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Salary:£38,626 - £40,476
Hours per week:37 hours
Interview date:Week commencing Monday 28 July 2025
Public Health - Championing Community Well-being
Were offering an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the health and wellbeing of Wiltshires population. Join our Building Resilience Team as a Public Health Practitioner and become a key player in embedding public health principles across all public services.
In this role, youll lead, and support programmes aimed at improving mental wellbeing, enhancing emotional resilience, and reducing substance use. A particular focus will be on suicide harm prevention and addressing avoidable or near deaths involving multiple risk factors, including substance use. Your work will align with local public health priorities and will be rooted in prevention, reducing health inequalities, and supporting vulnerable communities.
Main duties of the job
Youll be responsible for identifying local needs and using evidence-based approaches to develop targeted interventions that improve health outcomes, particularly around mental wellbeing and co-existing conditions such as substance use. This role requires someone who can work independently and proactively, bringing innovative thinking to complex challenges. Youll build strong partnerships with internal teams, external organisations, and local communities, and contribute to strategic planning and service development through evidence-based practice.
Were looking for a passionate and self-driven professional with experience in using evidence to shape and develop interventions that meet the needs of local communities. You should be confident working in a fast-paced, evolving environment, and bring creativity, commitment, and a genuine desire to make a difference. If you thrive in collaborative settings and value partnership working, wed love to hear from you.
About us
Wiltshire Council is a friendly, welcoming place to work, with a 'One Council' ethos. Thats why we focus on getting the things that matter to our people right
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To provide public health practitioner advice, guidance and support to colleagues and
volunteers to ensure whole team achievements are met.
- To lead on communication of relevant public health information to the services keypartners and commissioned services.
- To represent the Public Health Team and the Council at agreed partnership events,
partnership Boards, multi-agency working groups, professional groups and other fora;
this may involve chairing and / or facilitating multi-agency working groups.
- To support the work of existing partnerships (and develop new ones where appropriate
in response to specific defined needs) and provide practitioner level public health
advice to partners and other key stakeholders.
- To develop and lead on marketing campaigns for public health services, utilizing
opportunities to promote the service to key partners including Primary Care, Secondary
Care, community and voluntary sector.
- To be a source of knowledge and expertise in particular public health topic areas
through resource production, project management, training, contributing to websites
and disseminating information to partner organisations.
- Contribute to writing topic related reports to inform Council, partner organisations and
government bodies e.g., Cabinet, Department of Health, UK Health Security Agency,
Integrated Care Boards etc. and contribute specialist topic information to annual public
health reports, strategic documents and other reports as required.
- To keep up to date with the evidence base of effective practice, in particular relating to
specific public health topic areas and public health competencies. This will be gained
through literature searches, critical appraisal of literature, conferences, networking,
journal clubs, professional body communications etc.
- To comply with professional body codes of conduct e.g., UK Public Health Register
(UKPHR), Faculty of Public Health (FPH), Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH),
Health Professions Council etc. as appropriate
- The post holder will be prepared to support the wider public health team in the event of
threats to health protection and emergencies that threaten public health.
- The post holder will be able to identify, assess and mitigate against any risks
associated with the projects and programmes within their remit.
- Provide advice and guidance to senior managers on a broad range of challenging
operational issues and propose remedial actions
- Commissioning or develop training, workshops and presentations and / or roadshows
to stakeholders and team members.
- To work flexibly across the public health team to meet the demands of the service
- To support the targeted intervention to high priority groups, for example pregnant
women, people with mental health problems, young people, and minority groups.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To provide public health practitioner advice, guidance and support to colleagues and
volunteers to ensure whole team achievements are met.
- To lead on communication of relevant public health information to the services keypartners and commissioned services.
- To represent the Public Health Team and the Council at agreed partnership events,
partnership Boards, multi-agency working groups, professional groups and other fora;
this may involve chairing and / or facilitating multi-agency working groups.
- To support the work of existing partnerships (and develop new ones where appropriate
in response to specific defined needs) and provide practitioner level public health
advice to partners and other key stakeholders.
- To develop and lead on marketing campaigns for public health services, utilizing
opportunities to promote the service to key partners including Primary Care, Secondary
Care, community and voluntary sector.
- To be a source of knowledge and expertise in particular public health topic areas
through resource production, project management, training, contributing to websites
and disseminating information to partner organisations.
