Public Health Practitioner - 37 Hours

Application Deadline: 4 June 2025

Department: Public Health

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Torbay Council

Reporting To: Team Leader

Compensation: £37,938 - £40,476 / year

Description

Job Description & Person Specification >

We have an exciting opening for a new public health practitioner. This role initially covers public mental health including suicide prevention and all age mental health and wellbeing. There will also be opportunities to support work on the links between housing, employment and health.

As a public health team, we work closely with other teams across the Council, as well as the NHS, Community and Voluntary sectors, business, education, and partners right across the community.

The successful candidate will join a supportive and welcoming team, wanting to make a real and positive difference to local people’s lives.

We are looking for someone with the skills and experience set out in the attached person specification, including:

Experience of working in partnership across a range of organisations.
Experience in the development and delivery of health improvement programmes.
Great communication skills, written and oral.
Experience of problem solving, creativity, and influencing stakeholders.
Relevant qualifications as set out in the specification.
Understanding of the public health agenda, epidemiological concepts, and the principles of evidence based practice and evaluation.
A passion for making a difference for and with communities.

When filling out your application, please make reference to the person specification and give examples of how you meet all of the essential criteria. This will be used in shortlisting candidates for interview.

If you are the successful candidate, you will be joining a highly effective, friendly and capable team.
We offer hybrid home/office based working options along with other local government benefits.
If you are interested, then please get your application in by the closing date of 5pm 4th June 2025.

If you are viewing this advert on a job board, you can access the full job description by placing the below URL into your browser:
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/council/jobs/job-descriptions/public-health-practitioner/

For an informal chat please contact Julia Chisnell on 07584 175711 or julia.chisnell@torbay.gov.uk.

Interviews are expected to be conducted during the week commencing 23rd June 2025.

Our adverts do sometimes close early - even where there's a published deadline - so if you're keen, please apply as soon as possible.

Skills

Essential:

Able to work with a range of external partners to develop and harness relationships to improve public health outcomes.
Effective presentation skills including the ability to present complex issues with clarity to meet the needs of the target audience.
Ability to communicate effectively with a range of different people using different methods.
Able to work across organisational and professional boundaries to achieve results.
Application of evidence-based public health.

As this post meets the requirements of the Immigration Act 2016 (part 7), the ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post.

Knowledge

Essential:

Knowledge of the public health agenda and the wider determinants of health.
Understanding of the health needs of the population and how to ensure programmes are evidenced based to best meet local need.
Awareness of the commissioning cycle.
Understanding of the complexities of working with a wide range of commissioners and service providers.
Knowledge of the main terms and concepts used in epidemiology.

Experience & Qualifications

Essential:

Proven experience in the development and delivery of health improvement and/or health protection initiatives.
Working in partnerships across a range of seniority levels.
Evaluation of public health initiatives and programmes.
Partnership working and working with a wide range of agencies, organisations, third sector groups, private.
Experience in preparing clear and concise reports and presentations.

Skills

Knowledge

Experience & Qualifications

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