Service Manager Health Improvement

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The post-holder provides leadership for the development of health improvement strategies and activities with the overall aim of improving health and reducing health inequalities in line with national and local priorities and needs, including substance use, health inequalities, mental health and wellbeing and health promotion settings.

Our Partnership is working together to transform services and improve outcomes for people and has been focused on the delivery of a number of key redesigns.

This is an exciting time to join the Partnership on our journey towards greater integration of services.

The Clackmannanshire & Stirling Health & Social Care Partnership is one of the 31 Partnerships across Scotland with responsibility for the strategic planning and commissioning of a range of community health and social care services for adults. Our vision for the Partnership is to enable people in the Clackmannanshire & Stirling Health & Social Care Partnership area to live full and positive lives within supportive communities.

The Partnership is between Clackmannanshire Council, NHS Forth Valley and Stirling Council and has a budget of over £180m. Services operate across three planning localities.

Just a 30-minute drive from Edinburgh and Glasgow, Clackmannanshire and Stirling are easily accessible with beautiful environments to promote wellbeing. We offer flexible benefits and working arrangements, along with a culture which is committed to learning, improving and growing.

Ability and willingness to travel throughout the area of service delivery is essential for this post.

The duties of this post require the successful candidate to be a member of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme. More information on this scheme can be found at

If this challenge is something you can deliver on, we would be interested to hear from you.

For informal enquires please contact Wendy Forrest, Head of Strategic Planning & Health Improvement, Clackmannanshire & Stirling Health and Social Care Partnership on View email address on apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk

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