Public Health Officer

About the Team & Role

Are you passionate about public health, supporting communities and making a difference? Do you want to work in a team that is dedicated to ensuring Gloucestershire is a county where everyone can thrive? You would be joining the Public Health and Communities Hub. We are a team who are committed to making a difference to the health and wellbeing of residents, and places and communities, to enable people to live healthy lives and reduce inequalities.

As a Public Health Officer, you will work flexibly under the direction of senior colleagues to develop and support a range of projects and programmes aimed at improving health outcomes. Working collaboratively with internal and external partners and engaging with communities. The Public Health and Communities Hub support the Council's Agile working policy and expect team members to work an average of two days per their working week in the office, which is based in central 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. The council is not currently able to offer sponsorship in this role. Candidates will need to have right to work that enables them to commit to at least 6 months employment. Right to work is not transferable from a sponsored role held with another employer.

If you are an Internal applicant and consider yourself to have a disability.

• As per the Equality Act (2010), please declare this in an email to recrui, as this is NOT currently covered in the application due to a technical error.
• By providing this information, you can choose to be considered for a guaranteed interview under our Disability Confident pledge if you meet all essential criteria. It also enables the recruiting manager to arrange any reasonable adjustments you may need during the process.
• A disability is defined as a physical or mental impairment, which has a substantial and long-term (more than 12 months) adverse effect on a person's ability to carry out normal day‑to‑day activities.
  Our ideal candidate will have experience of working in a commissioning environment, as a commissioner or provider, and experience of working on the determinants of health, for example, housing, environmental health, health and social care and/or public health.

• Flexible and agile working opportunities.
• 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.