Public Health Officer

**About The Job**
If you are all about supporting people, utilising your great organisational skills and problem solving then you’ll be in good company in the Public Health Directorate Join us as a Public Health Officer.

**Salary**: £35,411 to £38,296 per annum
**Contract Type**: Permanent
**Working Pattern**: Full Time (37 hours per week) Hybrid and Flexible Working
**Location**: County Hall, West Street, Chichester, PO19 1RQ

**Interview Date**: Tuesday 27 June and Wednesday 28 June (face to face interviews will take place at County Hall, Chichester)

We have a new opportunity for someone to join our Public Health directorate. This directorate is a progressive, specialist, multi-disciplinary department, and is committed to improving health and reducing inequalities in West Sussex. This role requires someone with excellent communication and organisational skills, with the ability to understand and communicate complex information to a range of audiences.

Does this this sounds like the type of challenge that you are looking for? If so, we’d love to hear from you

All West Sussex County Council (WSCC) employees have a WSCC location as their contractual work location, however we do operate a ‘Smarter working’ approach, this is something that you agree locally with your manager, for what works best for you, your role and your team. More details will be shared once you start working.

**The Opportunity**
Under the direction of the Public Health Strategy Manager, you’ll have a central role in supporting the function of public health policy and strategic planning within the Directorate. A wide and varied role, you’ll focus on several areas of work at once, ensuring they are delivered on time and to a high standard, including supporting the successful delivery of public health programmes and projects, drafting responses to correspondence, minute-taking, and leading the planning and coordinating of events, such as Health and Wellbeing Board seminars.

In this role, you will analyse data and collate information to inform briefings, reports, and presentations.

You will also develop internal and external communications, be responsible for the Public Health social media channels and be involved in health promotion and engagement activities.

**About You**
You will be reliable, motivated individual, with experience of working in a public health environment, you’ll work well as part of a team, with a hands-on and can-do attitude, providing support flexibly across the team on a wide range of tasks.

You will be able to demonstrate excellent communication skills (written and verbal), and attention to detail, communicating complex information to a range of audiences, adapting where required.

**For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.**

**Rewards and Benefits**
Here at West Sussex County Council we care about wellbeing, allowing time for celebrating our teams’ efforts, and developing our team to be the best they can be. Alongside this, we also offer the below benefits.
- An excellent local **government pension scheme** *employer percentage contribution is 20.70%.
- Generous holiday entitlement of 26 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
- A range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
- Maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
- Volunteering opportunities
- Training and development opportunities, including coaching, mentoring and apprenticeships
- A range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our **Staff discounts page**if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
- Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders, Wellbeing Hub and Voluntary Health Cash Plans

For a full list this can be found at our **Rewards and Benefits page.**

**Further Information**
The reference number for this role is **CAFHE04474**.

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Job Reference: CAFHE04474