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Job Description
Contract Type: Maternity Leave Cover Fixed Term for 12 months
Working Hours: 22.2 hours per week
Worker Type: Hybrid Worker
Salary: Starting Salary is £54,971 (Level One) - £58,261 per annum (pro rata for part-time)
Location: Loxley House, Nottingham NG2 3NG
Are you passionate about making a difference to the health and wellbeing of Nottingham's communities? If so, we would love to hear from you!
We have an exciting opportunity for a talented individual to join our public health team. We are looking for an experienced Senior Public Health Manager to provide maternity leave cover within our Inclusion Health team.
What is Inclusion Health?
Led by a Helen, a Consultant in Public Health, the Inclusion Health team work on a wide range of public health agendas including: alcohol and drug use, mental health, suicide prevention, severe multiple disadvantage, homelessness, asylum seeker and refugee health, gambling, domestic abuse, violence reduction and work and health. It is a busy but important and rewarding area.
Alongside Helen the team includes a Public Health Principal, Senior Public Health Managers, Public Health Managers and an apprentice as well as a colleague working specifically on Severe Multiple Disadvantage as part of the Changing Futures Programme.
About the Role
You will work alongside your colleagues in the Inclusion Health team, as well as across the wider public health team and with partners, to lead a real and tangible difference to the lives of those in Nottingham who are most vulnerable. You will use a variety of methods to assess and understand their needs, influence and implement strategies, re-design services and pathways and evaluate our progress. You will use skills in commissioning and working effectively with partners to improve quality and outcomes for our population.
The successful post holder will lead on priorities within the Inclusion Health agenda including public mental health, self harm and suicide prevention, and on money, work and housing.
This post will have line manager responsibilities.
A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
This post is considered under Nottingham City Council's guidance as a 'hybrid worker' post. The post holder should anticipate a mix of home working and being in the office frequently to support collaboration. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional information for applicants page.
You can find the job description for this post here
About You
The ideal candidate will :
• be non-judgemental and understand the power and importance of kindness and showing respect in order to receive it. You need to be able to put yourself in the shoes of the people that the Inclusion Health team will be supporting and be committed to seeing the person and not the label.
• You also need to be committed to challenging inequality, understanding that inequality and experience of discrimination can have a big impact on a person's life and on how they engage with services and the support available.
• You need to be willing to listen in order to really hear and understand people's experiences, their views and ideas. You also need to have a real desire and willingness to learn and grow, with a commitment to your own personal development
What to do next:
• We will be holding a virtual event for people who would like to hear more about these roles and more generally about working as part of the public health team in Nottingham. There will be chance to hear from Helen Johnston, Consultant in Public Health, who leads the Inclusion Health team;
An information session regarding this post will be held on 7th July between 1-2pm please register your interest with sheona.goddard@nottinghamcity.gov.uk
* We are keen to give all applicants an opportunity to shine and show their full potential. Therefore, in addition to your application we are asking all applicants to send us their response to the following question:
"Thinking about where you live, what three things could or already do, make a big difference to the local community's health and wellbeing?"
You can provide this response in any format you like - it can be a word document (no more than 1500 words), a set of powerpoint slides, a short video or something else entirely! These should be emailed to sheona.goddard@nottinghamcity.gov.uk before the closing date and named using your applicant number (provided by either the NHS Jobs or EMSS Jobs system). Important - Applications will not be considered during shortlisting unless this requirement has been met.
For informal enquiries please contact Tammy Coles, Public Health Principal, tammy.coles@nottinghamcity.gov.uk.
Closing date for applications is 11.59pm on Sunday 13th July 2025
Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Interviews will be held: 23rd July 2025in person at Loxley House
If you have any technical issues when completing your application, please contact our Employee Service Centre: https://emss.org.uk/support
By applying to this job, you agree to our Terms & Conditions.
About Us
Thank you for your interest in working for Nottingham City Council. As one of the largest employers in Nottingham we offer a wide range of roles across a range of services. In return for your skill, drive and commitment to serving the people of Nottingham, we can help you to develop an exciting and rewarding career, with access to the following benefits.
In addition to working within a great team and a competitive salary you will have access to:
* 26 days annual leave (rising to 33 days after 5 years' service) + bank holidays with the ability to buy additional leave annually
* Access to a generous, defined benefit pension scheme offering 17.9%
* Smart Working - to support your work life balance
* Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme
* Discounted membership at selected local sports and fitness centres, cinema, shopping and much more!
Nottingham City Council is committed to recruiting a talented workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and with different abilities. We recruit for diversity and value difference.
We particularly want to hear from you if you are from Minority Ethnic communities, identify within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer+ community (LGBTQ+) and if you are Disabled - these groups of people are underrepresented in our workforce, and we'd like to reflect our local population more through our recruitment processes.
We are supportive of flexible working arrangements wherever possible and we would encourage you to discuss this with us during the selection process, should this be something you are interested in.
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