Job Information
Job Title: Public Health Principal
Service: Public Health, Stronger Communities and Inequalities
Location: County Hall, Morpeth, Northumberland
Salary: Local Authority Band 13 (£67,437 to £71,008)
Status: Fixed Term – 4 years
Hours: 37 hours
Are you passionate about improving people’s health and wellbeing? Are you seeking to become a public health specialist via the UKPHR portfolio route?
We are looking to recruit an experienced and ambitious Public Health Principal to join our knowledgeable and forward-thinking public health team. This will be an exciting opportunity to lead on children and young people's public health, all age public mental health and suicide prevention, and aspects of health protection. They will work closely with our two Consultants in Public Health and report to our Executive Director of Public Health, Stronger Communities and Inequalities.
This is a developmental position, and the post holder should be actively pursuing public health specialist registration though the portfolio route. They will be expected to achieve specialist UKPHR registration by the end of the 4-year fixed term period.
The post holder will be an experienced public health professional with excellent leadership and technical skills who can develop and maintain positive relationships with stakeholders across the public and VCSE sectors, including children and young people services, UK Health Security Agency, and with communities. They will be able to provide expert public health support and whole system leadership to ensure an evidence-based approach for commissioning and developing high quality and equitable services.
The post holder is also expected to play a central role in our strengths-based approach to tackling inequalities and wider corporate responsibilities. In Northumberland tackling inequalities is one of three corporate priorities and we have established a 20 year generational change mission. Working to a strengths-based model of asset based community development (ABCD) we are also working with the Institute of Health Equity to ensure the Marmot eight policy objectives frame our partnership and system work.
Northumberland is world-renowned as a visitor destination and an ideal location to strike a perfect work/life balance. The diversity of the County means in many ways we are like a small country having urban, rural and coastal areas. We are commutable with good road and rail links to County Hall, Morpeth.
For an informal discussion please email sandra.blackwood@northumberland.gov.uk who will arrange a time for a phone call with Gill O’Neill. Executive Director of Public Health.
Times of work: 9 am - 5 pm (some evening work) Weekly working hours: 37 hours
Closing Date: 1st October 2024
Interview Date: 7th and 8th October 2024
Further information
For guidance on completing your application and for information about our Equality and Diversity principles, please see the attached guidance notes here.
We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We operate a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. If you wish to notify us of your eligibility for this scheme, please email hrrecruitment@northumberland.gov.uk or ring 01670 623930 with your name and the job title you have applied for and one of the recruitment team will ensure this is factored into the shortlisting process and kept anonymous. If you have a disability and would prefer to apply in a different format, please see the alternative methods below. This information will be treated as confidential and will only be used to check that you meet the essential requirements of the post.
Alternative application format:
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