Associate Director of SY Tobacco Control Alliance

Job responsibilities

Job Description for 4352

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the role and responsibilities.

Supporting Documents

Please refer to the values-based recruitment guidance and associated documentation

Attributes

Essential

• Commitment to personal, staff and organisational development.
• Self-confident and emotionally resilient.
• Self-motivated, enthusiastic, proactive and innovative
• Adaptable to situations, can work productively with people of all capabilities and attitudes
• Ability to motivate and enthuse others.
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills with an ability to negotiate highly complex issues and influence major stakeholders, displaying credibility and political acumen where there is resistance or antagonism to proposals.
• Calm, works well under pressure
• Ability to perform well against a background of change and uncertainty.
• High standards of personal and professional probity; integrity
• Understands the principle of confidentiality.

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to Masters level or equivalent experience.
• Evidence of ongoing continuous career/professional development.
• Evidence of extensive experience working in a senior leadership role in Tobacco Control
• Evidence of working with people affected by Smoking across service improvement initiatives and the application of co-production techniques.
• Experience of managing people and a team including recruitment, selection and appraisal.
• Evidence of leading large scale public health programmes work through effective partnership working and influencing major stakeholders to effectively to build consensus and collective decision-making environments, across a wide range of organisations.
• Experience and knowledge of working with the voluntary sector.
• Experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive and sometimes hostile environment.
• Knowledge and experience of service improvement development and commissioning
• Numerate, with an ability to analyse, interpret, make connections and present complex information clearly. Experience of deciphering and communicating complex issues to a range of different audiences including statutory bodies and groups, public meetings and the media. Expertly leading the production of key reports and papers to positively influence and support strategic decisions for reconfiguration of services
• Experience of managing and mitigating risks.
• Knowledge and experience of the public health environment and roles and responsibilities across the South Yorkshire ICP system including LA, VCF sector and the NHS across both primary and secondary care.
• Proven track record in developing successful business cases, options appraisals, strategies and plans

Desirable

• Postgraduate executive qualification e.g. MBA, Executive Healthcare Leadership Award
• Relevant project/programme management qualification for example PRINCE 2 Practitioner or MSP or equivalent experience

Values based questions

Essential

• In around 100 words please describe what Equality & Diversity means to you and why they are important.

Experience

Essential

• Sufficient understanding of key statutory organisational issues including HR, logistics, informatics to assess key requirements and impacts
• Understanding of social and political environment
• Knowledge and awareness of key national policy initiatives in relation to Tobacco Control
• Understanding of the broader framework of the NHS reforms including ICB/ ICP, alongside current policies in relation to health and social care
• Knowledge and awareness of national policy initiatives with regards to Tobacco Control specifically.
• Knowledge and understanding of the key issues faced by people affected by Smoking
• Knowledge and understanding of person-centred care and advocacy.
• Understanding of corporate governance, accountability, stewardship of public money and principles of good scrutiny.
• Experience of monitoring budgets, business planning processes and securing funding from a range of difference sources.
• Proven successful planning and organisation experience.
• Performance management, including monitoring of delivery to timescales.
• Ability to efficiently prioritise own workload and the workload of others whilst working within very tight deadlines and with differing priorities.
• Experience of using Microsoft Office IT packages such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Skills and Competencies

Essential

• Strategic thinker with proven leadership skills and sound judgment
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including ability to present to a variety of audiences (including at Board level) on a range of issues, and prepare concise yet insightful written communications and reports for dissemination to a range of senior stakeholders.
• Ability to work successfully with others in collective forums, Boards, Networks, Alliances, organisations and teams
• Confidence in communicating with clinical colleagues, a range of nonclinical partners, voluntary and community sector partners, and the public.
• Demonstrated capability to plan over a short, medium and long-term timeframe, adjusting plans and resource requirements accordingly.
• Intellectual capacity and application to be able to think conceptually, to plan flexibly, to look for continual ways to improve, find solutions within an emerging and extremely ambiguous context to deliver results with the programme context
• Significant capability to understand and analyse multiple complex issues simultaneously, drawing on a breadth of knowledge, experience, understanding and data sources to inform judgment and decision-making, and to see that information ethically to balance competing priorities and make difficult decisions
• High level analytical skills and the ability to manipulate and assess qualitative and quantitative data, develop strategies, business plans and advice and to draw appropriate conclusions where expert opinion differs.
• Ability to design, develop, interpret and implement policies
• Ability to gain confidence and credibility of a range of professionals and across organisational boundaries
• Demonstrate ability to exercise sound judgement and the confidence to question and challenge information from others (who may be experts in their field) to achieve objectives.
• Highly developed, negotiating and influencing skills, overcoming barriers to understanding and acceptance, and reaching agreements.
• Strategic and politically astute
• Passionate about Tobacco Control, reducing smoking prevalence and health inequalities and service improvement
• Self-motivated and able to work autonomously, as well as part of a team.

Desirable

• Highly developed situational awareness and judgement to enable rapid assessment of alternative solutions, managing uncertainty and conflicting views.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).