Assistant Director of Public Health

To apply for this role please upload your CV together with a supporting statement that provides evidence of how you meet the essential requirements of the person specification.

Please also include details of your education and training and employment history and any reference to your qualifications that are specified on the person specification within your CV/supporting statement.

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Public Health within Tameside MBC. This role will provide strategic leadership both within Public Health as well as across the council and wider system, alongside the Director of Public Health. This role sits on the Senior Leadership Team for the council.

The Assistant Director of Public Health will support the Council and the wider Integrated Care System to transform services at scale, reduce inequalities and co-produce new ways of working informed by the best available evidence. The responsibilities of this role will be wide-ranging, including some specific areas of leadership within the Public Health team including some areas of health improvement, healthcare public health and intelligence. It will also play a crucial role in the developing Neighbourhood model for Tameside under the Live Well programme, working closely with the Director of Public Health, Director of Adults and other key colleagues and partners to deliver this.

It is a very exciting time to join Tameside council, with a lot of positive change taking place and new investment in public health, which gives us the opportunity to go even further to make a difference for our residents and the health outcomes and inequalities across the borough.

The role will have a strong focus on partnership working across a range of services within the council, and external agencies in the NHS, other statutory partners and the voluntary, community, faith & social enterprise sector. Additional lead responsibilities include financial management of public health budgets, business planning, performance and commissioning.

About You

We are seeking an appropriately qualified public health professional with excellent problem solving, communication, political and technical skills who has the energy and drive to make a major contribution to improving health and reducing inequalities in Tameside.

The role requires a cross-council as well as multiagency partnership approach, and you will be expected to have strong relationship and partnership skills. A high level of intellectual rigour, political awareness, negotiation and motivation skills and flexibility are required as well as the ability to communicate effectively within diverse settings. Tact, diplomacy and leadership is required and an ability to understand other cultures, advise, challenge and advocate to enable effective working across organisational boundaries and influencing without direct authority.

This will be a great role for applicants with relevant existing experience at Consultant level, who may be looking to take the next step in their career.

About Us

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.

Our employees' skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

This position is subject to Basic Disclosure Procedures.

This is a politically restricted post.

Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.

We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.

For further information about this role please email or telephone James Mallion, Director of Public Health, on or .

Closing date: 18 July 2025.