Public Health Practitioner

About the role

An exciting and unique opportunity has arisen for Public Health Practitioners in Cambridgeshire County Council, Public Health Team. You will be part of an innovative, ambitious, and friendly public health team.

You will be highly motivated, experienced with a dynamic, forward-thinking, public health practitioner 'can do' approach and a proven track record of delivery.

Our local residents and service users are at the heart of everything we do. Working across the county of Cambridgeshire you will be expected to drive improvement through collaboration and partnership working with specialist services and partner agencies.

These roles require proven experience of working within the public health arena. They are strategic delivery roles and will work across the system playing a key part in shaping and delivering evidence-based programmes that improve population health, reduce health inequalities and support the ambitions of our Health and Wellbeing Strategy.

The posts report to a public health principal to deliver key priority areas for the department. We currently have six vacant posts across the team in the following portfolios:

Four full time positions

• Sexual Health & Health Protection
• Maternity and Women's Health
• Prevention – Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) and Older People
• Inclusion Health

Two part-time positions (22.2 hours)

• Prevention – obesity, tobacco and physical activity
• Social Determinants of Health

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What will you be doing?

The post holder will deliver a high quality and effective range of public health programmes according to the specific portfolio of the role, leading the development, project management and delivery of core work areas to deliver the public health strategic work plan and health and wellbeing strategy, leading specific workstreams of strategy delivery according to portfolio of the role.

Be responsible for outcomes and targets associated with the specifics of the portfolio. Monitor and evaluate the impact of public health programmes and interventions associated with the role's portfolio.

Critically analyse the evidence, service and population data, including community and stakeholder voice, to identify priorities and needs across the population of Cambridgeshire.

Develop and implement evidence-based interventions and delivery plans to address population need, using a proactive and problem-solving approach.

Develop strong and effective working relationships with partners both within and outside the council to ensure an inclusive and supportive approach; develop and lead multi agency partnerships, developing consensus, shared priorities, agreed strategic plans, and demonstrable impact.

Commission providers as part of delivery as needed, utilising appropriate procurement and governance frameworks, and ensuring value for money and outcomes.

Manage associated commissioning and budgets associated with the programmes of work as required using robust processes and governance and looking for new opportunities where possible.

Demonstrate an awareness and understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion.

Ability to contribute to our organisational commitment to becoming a Net Zero organisation by 2030.

About you

You will have a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of Public Health key theories and concepts. An in-depth knowledge of public health in practice.

Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of epidemiological theory and practice.

Knowledge of public health evidence for key public health areas and comprehensive in-depth understanding of literature search to obtain and evaluate Public Health evidence.

Knowledge of commissioning of services and of evaluation of public health or health interventions.

A Batchelor Degree in Health/Health Improvement/Scientific or related subject.

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don't meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don't be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.