Overview
Contract Type: Permanent. Derby Public Health Department is a forward-looking team with ambitions to improve the health and wellbeing of our city's population and reduce health inequalities through working collaboratively with local people, communities and partners. The post of Public Health Support Officer provides an opportunity to use and develop a wide range of skills, knowledge, and experience including project management, data management and analysis, working with a wide variety of partners, report-writing and presentation. The postholder will primarily support our work in relation to children and young people, and sexual health. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your public health knowledge and experience of these areas, and public health more broadly, and is an ideal opportunity for those looking to progress a career in public health.
In the role of Public Health Support Officer, you will support the Public Health team with the management of a range of programmes of work, particularly in relation to children and young people and sexual health.
Responsibilities
* Provide project management and support for a range of Public Health programmes and initiatives.
* Collate, analyse and interpret a range of different data sources and information to support evidence-based public health planning and delivery.
* Contribute to the effective monitoring and evaluation of public health programmes and initiatives.
* Support the involvement of key community stakeholders, service users and support partner organisations in the development and delivery of programmes to promote health and related activities to tackle health inequalities.
* Support in the development of reports, presentations and other materials to enable effective communication with, and engagement of, key stakeholders.
* Support the planning, organisation, and facilitation of engagement events, meetings, conferences, seminars and workshops. This could include support to become a registered public health practitioner on the UK Public Health Register.
Qualifications / Skills
* Have excellent verbal and written communication.
* Be highly numerate with the ability to analyse and synthesise complex information and report and present it in a manner appropriate to the audience.
* Have good analytical and problem-solving skills.
* Have excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage priorities within often challenging deadlines.
* Have a broad understanding of project management principles or have experience of undertaking project management work.
* Have experience of working (or equivalent experience) in a local authority, the NHS wider public sector or similar setting.
* Have the ability to self-motivate, work independently and prioritise own workload.
* Be educated to degree level or have equivalent level of experience.
Important Information
Links to the full Job Description and Person Specification are below. All employees will normally be appointed to the minimum of the grade for the job. Before you complete your application, please read our Remember to align your personal statement to the essential criteria in the Person Specification. Please be aware that where there are colleagues within the organisation who are at risk of redundancy, requirements to redeploy to another suitable role will apply and take priority.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. We recruit for diversity and value difference. As many of our roles can now be home-based, we are able to offer more opportunities for people who need this facility. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you are a disabled person, you have the choice to apply under our Guaranteed Interview Scheme so long as you demonstrate that you meet the essential requirements for the job. We feel it is essential that we recruit a talented workforce that is as diverse as the community we work for. Please let us know of any individual requirements or reasonable adjustments you may have during the application, interview, or onboarding process and we’ll do all we can to help. We strongly believe in social understanding of disability and for us it’s all about removing barriers to equality. If you have any questions regarding this vacancy or are having difficulties applying, please contact us.
What We Offer
Here at Derby City Council, we’re dedicated to delivering nearly 250 first-class services to citizens and businesses in the heart of the Midlands. People are at the centre of all that we do, and we have an outstanding track record of recruiting and developing talented individuals by providing them with varied and fulfilling career opportunities. We offer:
* Flexible work/life balance scheme
* Hybrid working
* Modern office environment
* Continued professional development opportunities & career conversations
* 27 days annual leave (rising to 32 days after 5 years’ service), plus bank holidays
* Local Government Pension Scheme
* Team Derby Rewards - retail and leisure discounts
* Tusker Car Benefit Scheme
* Cycle2Work Scheme & free cycle training
* Employee Assistance Programme, Wellbeing Calendar and Support
* Access to Equality Employee Networks - LGBTQ+, Disabled Employee Network & Carers and our BME Network and Neurodiversity Network
* Support for colleagues who are carers
#J-18808-Ljbffr