Tobacco Control & Smoking Cessation Programme Lead
Posted 24 days ago
- Hinckley, Leicestershire
- Any
- External
- Expires In 2 months
Job Title: Tobacco Control & Smoking Cessation Programme Lead
Contract Length: 6 month initial interim contract
Location: Midlands based Local Authority
Pay rate: £500 per day
IR35 Status: Outside of IR35
A new public health opportunity for a local authority in the Midlands to support with the strategic development and delivery of the councils Tobacco Control and Smoking Cessation Programme.
Baltimore are excited to be working with this client exclusively, offering an initial 6 month contract for the successful candidate, along with hybrid working with a requirement to be on site once a month
With interviews scheduled for the first week of June, should you be interested please reach out to James Withington in the local government team on (phone number removed) or contact at (url removed)
Your duties as Programme Lead:
Provide additional capacity and resource to the public health directorate around local and regional objectives relating to Stop Smoking, Tobacco Control and Smoking Cessation.
Leading on the CLeaR assessment model and working with colleagues, you will develop a new smoking strategy for the council in partnership with internal and external stakeholders.
With a hands on and engaged approach, you will lead on the council’s Tobacco Control and Smoking Cessation programmes, working with colleagues across public health and commissioning to understand current pathway effectiveness and make recommendations accordingly.
Within this programme of work you will across multiple key areas including ‘Swap to Stop’ schemes, ‘Smoke-free Generation’ tobacco control plans as well as the ‘Lung Health’ agenda in relation to health colleagues.
Finally, you will support the directorate in relation to NHS health checks in relation to the smoking agenda, mainly falling within workplace health checks.
Experience needed in this role:
The successful candidate will come from an established public health background, either operating as a past Public Health Specialist or professional, with experience of leading on programmes and commissioning.
Alternatively, this role may be ideal to a successful Public Health Programme Manager, with a thorough understanding of health protection in relation to this subject matter.
Have demonstrable experience and knowledge expertise of smoking cessation and tobacco control agenda within a local government setting.
An ability to work effectively with internal and external stakeholders; including junior staff members, colleagues within commissioning as well as partners within health.
Be a strong communicator with an understanding of other public sector organisations cultures, structures and policies.
Able to provide minimum two years worth of references.If you are interested in this opportunity or know a colleague that may be suitable, please contact me ASAP for more information.
Alternatively, if this role doesn’t match your skill set and you’re proactively looking for a new assignment, please either send an updated version of your CV or contact me on (phone number removed) today and I’d be delighted to put you in contact with the most relevant, specialist consultant.
(We offer a senior referral scheme upon successful placement of your recommendation so please do get in contact)
Baltimore Consulting Group is an Executive & Senior Appointments Specialist. We provide pivotal recruitment consultancy services to public sector clients across the whole UK marketplace. I personally recruit within the Health and Social Care Market so if this role is not of interest but you would like to discuss other market opportunities, please get in touch.
Our clients are passionate about creating and evolving a diverse workforce and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant. Recruiting decisions are based on your experience and skills. Any reasonable adjustments in the workplace will be fully supported during the application and hiring process
Contract Length: 6 month initial interim contract
Location: Midlands based Local Authority
Pay rate: £500 per day
IR35 Status: Outside of IR35
A new public health opportunity for a local authority in the Midlands to support with the strategic development and delivery of the councils Tobacco Control and Smoking Cessation Programme.
Baltimore are excited to be working with this client exclusively, offering an initial 6 month contract for the successful candidate, along with hybrid working with a requirement to be on site once a month
With interviews scheduled for the first week of June, should you be interested please reach out to James Withington in the local government team on (phone number removed) or contact at (url removed)
Your duties as Programme Lead:
Provide additional capacity and resource to the public health directorate around local and regional objectives relating to Stop Smoking, Tobacco Control and Smoking Cessation.
Leading on the CLeaR assessment model and working with colleagues, you will develop a new smoking strategy for the council in partnership with internal and external stakeholders.
With a hands on and engaged approach, you will lead on the council’s Tobacco Control and Smoking Cessation programmes, working with colleagues across public health and commissioning to understand current pathway effectiveness and make recommendations accordingly.
Within this programme of work you will across multiple key areas including ‘Swap to Stop’ schemes, ‘Smoke-free Generation’ tobacco control plans as well as the ‘Lung Health’ agenda in relation to health colleagues.
Finally, you will support the directorate in relation to NHS health checks in relation to the smoking agenda, mainly falling within workplace health checks.
Experience needed in this role:
The successful candidate will come from an established public health background, either operating as a past Public Health Specialist or professional, with experience of leading on programmes and commissioning.
Alternatively, this role may be ideal to a successful Public Health Programme Manager, with a thorough understanding of health protection in relation to this subject matter.
Have demonstrable experience and knowledge expertise of smoking cessation and tobacco control agenda within a local government setting.
An ability to work effectively with internal and external stakeholders; including junior staff members, colleagues within commissioning as well as partners within health.
Be a strong communicator with an understanding of other public sector organisations cultures, structures and policies.
Able to provide minimum two years worth of references.If you are interested in this opportunity or know a colleague that may be suitable, please contact me ASAP for more information.
Alternatively, if this role doesn’t match your skill set and you’re proactively looking for a new assignment, please either send an updated version of your CV or contact me on (phone number removed) today and I’d be delighted to put you in contact with the most relevant, specialist consultant.
(We offer a senior referral scheme upon successful placement of your recommendation so please do get in contact)
Baltimore Consulting Group is an Executive & Senior Appointments Specialist. We provide pivotal recruitment consultancy services to public sector clients across the whole UK marketplace. I personally recruit within the Health and Social Care Market so if this role is not of interest but you would like to discuss other market opportunities, please get in touch.
Our clients are passionate about creating and evolving a diverse workforce and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant. Recruiting decisions are based on your experience and skills. Any reasonable adjustments in the workplace will be fully supported during the application and hiring process
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