Public Health Programme Manager - Domestic Abuse

Could you lead the change that helps prevent domestic abuse, improves lives and creates safer communities across North East Lincolnshire?

We are offering an exciting opportunity to join our ambitious and high-performing Public Health Team as a Public Health Programme Manager (Domestic Abuse). The role sits at the heart of our place-based system and will play a critical role in improving outcomes for victims and survivors, strengthening prevention activity and supporting a whole-system response to domestic abuse

We're looking for a strategic and influential leader to drive forward our strategic domestic abuse agenda, shape future services and deliver meaningful change for people affected by domestic abuse across North East Lincolnshire.

If you thrive on collaboration, partnership working and influencing change across organisations, and bring experience from public health, domestic abuse, or a related field, and want to make a difference, we'd love to hear from you.

This is an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of shaping and leading our strategic domestic abuse agenda across North East Lincolnshire. Alongside this, you will also lead on our women's health agenda and tackling wider health inequalities.

What's the role all about?

As our Public Health Programme Manager (Domestic Abuse), you'll champion and drive forward our high-profile domestic abuse agenda through a public health approach. You will lead the development and delivery of North East Lincolnshire's Domestic Abuse Strategy, driving a whole-system response that strengthens prevention and early intervention, improves support and outcomes for victims and survivors. You will ensure our approach is informed by intelligence and insights, including lived experience and our work is guided by national policy and evidence of what works.

Working across a complex partnership landscape, you will influence policy, strategy, commissioning and service development, ensuring services meet local need and deliver meaningful outcomes for individuals and communities.

You will work with partners across health, housing, community safety, criminal justice, children's and adult services, and the voluntary and community sector to ensure delivery of a coordinated response to domestic abuse and drive lasting system-wide change.

Alongside this, you will provide leadership for the women's health agenda, helping to improve outcomes and reduce health inequalities for women across North East Lincolnshire.

What will your day look like?

This is a varied and highly influential role where you'll combine transformational leadership, strategic thinking, programme management and partnership working.

You may be working to bring partners together to develop new approaches to prevention and interventions or determine strategic or commissioning priorities.You could also be analysing key intelligence, performance and evidence to gauge impact of our domestic abuse arrangements, and inform future developments.

You'll lead and coordinate commissioning activity, contract management and work with providers and partners to ensure services are high-quality and achieving positive outcomes.

You will provide expert advice and briefings to senior leaders, elected members, the Domestic Abuse Partnership Board and other relevant Boards and key stakeholder.

You'll also play a key role in developing governance arrangements, monitoring progress against strategic priorities and identifying opportunities for service improvement and innovation

Alongside this, you'll lead work across the women's health agenda, as a key member of our Women's Health Group, helping to improve outcomes and reduce inequalities for women across North East Lincolnshire

Who are we looking for?

We're looking for a strategic and inspirational leader who can provide visible leadership, and bring partners together to develop and deliver on a shared vision,

We welcome applications from candidates with experience in domestic abuse services, public health, safeguarding, health and care, community safety or other related area.

We're particularly interested in someone who:

• Has significant experience in strategy development, and delivering complex programmes of work or services across a partnership landscape.

• Can influence and lead across organisational boundaries.

• Can build strong partnerships, inspire collaboration and bring stakeholders together to deliver shared outcomes.

• Has experience of commissioning, service development, and contract management.

• Can provide expert advice and influence decision-making across other organisations and fields.

• Can evaluate intelligence, lived experience and evidence and translate into policy and practice.

• Can establish and lead robust programme management arrangements that drive delivery, accountability and continuous improvement.

• Understands the importance of trauma-informed practice to improving outcomes for victims and survivors.

A degree in a relevant subject area is essential, and ideally, you will hold a master’s qualification, or working towards it. We also recognise the value of significant relevant experience and equivalent professional expertise.

Why join us?

You'll be joining a supportive, forward thinking and ambitious Public Health team, leading a high-profile programme of work. Working alongside committed partners, your leadership will ensure strategic alignment of this cross-cutting agenda and delivery of lasting change for individuals and families.

This is your chance to provide transformational leadership, champion an important agenda and help to create safer communities in across North East Lincolnshire.

For more information please contact:

Diane Halton via Diane.Halton@nelincs.gov.uk

Key Dates

• Interviews – 4th November

We want you to have the best interview experience with us, so will provide candidates selected for interview their questions 24 hours in advance of meeting us.

Check out our NELC Benefits brochure attached for more information on the brilliant benefits available working at North East Lincolnshire Council!

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