Wirral, Mallory, 2 Alice Ker Square, Hybrid Working (Hybrid)
Temporary, Flexible hours, Full time
No DBS check required
£60,273 - £63,291
36 hours
There has never been a more exciting time to join Wirral Council. We’ve got ambitious targets to meet and to achieve everything we have promised to our residents, we need people who are ready to deliver the very best for our communities and show how they can #BeTheDifference. Our vision is to secure the best possible future for our residents, defined by the community prosperity we create and supported by our excellent people and services. If you strive to #BeTheDifference and want to be at the heart of our change and improvement journey, then this could be the perfect job for you.
Programme Lead - All Together Smokefree
Fixed term to 31 March 2027
Champs Public Health Collaborative has an exciting opportunity for a passionate, dynamic and highly motived Senior Public Health Programme Manager to work across Cheshire and Merseyside on an innovative, large scale public health programme to transform population health and wellbeing through tackling our single greatest cause of preventable inequalities. The All Together Smokefree ambition is to end smoking, everywhere, for everyone in Cheshire and Merseyside, delivering a Smokefree 2030 that is fair and equitable for adults and a tobacco free future for every child.
About the role:
You will be supported by All Together Smokefree Strategic Lead and Lead Director of Public Health. The post holder will be a key senior role as part of the Champs Public Health Collaborative and will manage a small team, taking responsibility for leading and directing the development and successful implementation of the substantial All Together Smokefree programmes of work, including commissioned programmes and evaluation. This will include taking responsibility for working with all partners to oversee programme and commissioned delivery and performance against objectives, finances, milestones and programme outcomes, initiating corrective action in conjunction with programme partners where required.
The role will provide high quality expert advice to Champs DsPH Board and the Cheshire and Merseyside Population Health Partnership Board, plus system and collaborative leadership across the Health and Care Partnership, and across sectors including local authorities, voluntary organisations and other statutory partners, plus national coalition partners such as Action on Smoking and Health.
About the candidate:
You must be able to work to tight deadlines and have the ability to ensure high levels of intellectual rigour, political awareness, negotiation, motivation and advocacy skills, as well as flexibility.
This is a fixed term post to 31 March 2027 and the post holder will be part of the Champs support team. The Champs support team leads, facilitates and enables delivery of the key programmes of work (hosted by Wirral Council). For more information www.champspublichealth.com
For an informal discussion, please contact Helen Cartwright (cherylyeardsley@wirral.gov.uk)
If your skills, knowledge or experience looks a little different from what we have identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you - as subject to the skills, knowledge or experience levels within the candidate pool we may explore a traineeship for this role.
If you are a Wirral resident, are unemployed or out of work, and require help with your application, please contact Involve Northwest’s employment and skills team on info@involvenorthwest.org.uk or contact 0151 644 4500 or 0151 652 4349.
If you’re already a Wirral Council employee, as part of our Talent Strategy, we’re committed to strengthening opportunities for our people to learn, grow, progress and thrive. For many of you, this may be preparing and applying for your next role with us, and we're passionate about ensuring you feel supported throughout your internal recruitment experience. Please get in touch if you want to know more about some of the ways in which we could support you by emailing recruitment@wirral.gov.uk
Working at Wirral
You’ll also want to know what it’s like to work here so, as a start:
Our values are more than just pieces of paper on our walls! We’ve all played a role in developing these, so they reflect the immense pride we have in what we do, what matters to us, what inspires us and inform how we think, approach things and behave.
We believe in ensuring staff are well looked after, staff wellbeing is a priority for us. We’re serious about recognising and rewarding people for the great things they do. You’ll benefit from our track record of developing, growing and investing in our people.
We have a range of staff benefits including staff discounts, an excellent pension scheme which includes a generous employer contribution rate, immediate life cover and ill-health protection. We have a strong flexible working approach, hybrid working, family-friendly employment initiatives and an annual leave package starting with 28 days leave plus public holidays.
We have an inclusive, engaged culture, everyone has a voice, everyone is valued for their contribution and understands the role they play in delivering our strategic priorities.
Each voice is heard, each contribution valued. We embrace diversity in our workforce and recognise it is critical to our success. We support an inclusive culture that champions differences and nurtures a sense of belonging. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds, who share our values and our commitment to inclusion to apply for roles with us.
We want you to be your best at work, we create the conditions to help you thrive and we mirror this in our recruitment process. If you’d like us to do anything differently during the recruitment process to make it barrier-free and as accessible as possible please contact recruitment@wirral.gov.uk
Please note that in accordance with the Council’s policy, employees who are in a formal redeployment situation will be considered in the first instance for all vacancies.
It is Council policy not to re-appoint any employee who has left under the terms of the Council's Early Voluntary Retirement (EVR) scheme or who have left with a voluntary severance (VS) package, unless in exceptional circumstances.
Applications will be accepted until midnight on the closing date.
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