Public Health Practitioner - Research & Evaluation

Cambridge County Council; Alconbury; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing package

Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual-le

Flexible bank holidays

Additional Voluntary Contributions

Development opportunities

Paid volunteering hours

Peer Support Groups

Employee Recognition Awards

Cambs Rewards discounts

Car Lease

Cycle to Work

Job summary

Cambridgeshire County Council is seeking an experienced public health practitioner to drive key agendas, understand population needs, use evidence-based approaches to develop strategic plans and interventions, and contribute to and lead portfolio areas as part of the Public Health Strategic Plan and the Health and Wellbeing Strategy.

This Public Health Practitioner role has a specific focus on healthy place, public health research, and evaluation and sits within the Cambridgeshire County Council

Qualifications

• Degree in a health or scientific discipline (Master's in Public Health or related subject)
• Strong knowledge of public health theory and epidemiology
• Experience in developing, delivering, and evaluating public health programmes
• Experience in producing systematic evidence reviews
• Excellent communication and partnership-building skills
• Proactive, analytical and inclusive approach to problem-solving

Responsibilities

• Deliver a high quality and effective range of public health programmes according to the role's portfolio, leading development, project management and delivery
• Monitor and evaluate the impact of public health programmes and interventions
• Critically analyse evidence and population data to identify priorities across Cambridgeshire
• Develop and implement evidence-based interventions addressing population needs
• Build strong working relationships with partners inside and outside the council and lead multi-agency partnerships
• Manage associated commissioning and budgets with robust governance
• Review and appraise evidence, analyse data, and write briefing papers for decision-making
• Collaborate with public health academic partners on research opportunities and grant applications

Skills

Public health knowledge

Epidemiology

Programme evaluation

Partnership-building

Analytical thinking

Proactive problem-solving

Education

Master's in Public Health or related subject

Tools

None

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced public health professional to use public health knowledge and skills to drive forward key public health agendas, understand population needs, use evidence-based approaches to develop strategic plans and interventions, and contribute to and lead specific portfolio areas as part of the Public Health Strategic Plan and the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Health and Wellbeing Strategy.

This Public Health Practitioner role has a specific focus on healthy place, public health research, and evaluation and sits within the Cambridgeshire County Council Public Health service.

The post reports to a Public Health Principal to deliver key priority areas for the department.

For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact

Nina Rogers

Email Address - [e-mail]

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.

What will you be doing?

• Deliver a high quality and effective range of public health programmes according to the specific portfolio of the role, leading the development, project management and delivery of core work areas to deliver the public health strategic work plan and health and wellbeing strategy.
• Monitor and evaluate the impact of public health programmes and interventions associated with the role's portfolio.
• Critically analyse the evidence, service and population data, including community and stakeholder voice, to identify priorities and needs across the population of Cambridgeshire.
• Develop and implement evidence-based interventions and delivery plans to address population need, using a proactive and problem solving approach.
• Develop strong and effective working relationships with partners both within and outside the council to ensure an inclusive and supportive approach; develop and lead multi agency partnerships, developing consensus, shared priorities, agreed strategic plans, and demonstrable impact.
• Manage associated commissioning and budgets associated with the programmes of work as required using robust processes and governance and looking for new opportunities where possible.
• Extensively review and critically appraise the evidence, analyse data, and write and present briefing papers to support evidence-based decision-making.
• Collaborate with public health academic partners to identify opportunities for public health research within the service, collaborate on grant applications, or embed research findings into service delivery to improve impact.

About you

• A degree in a relevant health or scientific discipline (Master's in Public Health or related subject
• desirable).
• Strong knowledge of public health theory and epidemiology.
• Experience in developing, delivering, and evaluating public health
• programmes.
• Experience in producing systematic evidence reviews
• Excellent communication and partnership-building skills.
• A proactive, analytical, and inclusive approach to problem-solving

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don't meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don't be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers