Public Health Lead

1 week ago


Chichester, United Kingdom WSCC Full time

**The Opportunity** Salary**:£56,713 to £59,946 per annum

**Working Pattern**:Full time, 37 hours per week

**Contract Type**:1-year Fixed term or Secondment opportunity to 16 June 2025

**Location**:County Hall, Chichester and working remotely, includes county-wide travel

**Interview date**:4 & 7 June 2024

As the Public Health Lead Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Reduction and Health Improvement, you will lead a portfolio of work to improve the health and wellbeing of people in West Sussex and ensure the best use of our resources to achieve good public health outcomes for our population.

Reporting to the Consultant in Public Health, you will coordinate the strategic approach to CVD reduction and health inequalities agenda, and act as the strategic lead for our Integrated Health Improvement programme (West Sussex Wellbeing).

In this role you will manage resources and large-scale activities, both operational and strategic, often requiring coordination with other teams’ closely related functions. You will be closely involved in developing the future shape of service provision. You will build relationships and influence activities, including using your public health expertise working across and outside of the organisation to improve public health outcomes.
**What are we looking for?**
- You will be motivated with experience across a number of areas of public health.
- You will preferably have knowledge and understanding of NHS health checks, tobacco control and stop smoking, weight management (Tier 2 particularly), Making Every Contact Count (MECC), alcohol early intervention services and falls prevention programmes, as well NHS commissioned prevention programmes.
- You will be able to demonstrate a commitment to making a difference by narrowing the inequalities gap locally.
- You will bring strong skills around assessing and translating evidence and partnership working to bring about real change.
- You will need to be flexible, and will be comfortable engaging in new areas of work, forging new links and developing new work programmes.
- You will have experience of line management and budget management

**For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.**
**Working for us**
As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this we want to help support your development and provide an great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:

- an excellent **local government pension scheme**:

- generous holiday entitlement of** 30 **days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
- a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
- maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
- volunteering opportunities
- training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
- a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our **Staff discounts page** if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
- health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans

For a full list this can be found at our **Rewards and Benefits page.**
**Further information**
The reference number for this role is **CAFHE05148**.

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Job Reference: CAFHE05148



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