Work and Health Programme Lead in Brighton

Are you passionate about improving employment outcomes for people facing health-related barriers to work? Can you deliver partnership programmes, bringing together health, employment and community services? Do you have the leadership, operational and performance management skills to create a high achieving team and deliver high-quality services to residents? We're looking for a Work and Health Programme Lead to lead the operational delivery of our WorkWell Programme.

Contract type: This role is fixed term until March 2029. Interviews to be held: 24th or 27th August.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in reducing health and employment inequalities across Brighton & Hove. Working across a complex partnership landscape, you will ensure high-quality programme delivery and support the integration of services helping residents to manage and address health and employment barriers. You will be responsible for the day-to-day operational management of the programme, ensuring compliance with funding requirements and quality standards. You will lead and line manage a team of work and health coaches, develop effective referral pathways, oversee programme performance and reporting, and work closely with health partners, employers, community organisations and council services to integrate employment and health interventions.

You will:

• Have experience leading or managing employment, health or integrated support programmes.
• Have a strong understanding of work and health policy and the barriers faced by people experiencing health inequalities.
• Be experienced in leading staff and creating and facilitating multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality services.
• Be confident managing performance, compliance, reporting and programme outcomes.
• Have experience of building and influencing relationships and working in partnership with health services, employers, community organisations and other stakeholders.
• Be skilled at using data and insight to drive service improvement and inform decision-making.
• Be committed to person-centred, strengths-based and inclusive approaches.

Most importantly, you'll be motivated by improving people's lives and creating opportunities for those facing the greatest barriers to employment.

Encouraging a diverse workforce: Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Why work for us? As a council, we want to be connected, be confident, be innovative and creative, be diverse and inclusive, and be healthy and psychologically safe. For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit our website which gives details of our wellbeing support, our benefits including leave and pensions as well as details of our training and development.

We are keen to hear how your experience and skills align to our values and the skills and experience needed to perform well in our roles with clear real examples from you. We also provide clarity on the skills we are looking for in our adverts and in the job description/person specification attached to each job advert.

Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check. We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work-life balance and team collaboration.