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Salary:£46,142 - £48,226
Hours per week:37 hours
Interview date:Friday 12 September 2025
Main duties of the job
Public Health Protecting and Improving Health
Be part of shaping an approach that tackles the complexities of public health challenges head-on!
We have an exciting opportunity to improve the health and wellbeing and protect the health of the Wiltshire population and help us put public health at the heart of all public services.
Working as a Health Protection Public Health Specialist you will build capacity across multiple agendas across health protection and sexual health including blood borne viruses, HIV prevention, population screening programmes, health emergency planning, environmental hazards to health and communicable disease epidemiology.
As a specialist, you will be responsible for driving key agendas, with an emphasis on prevention and tackling health inequalities. You will work with minimal supervision and be self-motivated identifying innovative practice. Furthermore, you will be integral to developing strong relationships, working in partnership with both internal and external partners and our local population to improve health outcomes.
We are looking for an experienced Public Health professional who holds a first degree or qualifications of equivalent academic ability with a proven record in leading strategic delivery, project management and working in multi-agency health forums. It would be an advantage to be registered or working towards registration at practitioner level with UKPHR and/or masters in public health.
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.The council is committed to creating an environment of positive working relationships where everyone feels engaged, supported and able to thrive. Our Identity is a framework which sets out how we are all expected to lead, work and act to deliver our services. We will not tolerate discrimination, bullying or harassment of any kind. Everyone is expected to promote a culture of inclusion, dignity, trust and respect which is underpinned by our vision and Our Identity framework.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Specific duties and responsibilities include:
- To have the autonomy to determine the needs of the population, assess options for
managing the public health needs of the population, commission services, interventions,
and programmes as appropriate.
- To act as contract manager and liaison for the services, interventions, and programmes
they contact, evaluating outcomes, performance managing, and dealing with the overall
management and delivery of projects within the allocated resources.
- To provide specialist advice to the strategic development and implementation of health
improvement and wider determinants strategies, implementation plans and action plans in
line with national and local indicators linked to the Public Health Outcomes Framework.
- To provide public health specialist advice, guidance and support to colleagues and
volunteers to ensure whole team objectives are met
- To lead on the identification of public health needs using various methodologies e.g. health
needs assessment, health equity audits, reviews and evaluations of programmes and / or
interventions directed at areas of responsibility.
- To assess, analyse and interpret national and local data and evidence to develop and
evaluate Wiltshire based public health interventions, programmes and / or projects.
- To promote the health improvement, health protection and inequalities reduction agendas
across the council, ICB, and with other partners, seeking to increase the engagement of all
council staff and partners in working to improve and protect health e.g. through
communicating complex and potentially sensitive or controversial information to diverse
groups, persuading and negotiating on a range of issues and topics and working with the
media.
- To represent the public health team and the council at agreed partnership events,
partnership Boards, multi-agency working groups, professional groups and other for a; 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 specialist public health advice to partners
and other key stakeholders.
- To develop wider public health capacity by communicating and promoting health protection
messages through presentations, evidence-based practice, audits and published research
and providing specialised advice and knowledge through the development of and
participation in training programmes, workshops, conferences and seminars etc.
- To be a source of specialist knowledge in particular public health topic areas through
resource production, project management, training, contributing to websites and
disseminating information to partner organisations.
- To contribute to topic related reports to inform council, partner organisations and
government bodies e.g. cabinet, Department of Health and Social Care, UK Health Security
Agency, ICB 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 may have responsibility for the supervision of junior staff, public health
trainees and students to support their educational needs including personal development
plans, objective setting and monitoring quality and quantity of work as required.
- To be prepared to work within a matrix management approach i.e. may have notional
responsibility for an area but postholder may be requested to work on priorities as
determined by the service.
- The post holder may be asked to deputise on occasions for the Public Health Principal as
well as for other team members as required.
- 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 maybe expected to be involved in the commissioning and/or delivery of
research and evaluate existing public health projects and programmes.
- 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 issues and propose
remedial actions
- Commissioning / develop training, workshops and presentations and / or roadshows to both
internal and external stakeholders
Job description
Job responsibilities
Specific duties and responsibilities include:
- To have the autonomy to determine the needs of the population, assess options for
managing the public health needs of the population, commission services, interventions,
and programmes as appropriate.
- To act as contract manager and liaison for the services, interventions, and programmes
they contact, evaluating outcomes, performance managing, and dealing with the overall
management and delivery of projects within the allocated resources.
- To provide specialist advice to the strategic development and implementation of health
improvement and wider determinants strategies, implementation plans and action plans in
line with national and local indicators linked to the Public Health Outcomes Framework.
- To provide public health specialist advice, guidance and support to colleagues and
volunteers to ensure whole team objectives are met
- To lead on the identification of public health needs using various methodologies e.g. health
needs assessment, health equity audits, reviews and evaluations of programmes and / or
interventions directed at areas of responsibility.
- To assess, analyse and interpret national and local data and evidence to develop and
evaluate Wiltshire based public health interventions, programmes and / or projects.
- To promote the health improvement, health protection and inequalities reduction agendas
across the council, ICB, and with other partners, seeking to increase the engagement of all
council staff and partners in working to improve and protect health e.g. through
communicating complex and potentially sensitive or controversial information to diverse
groups, persuading and negotiating on a range of issues and topics and working with the
media.
- To represent the public health team and the council at agreed partnership events,
partnership Boards, multi-agency working groups, professional groups and other for a; 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 specialist public health advice to partners
and other key stakeholders.
- To develop wider public health capacity by communicating and promoting health protection
messages through presentations, evidence-based practice, audits and published research
and providing specialised advice and knowledge through the development of and
participation in training programmes, workshops, conferences and seminars etc.
- To be a source of specialist knowledge in particular public health topic areas through
resource production, project management, training, contributing to websites and
disseminating information to partner organisations.
- To contribute to topic related reports to inform council, partner organisations and
government bodies e.g. cabinet, Department of Health and Social Care, UK Health Security
Agency, ICB 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 may have responsibility for the supervision of junior staff, public health
trainees and students to support their educational needs including personal development
plans, objective setting and monitoring quality and quantity of work as required.
- To be prepared to work within a matrix management approach i.e. may have notional
responsibility for an area but postholder may be requested to work on priorities as
determined by the service.
- The post holder may be asked to deputise on occasions for the Public Health Principal as
well as for other team members as required.
- 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 maybe expected to be involved in the commissioning and/or delivery of
research and evaluate existing public health projects and programmes.
- 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 issues and propose
remedial actions
- Commissioning / develop training, workshops and presentations and / or roadshows to both
internal and external stakeholders
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
