Senior Public Health Practitioner – Healthy Places HCC625102

Company: National Health Service
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Location: Winchester
Job Description:

Overview

In this role you advance public health by leading place-based programmes that improve health outcomes and reduce inequalities. You’ll work within a multidisciplinary team and collaborate across councils, health partners, and communities to embed health considerations into policies and strategies. You’ll shape spatial planning and place-making efforts to create healthier environments and communities. This position offers opportunities to influence projects, drive partnership working, and develop your public health career within an ambitious strategy.

Pay / Benefits

  • Health Assured Employee Assistance Programme
  • generous annual leave
  • occupational sick pay
  • Local Government Pension Scheme

Responsibilities

  • Lead development and delivery of programmes addressing wider determinants of health, focusing on healthy places, housing, food insecurity and community connectedness
  • Embed health in all policies across council services to influence policy, strategy and decision-making
  • Collaborate with district/borough councils, NHS partners, Integrated Care Boards, voluntary organisations and others to implement place-based health improvements
  • Use evidence and insight to identify priorities, understand local needs, reduce inequalities and inform interventions
  • Shape public health responses to spatial planning and place-making to create healthier, more sustainable environments
  • Develop evidence-based outcome measures and evaluate programmes to demonstrate impact and support continuous improvement
  • Provide specialist public health advice, prepare reports/presentations, and represent Public Health at partnerships and networks

Key requirements

  • collaborative working
  • partnership development
  • stakeholder engagement
  • evidence-based policy development
  • place-based health improvement
  • health inequalities analysis

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Posted: October 22nd, 2026