Health Protection Specialist

3 months ago


Huntingdon, United Kingdom Cambridgeshire County Council Full time

Job summary

We have an exciting vacancy in the Public Health Team as a Health Protection Specialist. For more information please see the below.

Main duties of the job

We have an exciting vacancy in the Public Health Team as a Health Protection Specialist. For more information please see the below.

About us

We have a wide range of great benefits if you join us as a colleague at Cambridgeshire County Council. To find out more please see below.

Job description

Job responsibilities

This is an exciting opportunity to be the Health Protection Specialist in the Public Health Team at Cambridgeshire County Council.

The Public Health Team at Cambridgeshire County Council is looking to appoint a Health Protection Specialist who will have a lead role in delivering the local authority Health Protection responsibilities.

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 What will you be doing?

The post has a leadership role along with some operational responsibilities. It will provide the post holder with the opportunity to provide system leadership, coordination, and assurance across a range of organisations to ensure local systems are in place to respond to an outbreak or an emergency and take steps to ensure that risks are mitigated and managed. This is alongside supporting the local response to any health protection incidents, outbreaks, and emergencies.

About you

If you have a background in health protection or public health, you may be the right person to join us. You will need to be resilient and motivated, working with colleagues across the Council and will be able to build good relationships across many different sectors.

Closing date for applications isSunday, 22nd September 2024. Interviews are expected to be held w/c 7th October 2024.

For further information about the role and applying, please contact

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 you dont meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please dont 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 Employer. 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. Some examples of adjustments 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.

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