The Senior Health Promotion & Improvement Officer has responsibility for delivery of agreed programmes of work aligned to Health & Wellbeing strategic priorities, management of staff and financial resources and performance management of their local team in line with HSE policies.

The Senior Health Promotion & Improvement Officer will be responsible for leading a local Health Promotion & Improvement (HP&I) team based within an Integrated Healthcare Area working across both the Integrated Healthcare Area and associated Hospital Group (HG) to ensure the delivery of annual HSE National Service and Operations Plans, and associated local Operations Plans in respect of Health & Wellbeing. These annual plans are informed by priorities set out in a range of government health and wellbeing policy and strategy documents that have been translated into HSE implementation plans including the overarching Health Services Healthy Ireland Implementation Plan, the IHA (former Community Healthcare Organisation) Healthy Ireland Implementation Plan and Hospital Group Implementation Plans aligned to the IHA areas.

The Senior HP&I Officer may also have specific responsibility for, or work in a specialist capacity in relation to, a national priority area taking into account their other responsibilities. They will share in the responsibility for implementing national policy at local level including taking responsibility for a specific CHN through the local teams and for monitoring and performance-management.