- Contribute to writing topic related reports to inform Council, partner organisations and
government bodies e.g., Cabinet, Department of Health, UK Health Security Agency,
Integrated Care Boards etc. and contribute specialist topic information to annual public
health reports, strategic documents and other reports as required.
- To keep up to date with the evidence base of effective practice, in particular relating to
specific public health topic areas and public health competencies. This will be gained
through literature searches, critical appraisal of literature, conferences, networking,
journal clubs, professional body communications etc.
- To comply with professional body codes of conduct e.g., UK Public Health Register
(UKPHR), Faculty of Public Health (FPH), Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH),
Health Professions Council etc. as appropriate
- The post holder will be prepared to support the wider public health team in the event of
threats to health protection and emergencies that threaten public health.
- The post holder will be able to identify, assess and mitigate against any risks
associated with the projects and programmes within their remit.
- Provide advice and guidance to senior managers on a broad range of challenging
operational issues and propose remedial actions
- Commissioning or develop training, workshops and presentations and / or roadshows
to stakeholders and team members.
- To work flexibly across the public health team to meet the demands of the service
- To support the targeted intervention to high priority groups, for example pregnant
women, people with mental health problems, young people, and minority groups.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A first degree or qualification of equivalent academic ability or the ability to demonstrate equivalent skills and experience relevant to Public Health
- Experience of project management
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Experience working in the field of public health or related area
- Good working knowledge of different aspects of public health
- Understanding of local government, NHS, public, voluntary and community sector
- Experience of developing and delivering training, group and 121 programmes and / or community development programmes
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to write reports and deliver presentations to a wide range of audiences
- Excellent interpersonal skills and influencing skills with proven ability to build and maintain effective working relationships (internally and externally) and facilitate groups
- To have the ability to innovate, providing creative resolutions to solving problems, proactively anticipate problems and deliver solutions which enhance the quality and efficiency of public health services and projects and uphold the reputation of the council
- Ability to analyse and interpret and evaluate information to inform effective decision making
- Excellent ICT skills including the use of Microsoft applications and any relevant specialist systems
Desirable
- To be registered or working towards registration at practitioner level with UKPHR
- Experience of working with health inclusion groups, for example pregnant women people with mental health problems, people with learning disabilities and children and young people
- Up to date knowledge of relevant legislation and guidance in relation to working with and the safeguarding of children/vulnerable adults.
- Demonstrates an understanding of the key public health information relating to Wiltshire.
- Experience of working collaboratively with service providers and other setting to assess and manage risk and plan mitigating activity.
- Experience of building and developing effective stakeholder relationships.
- Experience of commissioning or contract management.
- Experience of working in community settings and with health care providers
- Knowledge or understanding of risk management and associated reporting
- Experience of supporting/assisting the development of training and/or education
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A first degree or qualification of equivalent academic ability or the ability to demonstrate equivalent skills and experience relevant to Public Health
- Experience of project management
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Experience working in the field of public health or related area
- Good working knowledge of different aspects of public health
- Understanding of local government, NHS, public, voluntary and community sector
- Experience of developing and delivering training, group and 121 programmes and / or community development programmes
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to write reports and deliver presentations to a wide range of audiences
- Excellent interpersonal skills and influencing skills with proven ability to build and maintain effective working relationships (internally and externally) and facilitate groups
- To have the ability to innovate, providing creative resolutions to solving problems, proactively anticipate problems and deliver solutions which enhance the quality and efficiency of public health services and projects and uphold the reputation of the council
- Ability to analyse and interpret and evaluate information to inform effective decision making
- Excellent ICT skills including the use of Microsoft applications and any relevant specialist systems
Desirable
- To be registered or working towards registration at practitioner level with UKPHR
- Experience of working with health inclusion groups, for example pregnant women people with mental health problems, people with learning disabilities and children and young people
- Up to date knowledge of relevant legislation and guidance in relation to working with and the safeguarding of children/vulnerable adults.
- Demonstrates an understanding of the key public health information relating to Wiltshire.
- Experience of working collaboratively with service providers and other setting to assess and manage risk and plan mitigating activity.
- Experience of building and developing effective stakeholder relationships.
- Experience of commissioning or contract management.
- Experience of working in community settings and with health care providers
- Knowledge or understanding of risk management and associated reporting
- Experience of supporting/assisting the development of training and/or education
