Senior Public Health Officer

**Directorate**: Public Health
- **Pay Level**: 8
- **Working Hours**:37 hrs /week
- **Location**:Observatory House, Slough/ Hybrid
- **DBS requirement**: Enhanced

**What you’ll be doing**:
We are seeking to appoint an organised and experienced Senior Public Health Officer to join Slough Borough Council’s motivated, forward looking and expanding Public Health Team.

You will be contributing to the delivery of the Public Health strategy, improving population health through addressing environmental and wider determinants of health, provide public health expertise, advice and support on health improvement, with a focus on public health outcomes, including Health and Wellbeing outcomes, such as within Healthy Places, natural and built environment, Health Impact Assessments and Statutory and non-statutory Planning Policy, Access to Healthy Food, Cleaner Air.

You will be engaging and providing evidence to support Local Plan review and Planning policy to support delivery of Council’s priorities for public health. You will embed high quality Health Impact Assessments process, managing an active and busy inbox as well as working in close partnership with colleagues from SBC Planning, Licencing, Transport and Environment team.

There will also be numerous opportunities for personal development and growth, both in terms of training/CPD and working with a range of partner organisations and several projects.

**What you’ll have**:

- Experience in building strong and positive relationships with partner organisations across Slough’s public, private, community and voluntary sectors, in order to devise shared priorities for healthy places, and facilitate the delivery of shared agendas.
- Experience managing specific projects and working with stakeholders to support the delivery of elements within a larger Healthy Places programme. You will need to ensure there are strong business cases, robust governance and controls in place, and the identification and realisation of benefits.
- A working knowledge of the Healthy Places Agenda is extremely beneficial.
- You will be working in a fast-paced environment that would draw on and build your organisational skills, your ability to prioritise workloads in a multi-disciplinary context.
- Your previous experience working collaboratively across internal and external teams is essential in this role to achieving goals and objectives.

**Our Council**:
Our vision is to make a difference to our communities and our environment and we would love you to join us in our mission All of our employees, whatever their job, contribute greatly to delivering services to local people - either directly, or by supporting colleagues. We celebrate diversity and are continuously striving for our residents to enjoy fulfilling prosperous and healthy lives.

**What we offer**:
We offer a supportive place to grow and develop your career with a real opportunity for your input to be valued and heard. Ambition and innovation will be required now more than ever and you will join a friendly and collaborative environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Alongside a competitive salary, we provide:

- 26 days annual leave (not including Bank holidays), rising to 30 days between 2 - 5 years’ service and 33 days after 5 years’ service.
- The Local Government Pension Scheme

We offer a wider range of great benefits including:

- Flexible and hybrid working options to promote work-life balance
- Our commitment to equality and diversity through a range of employee networks
- Wellbeing initiatives
- Tax - free childcare and childcare services
- Season loan ticket - to help with the cost of your rail / bus journey to & from work.

**Interested?**
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**Join our team at Slough Borough Council and help accelerate our journey of transformation and growth