Public Health Principal Warwick, West Midlands, England
Job description
About us and the role
Warwickshire Public Health, part of the county council, is looking for organised and enthusiastic people with a strong track record in managing projects that contribute to improving and protecting population health and wellbeing and reducing inequalities.
Do you hold a qualification in public health or a related health and care field? Have you got a minimum of 3 years’ hands-on experience of delivering successful projects? Do you know how to improve health and wellbeing using a public health preventative approach? If the answer to one or more of these is ‘yes’, we would love to hear from you.
Following the pandemic period we have reset our priorities and are looking to increase the size of our staff team so that we can influence a wider range of services and partner organisations. Our staff are visible both online and in our office space at Shire Hall, Warwick.
We are offering three full-time (37 hours per week) Public Health Principal officer roles, to support the Public Health managers and leadership team deliver activity across a broad range of areas. Our current work priorities for these roles include mental health and harm reduction; inequalities and community safety; and, child health and cardiovascular disease. Our priorities do change over time, along with our workloads.
There are opportunities to get involved in other aspects of Public Health work too, and to collaborate with team colleagues as well as people in other services and our communities. We support in-house learning and development and are committed to developing our staff to become high-performing public health practitioners.
Public Health Principals are the backbone of our service. Successful candidates will be a first point of contact for advice; a skilled partner and networker with the ability to engage with a wide range of people; comfortable with collecting evidence, analysing data, and producing reports with recommendations; an advocate of public health approaches, prevention, and the reduction of health inequalities.
If you would like more information, please contact the following members of the Public Health leadership team:
Mental health principal role – [email protected] (Paula Jackson, Consultant in Public Health)
Inequalities principal role – [email protected] (Jane Coates, Service Manager, Inequalities)
Children’s health principal role – [email protected] (Uju Okereke, Consultant in Public Health)
Additional Information
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Closing Date: 28th February 2023
Interviews will be conducted face to face in Shire Hall Warwick, on the dates Tuesday 7 March, Wednesday 8 March, or Thursday 9 March 2023.
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Our method of application is online, please note, CV’s should not been submitted unless asked to do so.
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You will be notified of our shortlisting decision via email, so please check your email on a regular basis after submitting your application.
As part of being a Disability Confident employer we guarantee to interview anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean that you must provide us with evidence in your application form which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required for each competence, as well as meeting any of the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential in the person specification.
Should you require application forms in an alternative format / language or any adjustments to be made throughout the application process or upon appointment, please contact [email protected] and we will make every effort to meet your specific requirements.
Warwickshire County Council (WCC) is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and is keen to address areas of under representation in its workforce, this is because we really understand the importance of different voices, experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds within our workforce. Therefore, we strongly encourage applications from members of underrepresented groups. WCC has a number of staff network groups which provide peer support and safe spaces for employees who hold these and other identities. See more.
