Public Health Practitioner

DoctorPA Secure LTD; Chalgrove; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Oakhill Secure Training Centre is seeking a Public Health Practitioner to lead the development and delivery of a public health programme within the establishment, coordinating healthcare, education and psychology colleagues.

This role emphasises trauma-informed, child-centred practice and involves data analysis, audit work and collaboration with NHS England, UKHSA and local authorities to improve health outcomes for young people in custody.

Qualifications

• Public health background or related professional training.
• Good understanding of health promotion and preventive care.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver health promotion programmes with input from young people and those with additional needs.
• Increase screening uptake and coordinate routine vaccinations and seasonal campaigns.
• Deliver sexual health education and smoking/vaping reduction initiatives.
• Support infection control and outbreak preparedness in the setting, liaising with UKHSA.
• Ensure continuity of care during transfer, release and transition to adult services.
• Analyse data, conduct audits and report findings to senior leaders.

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an innovative and motivated Public Health Practitioner to lead the development and delivery of a public health programme at Oakhill Secure Training Centre. This is a programme and service development role, where you will lead, coordinate and evaluate public health initiatives across the establishment. We welcome applicants from public health, nursing, allied health, social work and health promotion backgrounds. If you hold a professional registration, you will maintain it and work within your code of conduct and scope of practice.

This is not a clinical role. You wont carry out clinical procedures unless you are suitably qualified, trained, assessed as competent and authorised, and responsibility for clinical decisions, diagnostics, prescribing, referrals and medical follow-up remains with registered clinicians.

Working within the Secure Stairs framework, you will take a trauma-informed, child-centred and strengths-based approach, embedding public health throughout the setting. You will work closely with healthcare, operational, education and psychology colleagues, as well as youth justice professionals, local authorities, NHS England, UKHSA and community health services.

Main duties of the job

• Design and deliver health promotion programmes, co-produced with young people and accessible to those with additional needs.
• Increase screening uptake and coordinate routine, catch-up and seasonal vaccinations
• Deliver sexual health education and smoking and vaping reduction initiatives
• Support infection control and outbreak preparedness, liaising with UKHSA
• Ensure continuity of care through transfer, release and transition to adult services
• Analyse data, run audits and report to senior leaders

Oakhill Secure Training Centre is a custodial environment for children both females and males between the ages of 12 years old and 18 years old. Children may present with complex physical health, wellbeing and mental health, undiagnosed neurodivergent needs and complex trauma.

This role sits within the healthcare team, which is divided into three different teams, Primary Care, Wellbeing Service and Substance Misuse Service. The teams consist of Assistant & Trainee Psychologists, Qualified Psychologists, Speech and Language Therapist, Occupational Therapist, Psychiatrist, Registered Mental Health Nurses, Registered General Nurses and Substance Misuse Practitioners.