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Team: Public Health

Job Family: Advising, CBG11

Salary: £36,554.00 - £39,707.00 per annum, pro rata

Hours: Full time, 37 hours per week

Location: Working from home and any CBC offices, including Priory House, Shefford. You will be expected to attend a CBC office location on a monthly basis, and as needed to carry out your role

Contract Type: Hybrid - Fixed Term for 12 Months (Maternity Cover)

Closing Date: Sunday 26th February 2023

Interview Date: Thursday 2nd March 2023

About Us

Central Bedfordshire is an ambitious authority, determined to be an exemplary one. Our strategic location and high quality of life mean we are one of the fastest growing areas in the country.

As a council we face the same challenges every business does - investing in the right places and delivering great results. Except for us, it’s all about our 289,000 residents. We’re totally focussed on helping to improve their lives and making Central Bedfordshire a great place to live and work.

This is a great time to join us on our journey.

More about the role

This is a high-profile role working with a range of key internal and external partners to support the development, delivery and coordination of strategies to prevent and minimise harms from drugs and alcohol across 3 Local Authority Areas: Central Bedfordshire, Bedford Borough and Milton Keynes.

The role requires.

• Strong system leadership and partnership working, including influencing other organisations and agencies to increase their engagement with health and wellbeing, ill health prevention and health inequalities.

• Working knowledge and experience of key public health concepts such as epidemiology, data interpretation, evaluation, delivering and monitoring cost effective and evidence-based interventions.

• Supporting the effective commissioning of services, including needs assessment, specifying service outcomes and performance management

This role will have a focus on vulnerable and complex groups and take a system wide approach that improves outcomes for people who are for example, involved in the criminal justice system, have poor mental health, are unemployed or homeless. Other areas of responsibility will include reducing the harms to children and young people from drugs and alcohol and other related areas as identified by local need and in line with national policy.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Coordination of cross partnership activity to reduce harms from drug and alcohol among children and young people (aligned to the Combatting Drug, Violence and Exploitation Drug Delivery plan)
• Commissioning and performance management support for the young people’s Drug and Alcohol Services
• Supporting the Public Health Principal in the management of the Rough Sleeper Drug and Alcohol Treatment Grants, monitoring activity across commissioned services and reporting
• Oversight of the alcohol licensing application review process for Bedford Borough, Central Bedfordshire & Milton Keynes
• Planning and coordination of drug and alcohol communication campaigns
• Supporting pathway development between drug and alcohol services and Criminal Justice partners (i.e., prison, probation)
• Partnership working and collaboration with key partners across the ‘recovery system’ to improve outcomes for residents.

Qualifications and Experience

To meet the requirements of the role, the suitable candidate will have:

• Degree level or equivalent level of knowledge gained through courses and relevant experience.
• Experience of working with a range of external organisations to achieve specific objectives.
• Experience of multi-agency working across organisational boundaries.
• Experience of commissioning and performance management.
• Experience of influencing and achieving without direct management.
• Experience of working effectively both within a team and independently.
• Experience of project management.
• Ability to prioritise work and meet deadlines – managing own workload and delegating as appropriate.
• Sound understanding of the requirements of working in a local authority.
• A good knowledge and understanding of other groups/service areas of the Council, the NHS, and statutory and voluntary sectors.
• Experience of working effectively within a team.
• The ability to prioritise work and meet deadlines.
• The ability to be flexible and adaptable, planning effectively and responding to changing circumstances.

Please demonstrate in your application how your previous experience meets the requirements of the role listed above and those detailed in the role profile.

What we can offer you

As well as joining a friendly, dedicated, and hardworking team you will have access to numerous benefits, including:

• A hybrid working arrangement giving you the option to work from home and access any CBC office location. We recognise and value the importance of supporting our employees to balance their home and work life and to be able to work in the most efficient way.
• A £250 one-off hybrid worker payment to help you adapt your home for safe and suitable working conditions
• A comprehensive IT package to support you to work safely and effectively
• The ability to work abroad for up to a month a year
• Generous family friendly policies and practices
• A welcoming and inclusive environment that empowers differences
• Friendly and supportive staff networks
• Annual leave allowance 24 days + statutory holidays rising to 31 days with length of service.
• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS). This is a valuable part of our rewards package for employees and includes Life Assurance. You can find out more on the Bedfordshire Pension Fund website.
• An exceptional Employee Assistance Programme which helps support employees with workplace changes as well as other work, family and personal issues
• A huge variety of courses and role-specific training and learning to help you succeed and develop
• Access to discounts on top UK retailers and local retailers

Central Bedfordshire Council has its own vision and values that are integral to everything we do. Our area vision is to make Central Bedfordshire 'A great place to live and work’.

We have set values and principles to represent the way we work and how we operate as an organisation. You can view a list of these in detail on our website.

Our aspiration is to be a truly flexible employer. We welcome discussion on location, hours and working pattern as part of the application process.

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You will be expected to demonstrate how you meet the key accountabilities and competencies detailed within this Recruitment Pack

For an informal discussion about this position, please contact: Charlotte Ball at: [email protected]

For queries related to the recruitment of this vacancy, please contact: The Recruitment Team at: [email protected]

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Central Bedfordshire Council is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to improving the diversity of our workforce to better reflect the communities we serve. Therefore we welcome applications from everyone. In addition we are a Disability Confident employer, we are working to become a Disability Confident leader in our community.

To maintain a fair and consistent approach for applicants, it is Central Bedfordshire Council's policy to only consider applications made via our online application system and we therefore thank you for not submitting your application offline.

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