Job responsibilities
The Project Lead will assist the Head of Service for the development and operational management of the Stockport Stop Smoking Service in the community. This is a leadership role where the post holder will have a real influence on the clinical and operational excellence of these elements of the service. The post holder will take a pro-active lead in building relationships, partnerships and alliances in the community, secondary care, and primary care settings, and supporting specialist stop smoking practitioners in these areas to deliver outcomes that benefit clients referred to the service.
The post holder must have extensive knowledge and hands-on experience in public health or behaviour-change settings.
Role Purpose:
This is an exciting opportunity to lead a specific area of the wider Your Health Stockport Service. ABL are seeking a dynamic and inspirational leader and manager who will be bold and proactive, developing a new team which will share the vison and aspirations of the service.
Your key responsibilities will be:
- Lead the planning and service development of the Smoking Cessation services across Stockport.
- Drive, enhance and implement the vision of ABL Smoking Cessation service amongst staff, partners and stakeholders.
- Lead and coordinate staff to facilitate service delivery.
- Leading a positive partnership and collaborative approach with stakeholders across your area.
- Ensure high quality delivery and governance within the service.
- Contract performance, reporting and budget management.
The Project Lead will provide operational leadership and management with overall responsibility and accountability for delivering project outputs and outcomes of the service across Stockport. The post holder will lead a multi-disciplinary team to ensure that delivery outcomes are achieved.
The post holder will ensure services are delivered and developed to provide high quality, safe and effective packages of support that respond to the needs of the client and have a positive impact on the wider community in accordance with contractual obligations and the philosophy of ABL.
The post holder, along with the Head of Service and key stakeholders, will play a key part in integrating the service into the wider behaviour change programme across Stockport.
Duties and Key Responsibilities:
- Line manage a delivery team
- Work with stakeholders, commissioners, local residents and service delivery team to drive continuous service improvement and innovation under the ABL Way service improvement framework
- Manage the Smoking Cessation project budget, supported by the Head of Service
- Build and maintain excellent relationship with partners and stakeholder within the specified neighbourhoods within Stockport
- Manage project resource allocation (e.g. equipment etc.)
- Plan and schedule timelines
- Work to align delivery timetables for achieving KPIS and meeting need across the footprints
- Track project deliverables and outcomes according to KPIs
- Contribute to quarterly report with Head of Service for Stockport
- Quality assurance for delivery staff, data and record keeping with support from the Professional Smoking Cessation Lead
- Contribute to integrated governance procedures including clinical governance
- Constantly monitor and report on progress of the project, to present reports defining progress, problems and solutions
- Performance management of appropriate staff
- Contribute to CPD opportunities within ABL
- Analyse and report client feedback and delegate necessary service development actions
- Chair team meetings and attend service development meetings
- Present performance reports pertaining to activity, plan delivery and financial spend to the Portfolio Delivery Board
- Work closely with specialist leads (physical activity, nutrition and healthy weight, smoking, alcohol) embedding recommendations and support for continued governance and quality of delivery for your designated team
- Collect data, evaluate trends and prepare draft of report to the Head of Service as required
- Take a solution focused approach to project planning and address
- Responsibility around recruitment
- Ensuring compliance with NICE Guidelines and NCSCT Standards
- Supporting with innovation and further growth opportunities
Are you:
- An experienced leader in a community health environment,
- Skilled in project management accustomed to using tools and processes to identify project goals, set and manage the schedule, anticipate and identify issues, remove obstacles, delineate responsibility, track task completion, and communicate progress.
- An experienced people manager
- A positive and proactive leader with the ability to motivate, engage and support delivery teams to achieve the highest standards and outcomes.
- A strategic thinker able to foresee and take action to deal with problems and opportunities.
- An adept communicator who adapts the message to fit the needs of the audience.
- Able to build strong relationships fostering trust and cooperation among colleagues, stakeholders, and community leaders,
- Open and motivated by new ideas and perspectives
Do you have the ambition, drive and desire to make a difference?
We are looking to change the lives and improve the wellbeing of the people in Stockport.
Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship; all applicants must have the right to work in the UK at the time of application.
Standard Information
Information Governance
Employees of ABL Health must comply with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998. The post holder must not; either during the course of their employment, or following termination of their employment, disclose any information relating to service users or employees, or of the lawful business practices, of the organisation.
The post holder will be required, when and where appropriate to the role, to comply with the processing of requests under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
The post holder must comply with ABLs policies that protect the information assets of the organisation from unauthorised disclosure, modification, destruction, inappropriate access or use.
The post holder will be responsible for maintaining the clinical and/or corporate records that fall within the remit of this role to the standards in ABLs records management policies, and data quality processes and standards.
Health & Safety
Compliance with the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 the post holder is required to fulfil a proactive role towards the management of risk in all of their actions. This entails the risk assessment of all situations, the taking of appropriate actions and reporting of all incidents, near misses and hazards, and a statutory duty of care for their own personal safety and that of others who may be affected by their acts or omissions.
Safeguarding is Everyones Business
ABL has a responsibility to ensure that all children / young people and adults are adequately safeguarded and protected. As a consequence, all ABLs employees, temporary staff and volunteers are required to adhere to ABLs safeguarding policies / procedures in addition to local and national safeguarding policies and to act upon any concerns in accordance with them.
Smoke Free
ABL is Smoke - Free. Smoking is not permitted on any of our premises or the surrounding land including car parking facilities.
Training
The post holder must attend any training that is identified as mandatory to their role.
The range of duties and responsibilities outlined above are indicative only and are intended to give an overview of the range and type of duties that will be allocated. They are subject to modification in the light of changing service demands and the development requirements of the post holder.
Equality, Diversity & Human Rights
It is the responsibility of every person to act in ways to support equality and diversity and to respect human rights, working within the spirit and detail of legislation including the Equality Act 2010 and the Human Rights Act 1998. ABL is an equal opportunities employer and aims to challenge discrimination, promote equality and respect human rights.
