Strategic Lead – Mental Health

Job title:

Strategic Lead – Mental Health

Company

Nottingham City Council

Job description

Job Description:Organisation: Leicestershire County CouncilWork Location: County Hall, Glenfield, LE3 8RAWorker Category: Hybrid WorkerSalary: £52,413 – £57,774 per annum (pro-rata for part-time)Working Hours: 37 hours per weekContract Type: PermanentClosing Date: 30th July 2024Are you looking for an opportunity to develop your skills in a varied, challenging strategic role where you can make a difference?About the RoleWe currently have an exciting opportunity to join Leicestershire County Council as a Strategic Lead – Mental Health. Public Health is one of six departments within the County Council, exercising the full range of public health duties, including the delivery and commissioning of services. The Director of Public Health is a chief officer of the council, reporting directly to the Chief Executive.This position reports to the Consultant in Public Health responsible for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention.This is a challenging, interesting and potentially very rewarding role which provides individuals with an opportunity to develop their understanding of mental health as well as their broader public health skills working with partners across the system as well as within the Council.The role will include strategy development, partnership working, commissioning, budget management, and some line management. The programme area itself is broad, taking a lifelong approach, including children and young people, and ranges from mental health prevention and resilience to suicide prevention and dementia.Ideally we are looking for an individual with: a passion for mental health and well being (experience of working in the area of mental health would be desirable but not essential); and an ability to operate at a strategic level with partners at a system, place and neighbourhood level to develop and embed a public health evidence based approach to mental health.As well as being suitably qualified, candidates will need to have experience of successfully managing, budgets, projects, and leading through change. This is a great opportunity to be a member of a high performing team and to ensure that public health plays a key role in the improvement of outcomes for our communities.About YouTo apply for this post, you must have:

• A professional qualification at Masters level or above relevant to Public Health (or demonstrable Public health experience in line with the job description person specification).
• Experience of working with a Local Authority, Public Health or other multiagency partnership setting
• Comprehensive experience of developing, facilitating and leading partnership working to ensure an integrated and connected approach across departments and organisations.
• Experience of developing and implementing strategy in a complex, multi-professional and multi-organisational environment
• Excellent knowledge of partnership agencies in statutory, voluntary and independent sectors and the services they provide
• Demonstrable knowledge of project management methodologies and financial control.

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.In addition, we expect you to share and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview process.Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.Interested in Flexible Working?We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual’s personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the page on our career site.For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:Fiona Grant Consultant in Public HealthEmail: Fiona.grant@leics.gov.ukImran MahomedEmail: imran.mahomed@leics.gov.ukHow to ApplyLeicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity, and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services, we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above. For more information, see the section on our career site.We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: .By applying for this post, you agree to ourAbout Us:About Leicestershire County CouncilLeicestershire County Council is a and organisation. In August 2021, we also signed up to the . We are strongly committed to promoting equality and opportunity, championing employee wellbeing and investing in staff training and development.Our aim is to work with communities and partners to deliver public services that make Leicestershire the best possible place to live and work for everyone. Our employees play a key role in supporting this goal and helping us deliver the vital services we provide to the people of Leicestershire.For further information on what it’s like to work for us and the benefits we offer, please refer to the following:

Expected salary

£52413 – 57774 per year

Location

Leicestershire

Job date

Thu, 11 Jul 2024 02:43:13 GMT

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