Public Health Principal

at  South Gloucestershire Council

How you’ll make a difference:
You will make a difference by working strategically and collaboratively across public health services, supporting the strategic lead by providing operational programme oversight and specialist public health knowledge, whilst managing a team of specialist public health practitioners.
The public health and wellbeing division is responsible for key programmes aimed at protecting and improving health through prevention and intervention, focussing delivery to reduce health inequalities.

What you will be doing:

• It will be your responsibility to line manage a team of specialist public health practitioners, to deliver the public health strategies and actions for your programme areas.
• It will be key for you to plan, monitor, evaluate and develop services designed to support the wellbeing of communities and individuals, contributing to the broader public health priorities of South Gloucestershire to improve public health outcomes.
• You will act as a role model for the division by promoting matrix-working and maintaining a focus on population outcome driven decision-making.
• Preparing reports to a range of groups, you will share best practise and develop relationships with stakeholders, providing expertise for prevention, intervention, and service development.
• Facing multiple and changing demands, you will meet tight deadlines and complex public health issues, and make recommendations regarding policies, services, and the wider determinants of health.

What we need from you:

• You must hold a relevant professional qualification, degree or equivalent specialist qualification or equivalent experience in the field of public health, education or social science.
• We require you to have experience in developing and delivering strategies and plans and in delivering effective health intervention programmes in partnership with stakeholders.
• It is essential that you can communicate, motivate and influence a wide range of people and partners both within Health Improvement, Health Care Settings and the Voluntary and Community Sector.
• You will have knowledge and experience of research, development and evaluation techniques including an understanding of complex data and the ability to communicate this effectively at all levels.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

• This is a part-time role, working 26 hours per week. Your salary will be pro-rated to hours worked.
• This role is hybrid, with a mixture of working at our office in Badminton Road, Yate and working from home.

HOW A CAREER AT SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE COUNCIL IS DIFFERENT

• As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities.
• We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.
• We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives, and we offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve that work/life balance.
• We invest in the careers of our people, and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps our people make the greatest long-term difference in their work.

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.

• We’re building and shaping communities which people are proud of.
• We’re working with the most vulnerable in our community to help them achieve what they want in life.
• We’re investing in our schools to ensure every child and young person in South Gloucestershire achieves their full potential.

We’ve achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.
We’re making a difference, be part of it!
To view the full job description, please click this link: Public Health Principal - Job Descriptio

• It will be your responsibility to line manage a team of specialist public health practitioners, to deliver the public health strategies and actions for your programme areas.
• It will be key for you to plan, monitor, evaluate and develop services designed to support the wellbeing of communities and individuals, contributing to the broader public health priorities of South Gloucestershire to improve public health outcomes.
• You will act as a role model for the division by promoting matrix-working and maintaining a focus on population outcome driven decision-making.
• Preparing reports to a range of groups, you will share best practise and develop relationships with stakeholders, providing expertise for prevention, intervention, and service development.
• Facing multiple and changing demands, you will meet tight deadlines and complex public health issues, and make recommendations regarding policies, services, and the wider determinants of health