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SalaryThe government has announced new funding to support current smokers to quit smoking, with £70 million additional funding per year for local authority-led stop smoking services (SSS) and support.
West Sussex County Council Public Health (WSCC PH) will be receiving approximately £1.075 million for 2024/25, ring-fenced for smoking cessation. Although the exact amount for each subsequent year is yet to be determined, this funding is expected to continue until 2028/29.
The Opportunity
Salary: £30,296 to £33,024 per annum
Working Pattern: Full time, 37 hours per week
Location: Northleigh, County Hall, Chichester and hybrid working from home
Interview date: w/c 10 June 2024
Do you have extensive project management experience? Able to work accurately and proactively to deliver high quality projects? We are currently seeking a Public Health Programme Support Officer to join our Smoking Cessation Team.
As the Public Health Programme Support Officer, you will be a key member of the Tobacco and Smoking Cessation Team, dealing with a complex range of issues in a fast-paced environment. This will include working on a range of projects to support the delivery of the tobacco control agenda and of the Local Stop Smoking Services and to support grant ambitions and targets, for example, commissioning, business planning, communications campaigns, pathway development and stakeholder engagement.
The role will often include providing time-limited input to the implementation of a new work stream, or to phase out existing projects under supervision. This work will often involve aspects of project managing the implementation of evidence-based interventions including liaising with stakeholders, drafting of service specifications and ensuring documents are drawn up and monitoring systems for reporting them are in place.
What are we looking for?
In order to be our successful Programme Support Officer, you will:
- Be able to work quickly, accurately and proactively to deliver high quality project management support to the Public Health Lead for Tobacco Control and the Advanced Public Health Practitioner for the smoking cessation programme, across a variety of tobacco and smoking topics.
- Be required to analyse varied and complex information and statistics, so focus and attention to detail are requisite.
- Be expected to use your initiative to make informed decisions when unanticipated problems are presented, for example producing recommendations which may be amended by a senior manager.
- Ensure that matters are dealt with efficiently and appropriately, prioritising your workload in order to respond.
At times, you may be dealing with highly sensitive matters and confidentiality will be essential.
For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.
Working for us
As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this we want to help support your development and provide an great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:
- an excellent local government pension scheme
- generous holiday entitlement of 27 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
- a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
- maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
- volunteering opportunities
- training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
- a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our Staff discounts page if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
- health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans
For a full list this can be found at our Rewards and Benefits page.
Further information
The reference number for this role is CAFHE05127.
For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact Greg Cooper (Advanced Public Health Practitioner - Smoking Programme) at . For issues or queries regarding your application please contact .
To apply, please follow the links below to upload your CV and Cover Letter. In your cover letter please outline your motivations for applying and explain the skills and experience you can bring to the role (please refer to the key skills) ensuring that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV.
Please answer the following questions in your cover letter and these will be used to shortlist applications; (please refer to the job description)
- What skills and values do you have that will enable you to be successful in this role?
- How do you ensure the projects you manage are effective?
- What experience do you have collating, using and analysing data for different purposes?
- When making decisions or recommendations, what factors might you need to consider?
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