ABL Health
Healthy Lifestyles Programme Lead
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ABL Health - Healthy Lifestyle Service Leader
ABL Health delivers the Healthy Lifestyle service in Gloucestershire, commissioned by Gloucestershire County Council. This transformative service works collaboratively with communities to transform the lives of the local population. The service supports residents to help them lose weight, stop smoking, reduce alcohol consumption, get more active and improve their wellbeing – all embedded in sustainable behaviour change. The service also delivers the Healthy Beginnings programme supporting families with healthy lifestyles through pregnancy to child’s second birthday, as well as the Healthy Workplace award scheme and the Tobacco Dependency Outreach Service.
Role Purpose
This is a leadership role where the post holder will have a real influence on the clinical and operational excellence of the service. The post holder will take a proactive lead in building relationships, partnerships and alliances in the community, secondary care, and primary care settings, and supporting specialist advisors to deliver outcomes that benefit clients referred to the service. They will be responsible for the line management of staff working across Gloucestershire.
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The post holder must have extensive knowledge and hands-on experience in public health or behaviour-change settings.
Skills and Competencies Required
- An experienced senior leader with experience in delivering excellent healthy lifestyle services across community settings.
- Skilled in project management 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 with the ability to 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 including clients, staff, volunteers, and partner agencies.
- Results-oriented and naturally seeks quantitative goals and actively seeks to outperform them.
- An experienced health practitioner with a knowledge of smoking cessation, weight management, or similar.
- Be able to build strong relationships, foster trust, and cooperation among colleagues and stakeholders.
- Be quality-driven; naturally seek high standards and actively seek to improve them.
- Value and remain open to new ideas and perspectives.
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Employee Benefits
- Birthday Day off
- Flexible Annual Leave scheme
- Employee Referral scheme
- 37.5 hours working week
- Flu jabs
- Blue Light Card
- Cycle to work scheme
- Leadership and staff away days
- Training and Development
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