Public Health Officer
2 weeks ago
About the role
Public Health North Northamptonshire are looking to appoint a Public Health Officer to the Public Health Children and Young People's Team. You will play a key part in improving the health of residents in North Northamptonshire, through prevention, early intervention and health improvement approaches across the health and social care economy and support the implementation of evidence based public health programmes/interventions to improve health and reduce health inequalities.
As a Public Health Officer, you will play a key role in supporting the delivery of the national priority of ‘every child gets the best start in life’ by promoting and improving healthy lifestyles of children and young people and their families through addressing key health behaviours. This will involve identifying effective evidence based interventions, and reviewing practice to improve health outcomes for children and families, whilst reducing health inequalities. This role will focus on developing partnerships across the two councils and with health system partners and providing Officer support to monitor the commissioned work within children and young people’s services.
You will report to the Public Health Practitioner for Maternity, Children and Young People and will work across the Children’s Portfolio to support the team and organisation in achieving the desired outcomes.
This is a permanent appointment.
The closing date for this post is **Friday 10th May**.
Interviews are expected to be held on **Tuesday 21st May.**
What will you be doing?
**Principal Responsibilities**
1. Manage key pieces of Public Health development work, in line with local and national priorities and emerging legislation, to meet Public Health and Wellbeing Service Plans and national and local public health strategy.
2. Provide process redesign expertise to the Public Health team and be accountable for the planning, co-ordination, facilitation and monitoring of public health change or improvement projects; developing capability and capacity to embed service improvement tools and techniques supporting the continuous modernisation and redesign of traditional service.
3. Identify opportunities to improve and/or simplify directorate processes and seek to remedy these through improved processes, compliance, or coaching.
4. Represent Public Health at local area levels and the Community Wellbeing Forums within North Northamptonshire.
5. Contribute to project planning within specific public health priority areas, ensuring that a clear and transparent plan is maintained and managed using NNC project management methodology to track progress, to maintain control of delivering improved services using cost effective processes.
6. Support health improvement initiatives through collaboration with the voluntary community sector and engaging clinicians, commissioners and local authority providers in new initiatives to change behaviour, increasing public awareness of risk factors and health promotion.
7. Support health protection planning and the local public health response to major incidents, disease outbreaks or other public health incidents.
8. Identify effective evidence-based interventions and reviewing practice to improve health outcomes for children and families, whilst reducing health inequalities.
9. Monitor changing guidance at a national and regional level, bring attention to the public health areas it will impact and tailor the public health programme according to the population need with the aim of reducing health inequalities.
About you
**Education, Qualifications & Training**
- Essential Criteria_
- Educated to degree level in a management related discipline or hold a professional qualification (such as finance or procurement) at a similar level
- A formal qualification in or working towards a Public Health or related discipline
- Prince2 Practitioner Level or Equivalent
- Desirable Criteria_
- MSc in Public Health or equivalent
**Experience and Knowledge**
- Essential Criteria_
- Able to demonstrate a good understanding of NHS and local authority policy, statutory duties and responsibilities
- Able to demonstrate understanding of Public Health areas of responsibility and functions
- Able to demonstrate understanding of Public Health practice, health promotion and health care evaluation
- Able to demonstrate knowledge of evidence based Public Health practice
- Desirable Criteria_
Experience of full cycle experience of managing projects and leading task and finish groups
**Ability & Skills**
- Essential Criteria_
- Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills (for a range of audiences from senior management to the media)
- Sensible negotiator with practical expectation of what can be achieved
- Excellent interpersonal and motivational skills with the ability to influence and negotiate with stakeholders at all levels.
- Ability for presenting complex information to groups and in a simplified way
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