NHS
Project Manager Healthy Places
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Job Description
- Req#: F0116-25-0005?language=en&page=80&sort=publicationDateDesc
- Experience of successful delivery of multi-agency projects to time and within budget
- Proven experience in the successful management and delivery of complex projects
- Experience of managing project teams and motivating others
- Experience of commissioning public health services
- N/A
- Experience of successful delivery of multi-agency projects to time and within budget
- Proven experience in the successful management and delivery of complex projects
- Experience of managing project teams and motivating others
- Experience of commissioning public health services
- N/A
Job summary
Please apply on the Leicester City Council website, any applications on this site will not be considered.
We are looking to recruit an experienced Public Health practitioner, with knowledge of procurement and managing projects, for a 12-month fixed term Project Manager Post in Public Health.
Mental health is a public health issue. No other health condition matches mental illness in the combined extent of prevalence, persistence and breadth of impact. The key purpose of the Project Manager is to contribute to the promotion of positive mental health and wellbeing in Leicester through the development and implementation of specific public mental health initiatives.
Addressing inequality in health is an is important to the local authority, and social and economic inequality is a major determinant of mental illness which underlies other risk factors.
Main duties of the job
As a Project Manager youll be part of a team focussing on prevention of mental illness and promotion of mental health across the life course in Leicester. Improving mental health helps to reduce inequalities, improve physical health, reduce health-risk behaviour, increase life expectancy, social functioning and quality of life. The benefits of protecting and promoting mental health are felt across generations.
Youll be working Monday to Friday, 37 hours per week full time hybrid working, including at City Hall, Charles Street Leicester. A typical day will be working with the Mental Health and the wider Public Health teams. Other contacts will include community organisations ,service providers, officers in procurement, legal affairs and finance. Youll be expected to contribute business cases, solve problems concerning different aspects of commissioning and project delivery.
About us
What we can offer you
As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can lookforward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. Youll enjoy generousannual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexibleworking. Well also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of trainingand development opportunities. In addition, you can choose froma number offlexible benefits,including discounts on city buses and trains. Foran illustrative value of your benefits package,take a look at ourbenefits calculator.
Join us
Were committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build acouncil that is fitting and representative of our great city. Thats why weve designed ourrecruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you.Well do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with yourapplication,take a look at the our approach to recruitment page.
Details
Date posted
08 July 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
£41,511 to £44,711 a year Total benefit value: £60,804.45
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
12 months
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number
F0116-25-0005
Job locations
115 Charles Street
Leicester
LE1 1FZ
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Job responsibilities
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Job responsibilities
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Experience
Essential
Desirable
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Qualifications
Essential
Employer details
Employer name
Leicester City Council
Address
115 Charles Street
Leicester
LE1 1FZ
Employer's website
Employer details
Employer name
Leicester City Council
Address
115 Charles Street
Leicester
LE1 1FZ
Employer's website
About the company
National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.
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