Head of Service

2 weeks ago


Bolton, United Kingdom ABL Health Full time

JOB DESCRIPTION: Head of Service - Weight Management and Wellbeing
Services (North of England)

J**ob Title: Head of Service - Weight Management and Wellbeing Services**

**(North of England)**

**Location: Bolton with travel to Oldham, Stockport, and Lincolnshire**

**Salary: £40,000 to £45,000**

**Hours: Full Time**

**Type of Contract: Fixed term for 12 months to cover maternity leave. With an opportunity for a permanent role across the company.**

**Accountable/Responsible to: Divisional Operations Lead**

**Staff Accountable to Postholder: Deputy Head of Service and Project leads**

ABL is an exciting fast-paced, growing community health organization. As an experienced, CQC-registered provider of community health services, we are passionate about delivering evidence-based, innovative, effective, and relevant healthcare services in partnership with individuals, communities, and stakeholders.

We are a values-driven organization dedicated to reducing health inequalities and improving people’s lives. We would love to hear from you if you would like the opportunity to work with a close team of committed professionals and if you share our values of designing and delivering health services that are:
**Role Purpose**:
You will lead the Weight Management and Wellbeing services (Oldham Stockport, Lincolnshire) day-to-day operations to provide an outstanding service to people who wish to lose weight, move more, drink less alcohol, or stop smoking.

The service will be easily accessible and provide individuals with high-quality, evidence-based support and advice.

Engagement with the local community leaders, health professionals, and key stakeholders will form a significant part of the role, enabling the health inequality messages to be heard and allowing priority groups to benefit from the service.

Services Quality and Improvement Lead and be directly line-managed by the Divisional Operations Leads.

You will be a motivated, passionate, organized, and proactive leader with significant experience in weight management, public health, and managing delivery teams. ABL takes a strength-focused asset-based approach to community delivery, looking to innovate, partner, and enhance local delivery. The role will require dynamic leadership which embraces the vision and values we wish to establish for each Service around community engagement, behaviour change, and reducing health inequalities.

This is a demanding job, but you will not be alone. ABL’s highly experienced, friendly multi-disciplinary team of Health and Social Care Professionals, Business Intelligence, Service Development, Governance, Finance, and Business development, as well as existing experienced delivery teams, will be available to support you to drive the Service forward.

**Your key responsibilities will be**:
You will lead the day-to-day operations ensuring each 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 will be required to embed robust governance, health and safety, and administration procedures whilst ensuring each service has the resource to fulfil its contractual obligations. This will require working closely with the Divisional Operations
Lead and managing each contract with commissioners. You will ensure each service remains people-powered keeping the patient voice at the heart of everything we do.

As Head of Service - Weight Management and Wellbeing Services (North of England) your key responsibilities include:

- Senior and operational leadership of the Oldham, Stockport, and Lincolnshire services.
- Manage the Project Leads and contracts across the above services.
- Driving the vision of each service with staff, partners, stakeholders, and commissioners.
- Working closely with the Weight Management Quality and Improvement lead to drive the outcomes-based service delivery model and achieve KPIs.
- Leading and ensuring active stakeholder engagement to develop an awareness of the service, ensuring that partners develop effective referral pathways.
- 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 and priority wards/areas.
- Performance management of the service, ensuring the safe and effective delivery of all service delivery in line with ABL’s integrated governance framework.
- Developing service reports of excellent quality, including contract management and performance reports.
- Representing the organization and service at local and regional stakeholder and networking events.
- Driving service innovation utilizing ABL’s 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 st



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