informal chat about the role please contact Lucy Hegarty, Public Health Specialist, at lucy.hegarty@staffordshire.gov.uk

Our Recruitment Process: We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight what you’ll bring to the role.

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

Our benefits:

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire

Our recruitment process:

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.