Job Details:
Job Reference: HCC623932
Salary Range: £48,948 - £54,423 per annum
Work Location: Elizabeth II Court, Winchester (Hybrid Working)
Hours per week: 37 (a minimum of 30 hours may be considered)
Contract Type: Temporary until 31 March 2028
Closing Date: 11 May 2026
Early applications are encouraged as we may close the advert ahead of the stated closing date.
The Role:
Joining our well-established and dynamic team as a passionate and skilled Senior Public Health Practitioner for Mental Wellbeing and Suicide Prevention, you’ll be supported to develop your career in Public Health. We lead ambitious, evidence-based programmes that support adult mental wellbeing, prevent suicide, and reduce inequalities in health outcomes across the county. Working collaboratively with partners from the NHS, voluntary and community sector, local authorities, and people with lived experience, we deliver meaningful, measurable change for Hampshire residents.
In this high-impact role, you’ll lead key programmes within our adult mental wellbeing and suicide prevention portfolio and have the opportunity to shape strategy, drive innovation, build strong partnerships and deliver programmes that make a real difference to people’s lives.
What you’ll do:
You will lead and coordinate key programmes within the adult mental wellbeing and suicide prevention portfolio, including:
1. Leading delivery of the Hampshire Mental Wellbeing Strategy and the Hampshire Suicide Prevention Plan, working across sectors to coordinate impactful multiagency programmes.
2. Overseeing and developing initiatives supporting adult mental wellbeing, including programmes focused on money and mental health, creativity, nature, green and blue spaces.
3. Providing strategic oversight of the Hampshire Men’s Suicide Prevention/Mental Wellbeing programme and the development of targeted interventions.
4. Leading commissioning and delivery of mental wellbeing and suicide prevention training (e.g., Connect 5, Suicide First Aid).
5. Shaping and delivering the adult mental wellbeing communications plan, including content management for the Mental Wellbeing Hampshire website.
6. Providing specialist public health advice to commissioners and partners, supporting evidence-based, outcome focused service design.
7. Managing relationships across NHS, local authorities, Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise partners and people with lived experience to deliver collaborative improvements.
8. Acting as the Public Health lead for a designated Districts Health & Wellbeing Partnership in addition to other identified strategic partnerships enabling local action regarding public health matters.
What we’re looking for:
9. A Master’s degree in a Public Health related field.
10. Significant public health knowledge, practice and experience within adult mental wellbeing/suicide prevention and population level public health.
11. Substantial project and programme management experience.
12. Experience of partnership working across multi-agency settings, including working with communities and people with lived experience.
13. Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to interpret and clearly present complex datasets, to ensure an evidence-based approach resulting in measurable outcomes across organisations.
14. Excellent communication, presentation, influencing and relationship building skills across diverse professional groups.
15. Understanding of local authority and the social and political environment.
Take a look at our Candidate Pack for more information about the Senior Public Health Practitioner for Mental Wellbeing and Suicide Prevention role, team and our values. The section ‘About you’ explains what specific knowledge, skills and experience we want you to tell us about. Make sure you explain how you meet these requirements and demonstrate our values, in your application.
Why join us?
16. Play a central role in tackling health inequalities and improving mental wellbeing for Hampshire’s residents.
17. Work within a supportive, expert team who are passionate about improving population health.
18. Work in a role that offers variety, challenge, and impact in high-profile areas of public health.
19. Benefit from professional development opportunities, flexible working, and a commitment to your personal growth.
20. Access to Health Assured's comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme to support your physical and mental wellbeing, including 24/7 telephone support, a suite of online resources, and legal and financial advice.
21. A competitive benefits package that includes generous annual leave entitlement, occupational sick pay, and access to the Local Government Pension Scheme. Find more information here.
Applicants can expect to hear from us within two weeks of the advertised closing date.
Please note: We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role and therefore it is essential that you already have the right to work in the UK before applying.
Travel Requirements:
You may be required to visit other locations within Hampshire, and therefore need to have the ability to travel, as necessary.
Values Based Recruitment:
We are passionate about our values:
22. Collaborative: Working together, combining talents and sharing resources to shape decisions and actions, and to maximise health outcomes.
23. Equalities-driven: Reducing inequalities and promoting equity in all we do, so that no one is left behind as we strive for better health and wellbeing.
24. Outcome focussed: Prioritising our work based on evidence, effectiveness and value for money to improve quality outcomes and prevent ill health.
25. Sustainable: Being future-focussed. Creating lasting change in local systems and communities. Developing our work through a climate change lens to achieve health and climate benefits.
We practice values-based recruitment in Public Health and invite you to evidence how you demonstrate our values in your application. The interview for the role will also be values based and will explore how you will be able to contribute to these.
Additional Information:
Senior Public Health Practitioner for Adult Mental Wellbeing and Suicide Prevention Candidate Pack
Contact Details for an Informal Discussion:
For general enquiries, please contact care.careers@hants.gov.uk
For an informal chat about the role, please contact Sarah Taylor, Public Health Principal on sarah.taylor3@hants.gov.uk
Hampshire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.
In order to combat discrimination, no unnecessary conditions or requirements will be applied which could have a disproportionately adverse effect on any one group. All sections of the population will have equal access to jobs. No applicant or employee will receive less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership and pregnancy or maternity, unless a Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR) applies.
We are a Disability Confident Employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.