Job responsibilities
Our services deliver high-impact health interventions tailored to local needs:
Stockport and Oldham offer Integrated Lifestyle Services, providing holistic support through Smoking Cessation and Integrated Weight Management programmes.
Wirral and Sefton focus on Smoking Cessation, helping individuals quit smoking through structured, evidence-based support.
Bolton delivers both Smoking Cessation and Tier 2 Weight Management Support, addressing tobacco dependency and healthy weight management.
Were committed to innovation, collaboration, and delivering high-quality care that makes a real difference. If youre enthusiastic about public health and want to be part of a dynamic regional team, wed love to hear from you.
This is a demanding job, but you will not be on your own. ABLs highly experienced and friendly multi-disciplinary team of Health and Social Care professionals, Business Intelligence, Service Development, Governance, Finance and Business Development are there to support. Additionally, existing experienced delivery teams will be available to support you to drive the Service forward.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Engagement & Influence
Build and maintain strong relationships with ICBs, PCNs, local authorities, and voluntary sector partners.
Influence system-level decision-making to prioritise lifestyle services within care pathways.
Represent the organisation at regional forums and strategic planning groups.
Pathway Disruption & Redesign
Identify and analyse existing pathways that can be restructured to include lifestyle interventions.
Co-design new referral pathways with system partners, ensuring they are clinically appropriate, scalable, and sustainable.
Lead pilots and evaluate impact to inform wider rollout.
Referral System Development
Work with digital and clinical teams to embed referral mechanisms into clinical systems (e.g., EMIS, SystmOne).
Ensure pathways are accessible, inclusive, and meet the needs of diverse populations.
Business Development
Identify and pursue opportunities for service growth and innovation across the region.
Develop proposals and business cases to secure funding and investment for new models of care.
Build strategic partnerships that enhance the reach and sustainability of lifestyle services.
Monitoring & Evaluation
Develop KPIs and outcome measures to assess the effectiveness of new pathways.
Report on progress to stakeholders and use data to drive continuous improvement.
Capacity Building
Support training and development for frontline staff to understand and use new pathways.
Share best practice across the region and contribute to national learning.
Line Management of Stakeholder and Engagement Officers across the region
Person Specification
Essential Criteria
Proven experience in system-level engagement and influencing within health and care settings.
Strong understanding of ICB structures, priorities, and commissioning processes.
Demonstrated experience in pathway redesign and service integration.
Track record in business development, including writing proposals and securing funding.
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
Ability to work autonomously and drive change across complex systems.
Knowledge of lifestyle services, prevention models, and population health approaches.
Desirable Criteria
Experience working with digital health systems (e.g., EMIS, SystmOne, NHS Spine).
Familiarity with social prescribing and community-based health models.
Experience in service evaluation and impact reporting.
Understanding of health inequalities and approaches to address them.
Qualifications
Essential
Degree-level qualification in public health, health management, social care, or a related field.
Evidence of continued professional development.
Desirable
Postgraduate qualification in public health, systems leadership, or service design.
Project management certification (e.g., PRINCE2, Agile).
The desire to make a difference
We are looking to change the lives and improve the wellbeing of the people across the North West
Standard Information
Information Governance
Employees of ABL Health must comply with the provisions of GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. The postholder 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 postholder 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 postholder must comply with ABLs policies that protect the information assets of the organisation from unauthorised disclosure, modification, destruction, inappropriate access or use. The postholder 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 postholder 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 postholder 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 postholder.
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
