Senior Public Health Practitioner – Healthy Places HCC625102

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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