Health Protection Practitioner (HCAI) - Ref: SS06724
G10: £42,403 - £47,420 per annum (pay award pending)
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work with Walsall Council’s Public Health team working across the health protection and children and young people’s agendas. Both are busy but exciting areas of Public Health work.
Within this joint role, you will be required to demonstrate proven experience of working at a strategic level with an ability to engage and lead partners. The role will also involve you being able to work independently to Public Health topic priorities with a proven ability to take responsibility for your own workload and prioritise work according to demand. This role will also require you to horizon scan and identify emerging public health issues for the local population as part of the health protection or varying children and young people agendas.
About the job and about you:
The health protection role will require you to work with partners in the NHS and community to promote immunisations and screening. You will also work on health protection issues with schools, GPs, family hubs, and maternity services and as such have the proven ability to work across many relevant disciplines and identify new partners who can support the agenda. You will be expected to have a basic knowledge of the principles of infection, prevention and control of communicable diseases and expected to support reactive work of responding to incidents and outbreaks.
Within the children’s agenda, you will focus on taking forward the recommendations from the new infant mortality strategy and linking with the developing ADPH Regional and LMNS work. The increasing need for support around young person emotional health and wellbeing is becoming a greater concern in schools and communities and joint working to initiate projects may also be required.
The Public Health team is a supportive team, and measures are put in place to ensure that the successful candidate can thrive in a busy and productive team.
If you would like to know more about this role, please contact: Bimpe Akingboye (email: olabimpe.akingboye@walsall.gov.uk or tel. number 01922 652734)
Closing date for applications: 2nd December 2024
Interview date: 18th December 2024
This post is covered by the Government’s Code of Practice on the English Language Fluency Duty for public sector workers. The post holder will be required to communicate verbally with customers and provide advice and/or information in accurate spoken English.
Walsall Council takes seriously the responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of all the children, young people, and vulnerable adults entrusted to our care and it is our expectation that all staff will share this commitment. We will ensure continuous development and improvement of robust recruitment processes and procedures that promote a culture of safeguarding amongst our workforce. Completion of an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check is a requirement for working with children, young people, and vulnerable adults.
Note: Applicants appointed to posts that require an enhanced DBS clearance must declare any periods of time that they have lived, studied, or worked abroad and be prepared to provide an Overseas Criminal Records Certificate (OCRC) or a Statement of Good Conduct (SOGC) relating to anytime they were overseas.
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