Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: Grade I. Scale 35 - £46,142 to Scale 39 - £50,269 with a professional bar at Scale 37 - £48,226**
Hours Per Week: 36
Base Location: Tameside One, Market Place, Ashton-under-Lyne, OL6 6BH
Assessment Date: 14th October 2026
Join our ambitious Public Health Team and help improve health, wellbeing and opportunity for residents across Tameside and Greater Manchester.
About Tameside
Tameside is a borough on the east side of Greater Manchester, with a proud industrial heritage, a strong sense of community across its nine towns, and rich environmental assets, including canals, rivers and access to the natural beauty of the moors and Peak District. We recognise that health is shaped by the wider determinants of health and are committed to ensuring that all residents have the opportunity to live healthy, fulfilling lives. Through neighbourhood-based approaches, prevention, and our leadership of the Greater Manchester Live Well agenda in Tameside, we work with communities and partners to reduce inequalities and improve outcomes for those who need support most.
Why Join Us?
This is an exciting time to join Tameside. As part of Greater Manchester, one of the UK's leading areas for devolution, public service reform and population health innovation, we are helping to shape new approaches to improving health and wellbeing. Tameside benefits from strong local partnerships and close collaboration across Greater Manchester, creating opportunities to influence change at both borough and system level. Located just minutes from Manchester city centre and with excellent access to the Peak District and wider North West, Tameside offers the benefits of working within a major city-region while remaining closely connected to vibrant local communities.
About Public Health in Tameside
The Public Health Team plays a central role in improving population health and reducing health inequalities across Tameside. Working alongside Council services; the NHS and healthcare services; education settings; voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise organisations; and local residents; we tackle some of the borough's most significant health challenges. Alongside our statutory public health responsibilities, we lead a diverse portfolio including the Live Well programme, domestic abuse and gender-based violence services, leisure services, and our in-house health improvement service, enabling us to influence a wide range of factors affecting health and wellbeing and deliver a truly whole-system approach to improving outcomes.
We are a highly regarded and influential team with strong relationships across Greater Manchester and beyond, working closely with local, regional and national partners. Our dedicated community engagement function ensures local voices shape priorities and decisions, while our strong focus on evidence and intelligence helps us target action where it can have the greatest impact. Through collaboration, innovation and continuous learning, we are helping to deliver the shared ambitions of the Council.
Our team culture is supportive, trusted, and optimistic. Colleagues value the strong team ethos, variety of work and opportunities for continuing professional development, while thriving in an environment where they can influence change and make a meaningful difference to local communities. We are looking for people who are passionate about improving outcomes, committed to tackling inequalities, and driven to champion the voices and experiences of the residents we serve as we work together to create a healthier, fairer future for Tameside.
The Role
The Public Health Programme Manager will provide programme leadership, strategic coordination and partnership working to improve health outcomes and reduce inequalities across Tameside.
This role has a particular focus on children and young people's health and sexual and reproductive health. The postholder will lead and support programmes that contribute to giving children the best start in life, supporting healthy development, improving wellbeing and reducing inequalities across the life course.
Working collaboratively across the Council, NHS Greater Manchester, education settings, voluntary and community organisations and commissioned providers, you will lead the development, implementation and evaluation of evidence-based programmes that improve outcomes for residents.
You will play a key role in commissioning, performance management, service improvement and partnership governance, ensuring programmes are responsive to local need and deliver measurable impact. The role will utilise data, intelligence, research and evaluation to inform decision making and support continuous improvement.
As a member of the Public Health team, you will contribute to delivery of the Tameside Corporate Plan and wider system priorities, helping to create healthier communities and improve opportunities for residents to live healthy, active and fulfilling lives.
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 post is classified as being in a professional job category. As such the grade for the job has a professional grade development bar which employees can progress through subject to meeting the following criteria:
1. Relevant professional qualification for the job role at Level 6 or above, AND
2. Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience in the role, AND
3. Maintained membership of a regulated body where this is a requirement to practice in the role where applicable, AND
4. Professional standards practised to the highest expected level.
If you have completed the GM Elevate (Leadership Development) Programme, please indicate this within the 'About You' or 'Supporting Statement' section of your application.
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.
Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here
We have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel. Please click here for more information on our guaranteed assessment scheme.
For a discussion about the role, please email or telephone Anne Whittington, Consultant in Public Health, [email protected] / 07971 117 006.
