Public Health Practitioner

What will you be doing?

As a Public Health Practitioner, you will play a key role in delivering and shaping evidence-based public health programmes and interventions. You will support prevention and early intervention work, helping to improve outcomes for local communities.

You will:

• Contribute to the design and delivery of health improvement initiatives
• Support strategic planning and innovative approaches to public health
• Help embed the value of prevention across council services
• Work collaboratively with partners across health, social care, voluntary and community sectors
• Provide technical and system-wide expertise within your specialist area (Adult Health Improvement or Children and Young People)

These roles offer a valuable opportunity to influence real change at a system level, working across organisations to tackle health inequalities and improve population health.

About you

We are looking for motivated individuals who bring:

• Relevant experience in public health, health improvement or a related field
• Knowledge of evidence-based practice and population health approaches
• Strong partnership working and communication skills
• The ability to work both strategically and operationally
• A passion for improving health outcomes and reducing inequalities

You will be part of a supportive team but also contribute to the wider public health agenda, bringing your expertise to cross-cutting work.

Our benefits

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!

Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• 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.
• lots of 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
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About us

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

Disability Confident Employer

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.  

Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council

Armed Forces Community 

The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)