Senior Public Health Strategist City of Westminster, England
Job description
About Us:
THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF INDEPENDENT LIVES
Adult Social Care in Westminster City Council and Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is a world of extraordinary stories, where our passionate, caring and committed professionals do brilliant work every day.
Mrs D was frail and unwell. Her son was her main carer, but he wasn’t coping. We stepped in to help, but they were hostile to outside agencies. They’d always lived together and were terrified they’d be split up. Our social worker did a great job persuading Mrs D to get hospital treatment and a temporary stay in a care home. In an epic effort throughout COVID, she gained the son’s trust and sorted all the repairs, carers and nurses needed so that Mrs D could come home to live with her son. We also got Mr D regular respite and a personal budget awarded in recognition of him as her carer. After all, there’s nothing more important than living the life you want.
The Role:
As a Senior Public Health Strategist, you’ll make your own profound contribution. This role is all about protecting and promoting the health and wellbeing of residents across Westminster and Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, tackling health inequalities, and putting the public first at all times. To do this, you’ll prioritise what’s important, ensuring specialist skills, knowledge, and funding are deployed in the most effective ways to improve priority population health issues. Using programme and project management techniques to drive and oversee the delivery of joint work programmes, you’ll develop and sustain productive partnerships in a cross-departmental and organisational capacity to deliver tangible public health outputs.
Above all, you’ll work to embed public health priorities alongside other departmental priorities, communicating and presenting data and information to key stakeholders to instil public health principles and activities in key aspects of council activity. Most importantly, you’ll put the health and wellbeing of Westminster and Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea residents at the forefront of all of your decision making, working to improve public health outcomes across the borough.
The post holder will lead on delivering programmes of work to protect and promote the health and wellbeing of residents and tackle inequalities with a specific focus on North Kensington and the Public Health contribution to the Grenfell Recovery programme.
Please refer to the Job Description for more information.
About You:
An established professional with over 3 years of experience working within a public health or similar role, you’ll be capable of conducting health needs assessments through the collation, analysis, and interpretation of key public health data, information, and evidence. You’ll have undertaken evaluations that effectively measure the outcome and benefit of public health interventions, and will have taken a piece of work through the project management cycle from a vision to an outcome.
With knowledge of best practice public health, and of the public health system in London, you’ll be capable of managing internal and external stakeholder relationships, and of facilitating and leading meetings. On a personal level, you’ll be an independent and creative thinker with excellent communication skills and the ability to build and develop trusting professional relationships. You’ll manage and prioritise your time effectively, taking a solutions focused approach to work and identifying innovative ways to overcome issues. More than anything, you’ll be a person passionate about improving public health outcomes and overcoming health inequalities. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a vibrant and dynamic team putting the public first.
The Council and its partners are committed to achieving diverse shortlists for all vacancies at Band 4 or above to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce. As part of this ambition, if you are from a Global Majority (GM) you can self-declare this to the hiring manager as part of our positive action commitments.
What We Offer:
Westminster is an amazing place. There are 250,000 diverse residents, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people working here every day. Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.
At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the communities we service at all levels. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and are empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties
We are a multi award winning and forward-thinking Council which appreciates that people work in different ways, and where our staff benefit from working in a range of flexible and agile working patterns.
The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.
