Public Health Officer

About The Role
Are you passionate about improving people's health and wellbeing? Are you looking for a new challenge?

We are looking to recruit a Public Health Officer on a 12-month fixed term contract to join our friendly and forward-thinking Public Health team at North Northamptonshire Council. Working within our dynamic, knowledgeable, and diverse team, you will play a key role in enhancing the health of our residents through prevention, early intervention, and health improvement initiatives.

This role offers a valuable opportunity to support the implementation of evidence-based public health programs and interventions aimed at improving health outcomes and reducing health inequalities.

The post is a fixed term appointment for a 12-month period.

The closing date for this post is Tuesday 6th January 2026.

If you have any further questions about this role, please contact Jessica Neal-Brook, Public Health Practitioner – Children and Young People at Jessica.Neal-

What will you be doing?

Principal Responsibilities
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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.

• 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.
• Identify opportunities to improve and/or simplify directorate processes and seek to remedy these through improved processes, compliance or coaching.
• Represent Public Health within Local Area Partnerships across North Northamptonshire
• 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, in order to maintain control of delivering improved services using cost effective processes.
• Support health improvement initiatives through engaging clinicians, commissioners and local authority providers in new initiatives to change behaviour, increasing public awareness of risk factors and health promotion.
• Support health protection planning and the local public health response to

major incidents, disease outbreaks or other public health incidents.

• 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 and 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 And 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.
• Ability for presenting complex information to groups and in a simplified way
• Computer literate.

Desirable Criteria

• The ability to manage and/or work on a number of concurrent projects.
• Able to act independently, with some guidance from line manager.

Equal Opportunities
Ability to demonstrate awareness/understanding of equal opportunities and other people's behaviour, physical, social and welfare needs.

Additional Factors
Essential Criteria

• Able to demonstrate experience of working in NHS or local government cultures and structures.
• Experience of working with health and/ or social care professionals to deliver service improvement.

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of full cycle experience of managing projects and leading task and finish groups.

Our benefits

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Why choose us?

We Offer a Vibrant Working Environment With

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About Us
Our Values and Behaviours
Our Values Define Who We Are And How We Operate, By Forming The Foundation For How We Interact With Our Customers, Colleagues And Provide Our Services. They Are Also At The Forefront Of Our Decision Making And Delivery And Are

Customer-focused

Respectful

Efficient

Supportive

Trustworthy

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

Disability Confident Employer
We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council

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The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).

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Attached documents

• Public Health Officer NNC - Healthy Early

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