Public Health Officer

Salary: £35,411 to £38,296 per annum
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Pattern: Full Time (37 hours per week) Hybrid and Flexible Working
Location: County Hall, West Street, Chichester, PO19 1RQ

Interview Date: Tuesday 27 June and Wednesday 28 June (face to face interviews will take place at County Hall, Chichester)

We have a new opportunity for someone to join our Public Health directorate. This directorate is a progressive, specialist, multi-disciplinary department, and is committed to improving health and reducing inequalities in West Sussex. This role requires someone with excellent communication and organisational skills, with the ability to understand and communicate complex information to a range of audiences.

Does this this sounds like the type of challenge that you are looking for? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

All West Sussex County Council (WSCC) employees have a WSCC location as their contractual work location, however we do operate a ‘Smarter working’ approach, this is something that you agree locally with your manager, for what works best for you, your role and your team. More details will be shared once you start working.

Under the direction of the Public Health Strategy Manager, you’ll have a central role in supporting the function of public health policy and strategic planning within the Directorate. A wide and varied role, you’ll focus on several areas of work at once, ensuring they are delivered on time and to a high standard, including supporting the successful delivery of public health programmes and projects, drafting responses to correspondence, minute-taking, and leading the planning and coordinating of events, such as Health and Wellbeing Board seminars.

In this role, you will analyse data and collate information to inform briefings, reports, and presentations.

You will also develop internal and external communications, be responsible for the Public Health social media channels and be involved in health promotion and engagement activities.

You will be reliable, motivated individual, with experience of working in a public health environment, you’ll work well as part of a team, with a hands-on and can-do attitude, providing support flexibly across the team on a wide range of tasks.

You will be able to demonstrate excellent communication skills (written and verbal), and attention to detail, communicating complex information to a range of audiences, adapting where required.

You will need to be able to manage your own workload, working flexibly, multi-tasking and balancing different priorities effectively to meet the needs of the directorate. You’ll be comfortable making decisions and using your own initiative and be able to apply focus when analysing data and preparing reports and presentations.

For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.

Here at West Sussex County Council we care about wellbeing, allowing time for celebrating our teams’ efforts, and developing our team to be the best they can be. Alongside this, we also offer the below benefits.

• An excellent local government pension scheme *employer percentage contribution is 20.70%.
• Generous holiday entitlement of 27 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
• A range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
• Maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
• Volunteering opportunities
• Training and development opportunities, including coaching, mentoring and apprenticeships
• A range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our Staff discounts pageif you are a business looking to offer a discount)
• Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders, Wellbeing Hub and Voluntary Health Cash Plans

For a full list this can be found at our Rewards and Benefits page.

The reference number for this role is CAFHE04474.

For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact Alison Thomson (Public Health Strategy Manager) at alison.thomson@westsussex.gov.uk

For issues or queries regarding your application please contact hrrecruitment@westsussex.gov.uk

To apply you will need to complete our application form and upload your CV, in the application you will highlight your skills and experience that you can bring to the role ensuring that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV. Please ensure you have saved the job description attached to the main advert on our website as, once the job has closed, you may not have the opportunity to download again.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to satisfactory references and health check.

West Sussex County Council is an equal opportunities employer committed to promoting an environment that is inclusive and free from all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the diversity of its people. We actively welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and take every possible step to ensure that no individual will be disadvantaged.

For information regarding your eligibility to apply for this role under our Disability or Veteran’s Guaranteed Interview Scheme, this can be found on our application help page.

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