Public Health Officer - #61246

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Knowsley Council’s Public Health team, ideal for someone who wishes to start a career in public health or those wishing to develop their career further.

The public health team is responsible for providing leadership on health improvement and health protection to reduce health inequalities and improve health outcomes for residents. It does this through influencing and working across the council and with partners to promote health behaviours, embed a health in all policies approach and deliver system approaches to improve health outcomes.

Come join the small public health team and be a crucial part of the team.

The post will be responsible for providing support to public health leads across a breadth of public health programmes, projects and activities. This will include ensuring specific tasks are planned, managed, monitored and evaluated. Undertaking research, analysis, drafting reports and managing action plans. Plus supporting in meetings, opportunities to work with a range of internal and external partners. Topics will be varied but may include supporting planning and responses to health protection matters, activity related to influencing policy and practice regarding the social determinants of health, public health campaigns and health improvement programmes.

This unique post is a career-graded post that can be undertaken at H, J or K grade with a variety of tasks as set out in the job description and relevant skills and experience detailed in person specification.

Along with your CV, please describe in a covering letter your suitability for the post (maximum 2 sides A4).

We promote applications from all sections of the community, regardless of background, belief, or identity, recognising the value that diversity brings to our organisation. We particularly welcome applications from individuals from Black and Minority Ethnic backgrounds and candidates with disabilities as we acknowledge their underrepresentation in our workforce.

We will consider requests for flexible working. For most roles, the following types of flexibility are usually possible: flexible hours, working from home, compressed hours, part-time.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the specified date should we receive sufficient applicants.

At Knowsley we value our applicants and want them to feel well-informed and welcomed. If you have any questions about this specific job role or what it is like to work at Knowsley, please contact Esther Hindley at **************@knowsley.gov.uk on 0151 443 2378 or alternatively Richard Holford at ***************@knowsley.gov.uk on 0151 443 4992

Interviews will be held on 15th and 16th May 2024 at Huyton Municipal Building, Archway Road, Huyton.