Public Health Senior Practitioner (Nutrition) HCC622247

Job summary

Joining our well-established and dynamic team as a Senior Public Health Practitioner Nutrition, youll be supported to develop your career in Public Health. Youll play a vital role in addressing health inequalities and preventing ill-health in our communities by delivering key ambitions within our Public Health Strategy. As part of the wider Hampshire Public Health team, youll work in a collaborative and innovative environment that values continuous improvement and impact.

Main duties of the job

Lead and deliver key public health programmes that include:

• Public health nutrition programmes: Lead and commission nutrition programmes focussing on increasing fruit and vegetable intake, training people working with vulnerable groups such as older adults and people with learning disabilities, and marketing of low-cost healthy food options.
• Food insecurity:Provide technical advice and support to the Hampshire Food Alliance ensuring good nutrition is embedded into local response tofood insecurity and helping partners use data and evidence to shape effective place-based responses.
• Whole systems approaches: Work with multi-agency partners to develop and implement whole systems approaches to healthy weight.
• Provision of up-to-date technical advice and support: Develop partnerships with, and provide up-to-date guidance to the public health team, professionals working with children, older adults and other inequalities groups, NHS providers and food support providers. This includes advising how Government policy, emerging research, data trends and industry practice affect public health objectives.

Support the wider work of the public health team by:

• Working in a matrix structure to support the wider teams functions and priorities, including the Hampshire Public Health Strategy.
• Providing technical advice and support to teams working in a range of portfolio areas.
• Building and maintaining strong partnerships with a range of professionals and organisations.

About us

At Hampshire County Council our unique Public Health Team are passionate about delivering dynamic public health initiatives. We know that performing our statutory duty to improve the health of our diverse local population and tackle health inequalities offers a fantastic sense of both personal and job satisfaction.

We are working with our varied external partners to look at how we can further develop our innovative interventions to meet the changing needs of our communities. Prevention is at the heart of our Public Health Strategy as we strive to seek opportunities to understand local health and wellbeing issues and to embed sustainable solutions for our future generations.

Employer details

Employer name

Hampshire County Council

Address

Elizabeth II Court

The Castle

Winchester

Hampshire

SO23 8UB

Employer's website

https://www.hants.gov.uk/jobs (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Hampshire County Council

Address

Elizabeth II Court

The Castle

Winchester

Hampshire

SO23 8UB

Employer's website

https://www.hants.gov.uk/jobs (Opens in a new tab)

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