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Location: Walsall
Pay rate (Assignment rate): Negotiable
Contract Length: 3-Months
Shift Pattern: Working outside of standard office hours may be required. Attendance at evening and other out-of-hour meetings as required although this is not expected to be regular or routine.
Duties:
- Be a member of the Public Health team
- Provide leadership and advocacy for health and wellbeing across Walsall and support the development and implementation on reducing inequalities across Walsall
- Take a lead on many areas of work identified in the Public Health Work Plan, including supporting the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of work
- Deputise for the Senior Public Health Development Manager when required
- Contribute to and support the delivery of the department priorities to improve outcomes as measured by our local outcomes frameworks
- Strong partnership working with a whole range of teams across local government, the NHS, local communities, private and the voluntary sector to take every opportunity and maximise the use of resources to reduce avoidable differences in the experience of health and wellbeing
- Put individuals and local communities at the heart of what they do, with effective engagement with local people to understand their health needs, building on the strengths and using behavioural insight to bring about a community-wide, community-led shared responsibility for sustained behaviour change
- Deliver scaled action on ‘what works’, working with providers across public, private and the voluntary sector through contracts, strategic collaborations and joint ventures
Requirements for the Public Health Development Officer role:
- Work flexibly at all times with due regard to prevailing workloads and priorities
- Be able to understand and work with local communities to bring about sustained behaviour change and work across the Borough to influence improvement by changing the health and wellbeing impacts of the fundamental determinants of wellbeing; social, economic, commercial, environmental and behavioural
- Ability to communicate verbally with customers and provide advice and/or information in accurate spoken English is essential for the post
- Ability to engage, verbally or written, with a wide range of audiences from community members to Directors, Senior Managers/Professionals in varied multi-agency settings
- Demonstrates an ability to undertake desk-based research including gathering, interpreting, analysing and effectively presenting conclusions and recommendations
- Demonstrates an ability to use IT software to word process, email and access the internet
- Demonstrates an ability to deliver training packages
- Demonstrates effective organisational skills and is able to work unsupervised, and to plan and prioritise an agreed workload
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Bachelors degree in a relevant field
- Holds or working towards UKPHR Practitioner registration
- An awareness of, and commitment to, equality of opportunity
- Awareness of, and commitment to, confidentiality and handling data
- Has the ability to work flexibly in order to meet the needs of the service and work on a variety of topics according to the requirements of the Directorate
- Is willing and able to work outside of core office hours in order to meet the needs of the service
- Demonstrates some experience of identifying key stakeholders and developing effective relationships of working in the public sector
- Demonstrates experience of influencing policy and practice and managing change and influencing other professionals and organisations to improve health and services for the public
- Demonstrates experience of managing projects that lead to change
- Demonstrates experience of working with local public/practitioners to deliver projects effectively
- Has a demonstrable level of post-graduate qualification expertise and extensive experience working as a public health practitioner
- Has experience in project management, including budgeting, needs assessment, monitoring and evaluation
This Public Health Development Officer position is advertised by William Copeland. If you're ready to take the next step in your career, click above to apply now.
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