Senior Public Health Practitioner (Smoking Cessation)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Support the commissioning, implementation and delivery of public health programmes and projects, (within a defined field of public health e.g., smoking, early years, substance misuse, obesity, inequalities).

Support the development of strategy and plans for the commissioning of public health services, within their areas of responsibility.

Ensure that commissioning programmes improve resident outcomes and reflect and address the ethnicity and cultural diversity of the local population as well as address health inequalities.

Collate and analyse relevant demographic information, service trends, user consultation and feedback, as well as research about effective services to ensure that assessments of need, service development and planning are based on good practice and evidence.

Support the development of and/or strengthen partnership networks and relationships to share and integrate best practice on all matters relating to public health, providing project support for specific workstreams.

Provide support to key public health strategies and plans by delivering or commissioning public health projects and interventions.

Ensure interventions are based on evidence of need, led through Public Health intelligence and professional expertise aimed at improving Public Health outcomes.

Prepare and present reports and briefings to Members, senior management, programme boards and partnerships which include analysis of information and recommendations for corrective actions and continuous improvement.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of tackling health inequalities and
• delivering related outcomes within local authority and
• health settings, through direct delivery,
• commissioning practices, performance management
• and working in partnership.
• Knowledge of commissioning processes, from
• strategy and policy development, intervention design,
• procurement to performance management and
• evaluation
• Developing working knowledge of relevant analytical
• techniques within Public Health, including Population
• Health Management, and related areas, and proven
• application of them to a range of situations, including to inform service and strategy design and delivery,
• and programmes and projects.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with
• proven ability to work in partnership across
• boundaries to influence senior managers and other
• key stakeholders.
• Ability to work within teams within a flexible work
• environment.
• Programme and project management skills, alongside
• a developing understanding of budget management

Desirable

• Working to level 5 in the Skills for Health Career
• Framework for Public Health

Qualifications

Essential

• A formal qualification, preferably to a degree level, in
• a discipline relevant to the responsibilities of Public
• Health within a Local Authority context, or equivalent
• work experience.
• Demonstrated commitment to ongoing professional
• development.

Desirable

• Masters in Public Health (MPH) or equivalent related
• field.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

London Borough of Bexley

Address

Civic Offices

2 Watling Street

Bexleyheath

Kent

DA6 7AT

Employer's website

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