Head of Service- Smoking Cessation

Your key responsibilities will be You will lead the day-to-day operations, ensuring the service meets its expected KPIs. You will lead the various teams and nurture and upskill each individual while setting service direction through service development plans. You must embed robust governance, health and safety, and administration procedures while ensuring the service uses its resources effectively to fulfil its contractual obligations. This will require working closely with the Divisional Operations Lead and managing the contract with commissioners. You will ensure the service remains people-powered, keeping the service user voice at the heart of everything we do. As Head of Service, your key responsibilities include: Senior and operational leadership of Your Health Bolton Manage the staff and subcontractors. Driving the vision of the service with staff, partners, stakeholders, and commissioners. Working closely with the Weight Management Quality and Improvement lead and the Professional
Lead for Smoking Cessation to drive the outcomes-based service delivery model and achieve specific KPIs regarding weight management, alcohol and smoking. Leading and ensuring active stakeholder engagement to develop an awareness of the service, ensuring that partners develop effective referral pathways into the service and effective referral pathways out of our service to sustain behaviour change and meet other needs. Analyse Internal, local, and national data to impact and direct service outcomes and develop service plans. Foster and encourage innovation with the staff team and partners to ensure the service engages with priority groups, health inclusion groups and priority neighbourhoods. Performance management of the service, ensuring the safe and effective delivery of all services in line with ABLs integrated governance framework. Developing service reports of excellent quality, including contract management, performance reports, social values, case studies and service user and partner
feedback. Representing the organisation and service at local and regional stakeholders, networking and ICS events. Driving service innovation utilising ABLs s continuous improvement system, which includes delivery staff in leading innovation and service development supported by specialist leads. Working with clinical, community, social care, educational, and VCSE partners and statutory stakeholders to deliver safe, effective, person-centred care pathways and, where possible, co-deliver / co-locate to maximise integration and prevent duplication. Work with ABL engagement and communications teams to implement and continuously develop the communications and marketing strategy, service promotion and engagement strategy. Building strategic relationships across the area, developing opportunities to expand ABLs work across the ICS footprint. Skills and Competencies Required An experienced senior leader with experience in delivering an excellent integrated lifestyle and behaviour change service
and understanding of the public health, health and care system. Skilled in project management and 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 Experience in evolving and developing services within a complex health system. A positive and proactive leader who can motivate, engage and support 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 Results orientated, naturally seeking quantitative goals and actively seeking to outperform them.