Senior Public Health Officer
Date: 31 Oct 2024
Job Location: Gloucester
This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
* Job Title: Senior Public Health Officer
* Job Location: Shire Hall, Block 4, 2nd Floor
* Salary: £40,476 - £45,718 per annum
* Hours per Week: 37.00
* Contract Type: 1 Permanent & 1 Fixed Term Role
* Duration: 1 Permanent & 1 Fixed Term until 31st March 2026
* Closing Date: 17/11/2024
* Job Requisition Number: 10184
* This post is not open to job share
We have 1 permanent vacancy and 1 fixed term vacancy (until 31st March 2026)
Are you passionate about public health, supporting communities and making a difference?
Do you want to work in a team that is dedicated to ensuring Gloucestershire is a county where everyone can thrive?
About the Team & Role:
You would be joining the Public Health and Communities Hub. We are a team committed to making a difference to the health and wellbeing of residents, places, and communities, enabling people to live healthy lives and reduce inequalities.
As a Senior Public Health Officer, you will work under the direction of Public Health Managers to lead and support a range of projects and programmes aimed at improving health outcomes. Working flexibly across the commissioning cycle, you will take a lead on commissioning activity and work collaboratively with internal and external partners to build on community strengths and on evidence of what matters to local people and what works.
You will join a supportive team with a commitment to professional development to enable you to contribute to improving and protecting the health and wellbeing of residents of Gloucestershire.
About You:
Our ideal candidate will have experience of working in a commissioning environment, as a commissioner or provider, and experience of working on the determinants of health, for example, housing, environmental health, health and social care, and/or public health.
They will have proven project management skills, self-initiative, and the ability to work flexibly and build constructive relationships with people at all levels.
Please read the job profile which provides further information on the experience and attributes sought of our ideal candidate.
The Public Health and Communities Hub supports the Council’s Agile working policy and expects team members to work an average of two days per week in the office, which is based in central Gloucester, and to attend ‘in person’ meetings as required. New starters will be required to come into the office more often in their first 3 weeks for induction.
About us:
In return for your hard work, you will receive:
* Flexible and agile working opportunities: a combination of home working and office working at Shire Hall, Gloucester, with core working hours of Monday to Friday 09:30-16:00.
* Supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision.
* Annual Leave entitlement of 25.5 days excluding Bank Holidays (Public Health and Communities Hub do not work Bank Holidays).
* Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme.
* Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
* Cycle to Work scheme.
* Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network, Black Workers Network, Young Employees Network.
* Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&C's apply).
How to Apply:
If you feel you have the skills, desire, and experience required to make a positive difference, please submit your application and personal statement today by clicking the “Apply Now” button.
Your application must include a CV and a personal statement detailing how you meet the criteria in the job profile. Please limit your personal statement to a maximum of 1,200 words. Please state on your application if you would be interested in the fixed term or permanent position.
To have an informal discussion about the role, please contact amy.price2@gloucestershire.gov.uk to arrange a suitable time to talk.
Interviews are provisionally planned for the week commencing 2nd December but may be subject to change.
Additional Information
To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:
Senior Public Health Officer Job Profile
Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.
It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.
Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.
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