Population Health Intelligence and Evidence Officer

Job description

Job responsibilities

About You

To be successful you will need experience of: partnership working; identifying, interpreting, synthesising and reporting evidence developing, implementing and managing programmes and projects; as well as evaluation skills.

Examples of projects this post might include are

Undertaking an evidence review of prevention approaches in healthy ageing.

Interpretation and communication of intelligence within health needs assessments.

Support to system groups to understand inequalities and make evidence-based recommendations.

Support the development of JSNA products through working with topic experts.

Develop an evaluation framework for falls prevention and high blood pressure identification.

Please read the job profile which provides further information on the experience and attributes sought of our ideal candidate.

The Public Health and Communities Hub support the Councils Agile working policy and expect team members to work a minimum of two days per week in the office, which is based in Gloucester, and to attend in person meetings as and when required. New starters will be required to come into the office more often in their first 3 weeks for induction.

About Us

For all of your hard work, you will receive the following:

Flexible and agile working opportunities, combination of home working and office working at Shire Hall, Gloucester, core working hours of Monday to Friday 09:30-16:00

Supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision

Annual Leave entitlement of 25.5 days excluding Bank Holidays (Public Health and Communities Hub do not work Bank Holidays)

Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme

Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone

Cycle to Work scheme

Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network, Black Workers Network, Young Employees Network

Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&C's apply)

How to apply

If you feel you have the skills, desire and experience required to make a positive difference then please submit your application and personal statement today.

Your application must include a CV, and a personal statement detailing how you meet the criteria in the job profile. Please limit your personal statement to a maximum of 1,200 words.

If you would like to have an informal discussion about the role please contact Jamie Fagg: Jamie.fagg@gloucestershire.gov.uk

Interviews are provisionally planned for last week of April/first week of May.

Additional Information

This position is not remote; therefore, candidates must reside in the UK and be able to work from the office based in central Gloucester.

Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershires diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.

It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a customer facing role must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree level or equivalent, preferably in a population health or related
• discipline, preferably involving health or social science research
• methods, health economics and/or statistics of quantitative analysis

Desirable

• Post graduate Public Health, Epidemiology or related qualifications or
• equivalent experience
• Experience of working in a health and/or social care system
• Project or Programme Management qualification or equivalent
• experience

Employer details

Employer name

Gloucestershire County Council

Address

Shire Hall

Gloucester

Gloucestershire

GL1 2TG

Employer's website

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