Advanced Public Health Practitioner

Job summary

As an Advanced Public Health Practitioner, you will support the prevention / promotion agenda within the Living and Working Well Team in being at the forefront of key strategies and programmes that impact on the health and wellbeing of the population whilst contributing to the planning and implementation of health improvement initiatives that impact on health and wellbeing.

You will be the lead specialist for your own health improvement area(s) and will support the Public Health Lead to identify the priorities for health improvement programmes across a range of organisations and community groups, developing long-term plans for health improvement. Some of your work could include:

• promoting the involvement of the public in the development and evaluation of your public health improvement activities
• evaluating the effectiveness of your activities by undertaking detailed public health audits and public surveys, and analysing the results
• using evidence to provide highly specialised advice to organisations and communities
• planning, developing and monitoring specialist services (such as NHS Health Checks and Integrated Health Improvement Services)
• communicating important public health messages and marketing their service to relevant groups and communities
• working closely with other agencies to achieve their aims
• monitoring and evaluating the impact and outcomes of health improvement programmes and initiatives

Main duties of the job

The Public Health Department is a progressive multi-disciplinary department committed to improving health and tackling inequalities in West Sussex. The Departments key role is to protect and improve lifelong health and wellbeing of everyone in West Sussex, by commissioning evidence-based services and empowering people to make healthier choices."

The Living and Working Well Team lead and deliver the following key areas:

• Healthy Weight
• Tobacco Control
• Integrated health improvement services
• Workplace health
• NHS Health Checks
• Physical Activity
• Supporting behaviour change and Making Every Contact Count

• You may be expected to manage a budget and will be involved in staff recruitment and management.
• Youll need to demonstrate a sound understanding of local government and partnership working.
• You will have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and be able to confidently write for different audiences and purposes. You will be able to influence and persuade a wide range of stakeholders.
• You will thrive on working on your own initiative, whilst working within broad practice, using your discretion to develop and determine the overall services provided to the customer and assist with creation and implementation of necessary policies and procedures linked to the service.

About us

As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this we want to help support your development and provide an great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:

• an excellentlocal government pension scheme
• generous holiday entitlement of 30 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
• arange of flexible working options, depending on your job role
• maternity, paternity, dependencyand adoption leave

Employer details

Employer name

West Sussex County Council

Address

West Sussex County Council

County Hall

West Street

Chichester

West Sussex

PO19 1RG

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

West Sussex County Council

Address

West Sussex County Council

County Hall

West Street

Chichester

West Sussex

PO19 1RG

Employer's website

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

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