Public Health Research Practitioner

About the role

This role is part of the Cambridgeshire's County Council's Public

Health Service.

The overall purpose of the Local Authority Research Practitioner

(LARP) is to ensure that public health research and

evidence-informed practice is embedded across Cambridgeshire

County Council (CCC) and its partners.

This is a new role that is half-funded by the NIHR School of Public

Health Research and provides a great opportunity to strengthen

public health research within local government, working

collaboratively across multiple partners including with the School

of Public Health Research at Newcastle University.

For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact

Sarah Dougan, Interim Consultant in Public Health

What will you be doing?

The postholder will help shape and embed public health research

by developing a structured and systematic approach to increasing

public health research activity, enhancing organisational public

health research capability, and supporting the practical use of

public health research evidence to inform decision-making to

improve health outcomes and reduce health inequalities. They

will achieve this by raising public health research awareness,

assessing public health research readiness, guiding and training

staff in specialist public health skills, and developing the necessary

infrastructure and governance to support high-quality public

health research.

The postholder will need to work closely with NIHR Research

Support Service in the Specialist Centre for Public Health Research

and local academic partners, as well as LARPs in other local

authorities.

They will be managed by a Public Health Principal and will be in a

small team with a focus on public health research, evaluation and

developing a healthy place.

About you

We are looking for someone with a higher level degree in Public Health/related subject or equivalent experience, who has experience of working in public health research and can develop and nurture collaborations and partnerships across research organisations, the local authority and our other partners.

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.