Title: Operations Manager

Rate: £27.25 per hour

Location: Hybrid - Sand Martin House, Bittern Way, Peterborough, PE2 8TY

Type: Temporary - 4 months

Opus People Solutions are working with Peterborough City Council to recruit for an interim Operation Manager to be responsible for the managerial leadership of the public health directorate business programmes working across the directorate.

• Budget holder for the PCC public heath directorate staffing - required to manage these budgets ensuring compliance with financial targets and offering internal challenge e.g. on staffing and recruitment proposals if these are likely to cause financial risk, completion of monthly forecasting reports.
• To support the Director of Public Health (PCC) in managing and monitoring the PCC staffing and corporate public health directorate budget.
• Lead on the overview and management of the internal Memoruandum of Understanding (MOU) process for allocation of the public health grant to internal council departments.
• Identify potential efficiency savings within the service and recommend action to realise these in order to maintain continuous service improvement.
• Ensure the Director of Public Health is regularly appraised of the financial position in PCC Public Health Directorate and of any spend fluctuations and cost pressures.
• Manage and implement and develop new systems for monitoring additional grants that fall under the Public Health directorate including preparation for audit processes.
• To manage the shared service Section 113 process and associated financial processes.
• Co-ordination of the end of year financial process and completion of budget builds for the directorate across both local authorities advising the Director of Public Health on relevant issues or pressures.
• To be responsible for the co-ordination of the Public Health Directorate Risk Registers and ensure that lines of accountability are clear and well understood and that governance is in place for identification, mitigation and management of risk.
• To ensure risk management processes for operational arm of the public health directorate services are identifying, assessing and managing risk to service users, employees, the organisation and resources arising from the work delivered by the service and these are being fed into the directorate risk register where appropriate.
• To lead on the business continuity plans for the Public Health Directorate working closely with the Corporate Business Continuity team to ensure accurate and effective Business Continuity Plans are in place for Public Health.
• Co-ordinate the Public Health directorates response to corporate business planning processes.
• Know about Health & Safety regulations and to support the Public Health Directorate in any necessary steps that need to be taken.
• To support the Senior Public Health Workforce Development and Programmes Manager in ensuring that appropriate steps are taken to monitor and address EDI within the directorate.