Work & Health - Deputy Secretary
Paddy Rooney is the current Deputy Secretary for the Work & Health Group in the Department for Communities, Northern Ireland.
The Work & Health Group consists of four Directorates with the primary aim of delivering an accessible, supportive social security system and the promotion of work, wellbeing and fairness.
The Group has responsibility for providing financial stability; to build people’s confidence; and the provision of pathways and programmes to help, support and encourage people to get closer to work, back to work, stay in work and to progress in work.
The Group plays an important role in contributing to the Department’s work and in delivering a new outcome based approach as part of the new Programme for Government (PfG). This presents the opportunity to not only enhance the services we currently deliver but also to think differently in designing services that meet the needs of citizens.