Salary
£42,771 - £45,750 per annum.
Package
Permanent, full-time, 36 hours per week.
Job category/type
Public Health
Date posted
24/09/2025
Job reference
R0007073
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.
Our Benefits
If you join us, you'll have access to a range of employee benefits. Read more about these here.
About The Role
We're offering an exciting opportunity to join our public health team as a Public Health Officer focused on insight and evaluation.
In this role, you'll lead a variety of qualitative research and evaluation projects that help us understand local needs and improve health services. Working with colleagues, you'll design and deliver research using methods such as surveys, interviews, and focus groups, and you'll analyse and interpret findings to generate clear, actionable insights and reports.
Your work will span a wide range of topics, including needs assessments, service evaluations, and understanding how local conditions affect health outcomes. You'll draw on behavioural science frameworks to explore people's experiences and identify barriers or enablers to accessing services or making healthy choices.
You'll also be involved in planning and conducting evaluations—developing logic models, producing well-structured reports, and helping ensure that findings are used to inform service design and improvement. While the role is primarily qualitative, you'll also work with quantitative data from surveys or service metrics when needed.
If you're keen to use evidence to make a meaningful impact in public health, we'd love to hear from you.
About The Team You'll Be Working In
The role sits within Hounslow's Behaviour Change and Population Health Management team, a multidisciplinary sub-team in Public Health comprising of analysts, behavioural scientists, and engagement specialists.
The team's remit is to transform data, evidence, research, and local insight into actionable intelligence to support evidence-based decision making, service design, and targeted interventions. Alongside this, the team plays a key role in evaluating services and interventions to understand their impact, generate learning, and inform future delivery.
Working across the Hounslow Borough Based Partnership, the team contributes to improving population health and reducing health inequalities by supporting a range of projects, such as vaccination uptake, sexual health, NHS Health Checks, falls prevention, and addressing the wider determinants of health.
This is an exciting opportunity to work at the intersection of public health and evidence, applying analytical expertise to inform decisions that improve population health outcomes in Hounslow.
This post reports to the Public Health, Behaviour Change Specialist role.
About You
If the points below resonate with you, we'd love you to put in an application:
You are:
1.Skilled in research, evaluation, and behavioural insight
You are confident in designing and delivering surveys, interviews, and focus groups, and in applying the right methods to answer research or evaluation questions. You can draw on behavioural science frameworks like COM-B when relevant, while recognising this is just one part of a broader research and evaluation skillset.
2.Experienced in planning and delivering evaluations that inform service improvement.
3.You are familiar with using frameworks such as logic models to design evaluations, collect and analyse data, and produce clear reports that translate findings into practical recommendations for services, interventions, or campaigns.
4.A strong communicator and collaborator
You are skilled at building effective working relationships, taking clear notes across a range of meetings and projects, and keeping stakeholders informed. You can present findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, and advise colleagues on research and evaluation approaches.
5.Organised and proactive in managing projects and time
You can manage multiple projects and relevant documentation simultaneously, balance competing priorities, and maintain progress within agreed timelines. You take a structured and focused approach to delivering high-quality work.
6.Committed to public health outcomes and continuous learning
You are enthusiastic about contributing to population health and reducing inequalities. You're keen to deepen your understanding of the health and care system and continue developing your technical skills.
7.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
If you have any further questions about the role, please contact:
Please note: Applications submitted via email, including CVs and cover letters, will not be considered. To be eligible, all applications must be completed through the online application form.
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 20th October 2025.
Please note we may close the application early if we receive high numbers of applications.