Healthy Places Officer (Spatial Planning)
Location: Aylesbury
This is your chance to make a meaningful impact on public health through innovative and strategic planning. If you’re ready to be part of a forward-thinking team dedicated to making a difference, we want to hear from you!
This is a 2 year secondment/ fixed-term contract opportunity.
About us
Buckinghamshire Council is looking for a Healthy Places Officer to join its Public Health team. The Council is an innovative and high performing organisation, and public health is embedded in the council’s core business.
Buckinghamshire is generally more affluent and as a result has better health outcomes than the national average. There are however significant inequalities across the County, and the population is ageing.
The Healthy Places Officer (Spatial Planning) will provide specialist planning knowledge, progress workstreams and facilitate collaboration across Planning & Public Health, focusing on the wider determinants of health. The post will be managed by the Public Health Principal and be part of the Wider Determinants team within Public Health.
About the role
* Expert Advice & Support: Provide expert advice, guidance, and support to colleagues, customers, and stakeholders on a wide range of issues within the specialist area, taking appropriate action to resolve them.
* Stakeholder Engagement: Proactively build strong working relationships and networks with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders. Communicate effectively with all stakeholders and represent Buckinghamshire Council, both internally and externally, while maintaining or enhancing the reputation of the Public Health and Planning service areas.
* Healthy Planning Framework: Embed the Healthy Planning Framework principles across Planning, Transport, and Air Quality.
* Network Leadership: Lead the Council’s Healthy Planning network.
* Policy Development: Support the development of health-related policies for the Local Plan in collaboration with Planning Policy.
* Planning Applications: Provide the Public Health response to planning applications (and Health Impact Assessments once the policy is in place), facilitating Healthy Planning.
* Health Impact Assessments: Lead the preparation of the Health Impact Assessment (HIA) of the Local Plan with Planning Policy.
* Knowledge Enhancement: Increase the knowledge of the Public Health team on Planning and Development.
* Continuous Learning: Participate in learning and training opportunities that are aligned to the role, in order to maintain knowledge and skills to meet the needs of the Public Health and Planning service areas.
About you
We are looking for a highly qualified professional with a degree or equivalent in planning, along with a relevant professional or vocational qualification. You should have a strong grasp of planning principles and practices, and a genuine interest in Public Health. Your expertise will encompass a thorough understanding of systems, policies, procedures, professional guidelines, legislation, best practices, and emerging trends within the field.
You will bring authority and credibility to the role, enabling you to build strong relationships, influence, and engage effectively with colleagues, partners, and customers at all levels. Your ability to navigate complex or politically sensitive situations with professionalism and tact will be key to your success.
Other information
Buckinghamshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk.
We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so please be advised to submit your application as early as possible.
This post is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
* All unspent cautions and/or unspent convictions
We have a set of values, which our employees have chosen, that represent what we are – Proud, Ambitious, Collaborative and Trustworthy.
About the Business Unit
Working in partnership with our health colleagues, housing and regulatory services, community boards and voluntary networks, our aim is to ensure that residents of Buckinghamshire are given the right support at the right time. We want adults at risk to be safe and in control, and to help them make choices about how they want to live. We also want to support the wellbeing of their families and carers.
Buckinghamshire Council is an ambitious unitary authority committed to establishing one of the best councils in the country. This is a very exciting time to join our new Adults and Health directorate as we build for the future, offering multi-agency support to our communities.
We recognise and reward you
Hard work and success deserves recognition. That’s why we pride ourselves on the benefits we give our people. We actively encourage a good work-life balance and promote flexible and agile working arrangements.
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