Public Health Officer (Sexual Health)

Kent County Council; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government authority in Maidstone is seeking a skilled public health officer to manage a £16.8m portfolio of sexual health services. You will support various projects, ensuring effective delivery while working with a diverse team. Ideal candidates should possess strong project management skills and relevant public health experience. This role is critical to improving health outcomes for over 1.6 million residents in Kent.

Benefits

Equity, diversity and inclusion commitment

Qualifications

• Experience working in public health.
• Understanding of working in a large County Council environment.
• Ability to prioritize competing demands and objectives.

Responsibilities

• Provide essential project and budget management support.
• Develop, support, monitor and review activity relating to specific projects.
• Deliver effective project implementation in line with budgets and timescales.

Skills

Project management

Budget management

Communication

Organizational skills

Education

Suitable qualifications in public health

Tools

Budget management software

Job description

We are looking to appoint a skilled public health officer to join our talented Kent County Council Public Health Directorate's Sexual Health team. You will provide essential project and budget management support to ensure the effective delivery of a £16.8m portfolio of sexual health services working to improve health outcomes for more than 1.6 million people living and working in Kent.

You will need to be a suitably qualified individual with strong skills in project, budget and resource management. The role will be to develop, support, monitor and review activity relating to specific projects within the Public Health Sexual Health team and provide support and advice to officers across the team in order to deliver effective project implementation in line with budgets and timescales.

You will be skilled in budget and programme management software and have high levels of organisation and communication. Ideally you will have experience working in public health and an understanding about working in a large County Council such as ours.

Kent is a large County with lots of complex public health issues. You will have the ability to prioritise competing demands and objectives, be reliable and proactive, and be able to work with a diverse range of colleagues to deliver projects to time, budget and high standards.

As an organisation committed to equity, diversity and inclusion, we welcome applicants from a diverse or under‑represented backgrounds, particularly from the local area. This role is not open/suitable for those seeking secondment opportunity.

This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer‑facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.