Senior Public Health Officer

London Borough of Hounslow; Hounslow; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government authority in Hounslow seeks a Senior Public Health Officer to lead the Healthy Child Programme. The role involves driving public health initiatives, engaging with community stakeholders, and managing budgets/projects. Ideal candidates have experience in children's health and can demonstrate teamwork, effective service change, and strong analytical skills. This is an exceptional opportunity to influence children's health outcomes and contribute positively to the local community.

Qualifications

• Experience in public health and children's services.
• Ability to drive service change.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of Health and Wellbeing Strategy.
• Build relationships for team collaboration.
• Analyse data to inform strategies.

Skills

Team player

Effective partnership working

Data interpretation

Contract management

Job description

About Us At Hounslow

We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be. We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can‑do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

About Our Commitment To Diversity And Inclusion

We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It’s about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem‑solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer. We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias. As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.

About The Role

Our Healthy Child Programme has had a fantastic year. Streamlined, adaptable to population need and growing in success. Are you the person to make sure that continues? Your role’s scope will be wide ranging at times, predominantly leading on aspects of the Healthy Child Programme and associated children’s health and well‑being. This gives us a further opportunity to see real improvements to child health, ensuring families are more resilient, children get the best start in life, are school ready and have a successful transition into adulthood.

As the Senior Public Health Officer placed in the Public Health team, you’ll be ready to lead a wide range of public health themes, initially around the Children & Young People’s agenda. You’ll have experience ensuring effective outcomes, meeting the ambition of the service delivery plan and drive innovation. With the ability to work autonomously, you’ll be confident with commissioning, budget and project management, assessing needs and assimilating and reporting public health evidence, partnership working and stakeholder engagement.

Our wider team is dynamic and friendly with a legacy of successful contribution to the borough's priorities and the regional public health agenda. If you think you’ll thrive in this environment, we look forward to your application.

About The Team You’ll Be Working In

The Public Health Team’s vision is to ensure local services make a real impact on the health and wellbeing of residents. We’re a positive, friendly team that all want to play our part in making health everyone’s business. We are diligent and pragmatic, and we work hard to embody the Council’s core values in our daily business.

We’re looking for an accomplished Public Health leader with experience and ideas. We want someone who will take a running start, be ready to support the Senior Strategist and rapidly deliver projects. Specific experience in the field of sexual and reproductive health and children’s services is highly desirable, as is adaptability to deliver other thematic areas.

You’ll be actively involved in leading a variety of projects and contribute to the wider public health agenda. There’s an expectation that you’ll have a positive approach and can demonstrate teamwork, supporting junior staff, owning challenges and finding solutions.

Reporting to the Senior Strategist, the post will give you the autonomy to manage contracts, undertake analysis to recommend strategy and plan and implement projects. You’ll be highly motivated, creative in your thinking, and persistent in adversity. You’ll be open to learning from others and motivated to ensure services deliver for the local population.

This post is a tremendous opportunity to lead in this subject area and either build or consolidate your career in a Public Health team that is recognised for its innovation and enterprise.

About You

If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of aspects of the Health and Wellbeing Strategy, and performance management of services.
• Represent the wider team, build relationships and communicate clearly to encourage collaborative working, service improvement and efficiency.
• Assimilate and interpret evidence to report to the Senior Strategist. Establish strong relationships, develop solutions and devise projects – using our Population Health Management Framework.

Your Skills

• You must be a team player, experienced in effective partnership working and engagement.
• You must have the ability to drive service change and improvements.
• Possess the ability to understand data and interpret it for different audiences.
• Demonstrate strong contract management and negotiation skills.
• Basic DBS check is required.

Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile.

Don’t meet every single requirement?

We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can’t tick every box. At Hounslow, we realise the ‘perfect candidate’ doesn’t exist. So, if you can do most of what we’re looking for, go ahead and apply. You may be just the right candidate for the job or be perfect for one of our other roles!

When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact

Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 26th January 2026. The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:

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