Substance Misuse Programme Manager

Contractual hours: 37 Package: We are pleased to offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your wellbeing. You can read about them on our Why work for us pages., This is an exciting opportunity to play a leading role in improving outcomes for people affected by drug and alcohol harms in Brighton & Hove, at an important time. This is a permanent role given the importance of substance misuse and addiction in the city. This is a senior, strategic, commissioning and public health role at a crucial time, weaving in wider determinants of health, diversity, and trauma informed, preventative approaches. As Programme Manager for Substance Misuse, you will take on a senior strategic and commissioning leadership role within the Public Health team. You will help drive transformation across prevention, treatment, recovery, harm reduction and partnership working, ensuring that our services remain high-quality, inclusive and responsive to the needs of our residents. If you are passionate about improving outcomes for people affected by drug and alcohol harm; you thrive in diverse, dynamic and complex areas; and you bring experience in commissioning and strategic leadership, we would love to hear from you. There is full information about the role below and attached but, if you would like an informal discussion, please contact the DPH - About the role 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. Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our actions, our and the work we are doing to Why work for us? As a council, we want to:

• be connected
• be confident
• be innovative and creative
• be diverse and inclusive
• be healthy and psychologically safe
  
  Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.
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. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.