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Director of Public Health at Hertfordshire County Council
Responsible for public health policy strategy, services and partnerships in Hertfordshire; working to improve and protect the health of local citizens
Interested in applying the different dimensions of leadership to deliver real impact and change at a local level
2017 GenerationQ Fellow

Jim McManus has been Director of Public Health at Hertfordshire County Council since 2012. Jim joined public health when becoming a consultant in Public Health was opened to people with backgrounds other than Medicine in the early 2000s.  He took the Faculty of Public Health Diplomate and Membership exams and registered with the UK Public Health Register then was admitted as a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health (www.fph.org.uk)

He is responsible for England’s fifth largest public health system, with a portfolio of 142 workstreams, including drug and alcohol treatment and care, health protection and health improvement services.

Jim is also a prevention lead for the sustainability and transformation plan (STP) footprint. He leads the County Council’s corporate transformation programme in prevention and demand management. He is lead officer for the Council’s Performance Cabinet Panel and champion for disability and faiths on the Equalities Board.

Jim was a Generation Q Fellow and aimed to work to embed the benefits of a prevention approach to all public services in a way that delivers real impact for residents, users and organisations. This will involve a three- to five-year programme of work with a series of quick wins to achieve savings across the system.

Outside work he is a Trustee of a large hospice, St Joseph's in Hackney, one of the oldest and largest in the UK; He was a Trustee of the Notre Dame de France Centre Refugiers (the Notre Dame de France Refugee Centre) in London.

Jim co-chaired the writing group for the national framework for behavioural sciences in Public Health, on behalf of Public Health England and an alliance of 30 professional and learned societies. In 2013 he helped found the national Health Psychology in Public Health Network, which brings together academics and practitioners in health psychology and public health to support each other in improving and protecting the health of the population. That Network then became the Behavioural Science and Public Health Network.

Jim was a Member and Deputy Chair of the National Institute of Health Research Programme Advisory Board for Public Health and one of the National Officers of the Association of Directors of Public Health UK. He was a Visiting Professor in Practice at LSE Health and Social Care, and Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Hertfordshire.  He was a Visiting Research Fellow at Heythrop College, the specialist theology and philosophy college of the University of London. He is currently working towards his doctorate.

In 2011 he was awarded the Good Samaritan Medal for Excellence in Health Care by Pope Benedict XVI.

He is a Chartered Psychologist, Chartered Scientist, Registered Public Health Specialist  and CIPD qualified (Strategic Learning and Development) , with strong interest in organisational psychology and leadership. He has 25 years' equality and diversity leadership experience.

Academic.edu profile https://herts.academia.edu/JimMcManus

You can find copies of Jim's slide presentations for most events here http://www.slideshare.net/jamesgmcmanus

Email: jim.mcmanus@hertfordshire.gov.uk