Public Health Consultant

TAMESIDE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL; Ashton-under-Lyne; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government authority in the UK seeks a Public Health professional to lead strategic initiatives, including the acclaimed Live Well programme. Responsibilities include collaborating with local partners to enhance health outcomes and addressing health inequalities. The ideal candidate will possess a relevant public health qualification and have strong problem-solving and communication skills. This role offers a chance to make a meaningful impact on community health and well-being.

Benefits

Continuous professional development opportunities

Supportive work environment

Contribution to community health

Qualifications

• Public health professional with experience in health improvement.
• Strong skills in negotiation and communication within diverse settings.
• Ability to influence and advocate across organizational boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership in the Public Health team.
• Work with partners to improve health outcomes across the population.
• Lead initiatives such as the Live Well programme.

Skills

Problem solving

Communication

Political skills

Technical skills

Partnership skills

Education

Relevant public health qualification

Job description

The Role:

This is a great opportunity to join our Public Health at Tameside MBC. Tameside is one of the ten boroughs in Greater Manchester and is a 10-minute train ride into Manchester City Centre. We work closely with the other nine local authorities and Public Health teams across Greater Manchester, which includes the GM Combined Authority, led by the GM Mayor Andy Burnham. There are some exciting GM-wide programmes which this role will have the direct opportunity to lead on such as the Live Well programme.

This role will provide strategic leadership both within Public Health as well as across the council and wider system, alongside the Director of Public Health, Assistant Director and the existing Public Health Consultant in the team. This role will provide strategic leadership as part of the Public Health Senior Team, and the Extended Leadership team of the council. You will work with partners to improve health outcomes across the population, as identified in the Tameside Corporate Plan and Health & Wellbeing Strategy. The role reports directly to the Director of Public Health.

It is an exciting time to join Tameside council with lots of positive improvements happening now to realise our vision that Tameside can be a place where everyone can achieve their hopes and ambitions. This role will be a key part of that exciting work, including delivering on Tameside’s Live Well programme and being closer to our residents across each of our nine towns to make sure we are delivering more of the right support in the right place, at the right time.

This role will provide advice, guidance, and strategic leadership in the Public Health team and across the organization and wider network of partners. This will include senior leadership around a range of agendas including health improvement (including strategic approaches to tackling tobacco harms, unhealthy weight and inactivity), working across the Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) sector, public health advice into the healthcare system (healthcare public health) and supporting the work across our neighbourhoods agenda (including delivering on the Live Well programme).

Our team is at the core of the exciting work happening in the borough and there are a wide range of areas that this role will have the scope to get involved with including tackling the wider determinants of health and across a range of local partner organisations. You will be working in a team with a broad range of skills and expertise and with an excellent reputation for collaboration and delivery across Tameside.

This is a senior leadership role, recognised across the organisation and the wider system. It will provide joint leadership across the Public Health team and the council as a whole. You will have good access to CPD opportunities to support your ongoing professional registration and there will be opportunities to explore areas of interest such as research and health protection and gaining wide experience of line management and educational supervision.

About You:

We are seeking an appropriately qualified public health professional with excellent problem solving, communication, political and technical skills who has the energy and drive to make a major contribution to improving health and reducing inequalities in Tameside. A particular interest in the wider determinants of health, health improvement and working with the voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise sector would be desirable.

The role requires a cross-council as well as multiagency partnership approach, and you will be expected to have strong relationship and partnership skills. A high level of intellectual rigour, political awareness, negotiation and motivation skills and flexibility are required as well as the ability to communicate effectively within diverse settings. Tact, diplomacy, and leadership is required and an ability to understand other cultures, advise, challenge and advocate to enable effective working across organisational boundaries and influencing without direct authority.

You will play a key role in developing the public health function more widely, as well as day to day operational activities of the Public Health team. Most importantly we are looking for someone who is passionate about making a difference to the lives of the residents we serve and to strive to shift outcomes for the better so that our residents have better futures.

About Us:

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling, and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose, and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.

Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm, and motivation to be the best they can be.

This position is subject to Basic Disclosure Procedures.

This is a politically restricted post.

Closing date: 20 October 2025.

Assessment date: Interviews week commencing 3rd November 2025.