About the role
Public Health North Northamptonshire are looking to appoint a Public Health Officer to the Public Health Children’s and Young People’s Team to work on the coordination of oral health improvement. You will play a key part in improving the health of residents in North Northamptonshire, through prevention, early intervention and health improvement approaches across the health and social care economy and support the implementation of evidence based public health programmes/interventions to improve health and reduce health inequalities in relation to oral health.
We are looking for a passionate individual who is experienced in, public health, health, or social care to work across North Northamptonshire and has a good working knowledge of the National oral health agenda. The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills to work collaboratively with key stakeholders across a network of settings, within these relationships you need to represent the values of the team, you will need to have effective interpersonal and influencing skills and able to build relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels.
As a Public Health Officer, you will play a key role in identifying effective evidence-based interventions and reviewing practice to improve oral health outcomes for children and families, whilst reducing health inequalities. This role will focus on developing partnerships with children and young people's nursery/educational settings and health system partners and providing officer support to the commissioned work within children, young people’s and adult services. You will be expected to travel to various locations across the county. You will work with colleagues from dental practice, local authorities, social care, education, NHS and voluntary sector organisations
You will report to the Public Health Practitioner for Maternity, Children and Young People and will work across the Children’s Portfolio to support the team and organisation in achieving the desired outcomes.
This is a fixed term appointment for an 18-month period.
Your application should be structured on the essential and desirable criteria in the job description.
The closing date for this post is Monday 17th June 2024.
In-person interviews will be held on Friday 28th June 2024.
If you have any further questions about this role, please contact Amy Fitzpatrick amy.fitzpatrick@northnorthants.gov.uk.
What will you be doing?
Principal Responsibilities
1. Manage key pieces of public health development work, in line with local and national priorities and emerging legislation, to meet Public Health and Wellbeing Service Plans and national and local public health strategy.
2. Provide process redesign expertise to the Public Health team and be accountable for the planning, co-ordination, facilitation and monitoring of public health change or improvement projects; developing capability and capacity to embed service improvement tools and techniques supporting the continuous modernisation and redesign of traditional service.
3. Identify opportunities to improve and/or simplify directorate processes and seek to remedy these through improved processes, compliance or coaching.
4. Represent Public Health within Local Area Partnerships across North Northamptonshire
5. Contribute to project planning within specific public health priority areas, ensuring that a clear and transparent plan is maintained and managed using NNC project management methodology to track progress, in order to maintain control of delivering improved services using cost effective processes.
6. Support health improvement initiatives through engaging clinicians, commissioners and local authority providers in new initiatives to change behaviour, increasing public awareness of risk factors and health promotion.
7. Support health protection planning and the local public health response to
major incidents, disease outbreaks or other public health incidents.
8. Monitor changing guidance at a national and regional level, bring attention to
the public health areas it will impact and tailor the public health programme
according to the population need with the aim of reducing health inequalities.
About you
Education, Qualifications and Training
Essential Criteria
- Educated to degree level in a management related discipline or hold a professional qualification (such as finance or procurement) at a similar level
- A formal qualification in or working towards a Public Health or related discipline
- Prince2 Practitioner Level or Equivalent
Desirable Criteria
- MSc in Public Health or equivalent
Experience and Knowledge
Essential Criteria
- Able to demonstrate a good understanding of NHS and local authority policy, statutory duties and responsibilities.
- Able to demonstrate understanding of public health areas of responsibility and functions.
- Able to demonstrate understanding of public health practice, health promotion and health care evaluation.
- Able to demonstrate knowledge of evidence based public health practice.
Desirable Criteria
- Experience of full cycle experience of managing projects and leading task and finish groups.
Ability and Skills
Essential Criteria
- Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills (for a range of audiences from senior management to the media).
- Sensible negotiator with practical expectation of what can be achieved
- Excellent interpersonal and motivational skills with the ability to influence and negotiate.
- Ability for presenting complex information to groups and in a simplified way
- Computer literate.
Desirable Criteria
- The ability to manage and/or work on a number of concurrent projects.
- Able to act independently, with some guidance from line manager.
Equal Opportunities
Ability to demonstrate awareness/understanding of equal opportunities and other people’s behaviour, physical, social and welfare needs.
Additional Factors
Essential Criteria
- Able to demonstrate experience of working in NHS or local government cultures and structures.
- Experience of working with health and/ or social care professionals to deliver service improvement.
Desirable Criteria
- Experience of full cycle experience of managing projects and leading task and finish groups.
Our benefits
We offer:
- a competitive salary
- a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
- opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
- generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
- agile and flexible working arrangements to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
About us
We are a new unitary council, established in April 2021; we are one of the largest unitary councils in the country. Our vision for North Northants is to be 'A place where everyone has the best opportunities and quality of life'.
Our priorities are:
- helping people live active fulfilled lives
- caring for our young people, providing them with high quality education and opportunities
- enabling a thriving and successful economy
- leading on a green and sustainable environment
- ensuring our communities are connected so they can shape their lives and where they live
- providing modern public services
Our values, as chosen by our staff, are - Customer-focused, Respectful, Efficient, Supportive and Trustworthy.
Your differences make us different - Achieve Together.
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