Public Health Principal - Healthy Communities

South Glos; Yate; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 68,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave (generous)

Wellbeing support

Staff discounts

Flexibility

Work-life balance

Job summary

South Gloucestershire Council is seeking a Public Health Manager to provide operational oversight of key public health programmes and to lead a team of practitioners. You will work with partners to reduce health inequalities and deliver health improvement initiatives.

You will develop strategies, monitor and evaluate services, and promote evidence-based decision making while engaging across health and community sectors in a hybrid work pattern from Badminton Road, Yate.

Qualifications

• Hold a degree in Public Health or equivalent relevant qualification.
• Experience developing and delivering health improvement strategies with partners.
• Strong communication and influencing skills across diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational oversight of public health programmes and manage a team of practitioners.
• Lead Smokefree work and collaborate with partners to engage underserved populations.
• Plan, monitor, evaluate and develop services to improve community health outcomes.
• Promote evidence-based, population outcome-focused decision making with colleagues.
• Prepare reports for stakeholders and inform policy and service development.
• Manage competing demands and respond to complex issues in a changing landscape.

Skills

Public Health expertise

Strategic planning

Team leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Data analysis

Education

Public Health degree or equivalent

Job description

How you'll make a difference

As a Public Health Manager, you will support the Strategic Lead by providing operational oversight of key public health programmes, applying your specialist knowledge and managing a team of public health practitioners. Working collaboratively across services and with partners, you will help deliver initiatives that improve health outcomes and reduce health inequalities.

The Public Health and Wellbeing Division leads a range of programmes focused on improving health outcomes, preventing ill health and reducing health inequalities, supporting healthier communities across South Gloucestershire.

What you will be doing

• Working in the Healthy Communities team, you will lead on Smokefree work, including managing our in-house Stop Smoking Support Service and working with a range of partners to engage underserved populations.
• It will be your responsibility to manage a team of public health practitioners, supporting the delivery of public health strategies, priorities and action plans across your programme areas.
• You will plan, monitor, evaluate and develop services that support the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities, contributing to improved public health outcomes across South Gloucestershire.
• Working collaboratively with colleagues and partners, you will promote matrix working and support a culture of evidence-based, population outcome-focused decision making.
• Preparing reports for a range of audiences, you will share best practice and develop relationships with stakeholders, providing expertise for prevention, intervention, and service development.
• Given the changing nature of public health priorities, you will manage competing demands, respond to complex issues and make recommendations that inform the development of policies and services and address the wider determinants of health.

What we need from you

• It is essential that you hold a relevant professional qualification, such as a degree in Public Health or equivalent relevant qualification or be able to demonstrate equivalent experience in the field of public health, education or social science.
• It is essential that you hold a relevant professional qualification, degree or equivalent specialist qualification or be able to demonstrate equivalent experience in the field of public health, education or social science.
• We are looking for someone with experience of developing and delivering strategies, plans and health improvement initiatives, working collaboratively with a range of partners to achieve positive outcomes for local communities.
• Given the nature of this work, you must have strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to engage, motivate and work effectively with colleagues and partners across health improvement, healthcare settings and the voluntary and community sector.
• You will have experience of research, development and evaluation techniques, including an understanding of complex data and the ability to communicate this effectively at all levels.

What you need to know

• This role is hybrid, with a mixture of working at our office in Badminton Road, Yate and from home.

Interviews will be held on the 13th and 14th October 2026.

How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different

• As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities.
• We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.
• We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives, and we offer genuineflexibility to help them achieve that work/life balance.
• What’s special here is the strength of theteam ethos, the support and the training.

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.

• We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of.
• We're working with the most vulnerable in our community to help them achieve what they want in life.
• We're investing in our schools to ensure every child and young person in South Gloucestershire achieves their full potential.

We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.

We’re making a difference, be part of it!

To view the full job description, please click this link: Public Health Principal - Job Description