Senior Public Health Practitioner – Healthy Places

Overview

In this role, you will lead and shape programmes that address the wider determinants of health through healthy places, housing, and community connectivity. You will collaborate across councils, NHS partners, and communities to embed public health into policy and services. You’ll use evidence and evaluation to guide interventions and demonstrate impact, helping to reduce inequalities. This opportunity sits within a multidisciplinary team driving the Public Health Strategy and place-making at a region-wide scale. You will contribute to meaningful improvements in residents’ health and well-being while advancing your public health career in a forward-thinking council.

Pay / Benefits

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

Responsibilities

• Lead development and delivery of programmes addressing wider determinants of health, with focus on healthy places, housing, food insecurity, and connectedness
• Embed health in all policies by ensuring public health principles influence policy, strategy, and decision-making
• Collaborate with district/borough councils, NHS partners, IC Boards, voluntary sector to implement place-based health approaches
• Use evidence, research 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 environments
• Develop evidence-based outcome measures and evaluate programmes to demonstrate impact and support decision-making
• Provide specialist public health advice, prepare reports/presentations for diverse audiences and represent Public Health in partnerships and forums

Key requirements

• Master in Public Health, or equivalent
• Significant experience in public health or equivalent roles
• Strong knowledge of health inequalities, determinants of health, and current public health policy
• Experience developing, implementing and evaluating public health programmes/policies
• Excellent analytical skills to interpret complex evidence and present findings
• Understanding of epidemiology and research methods applied to public health policy
• Outstanding communication, influencing and partnership-working skills
• Strong project management, organisational and problem-solving abilities

• collaboration
• communication
• influencing
• epidemiology
• research methods
• data interpretation

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