Public Health Specialist

Posting date:	08 August 2025
Salary:	£46,142.00 to £48,226.00 per year
Additional salary information:	£46142.00 - £48226.00 a year
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	21 August 2025
Location:	Trowbridge, BA14 8JN
Company:	NHS Jobs
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	F0041-5388

Summary

Specific duties and responsibilities include: To have the autonomy to determine the needs of the population, assess options for managing the public health needs of the population, commission services, interventions, and programmes as appropriate. To act as contract manager and liaison for the services, interventions, and programmes they contact, evaluating outcomes, performance managing, and dealing with the overall management and delivery of projects within the allocated resources. To provide specialist advice to the strategic development and implementation of health improvement and wider determinants strategies, implementation plans and action plans in line with national and local indicators linked to the Public Health Outcomes Framework. To provide public health specialist advice, guidance and support to colleagues and volunteers to ensure whole team objectives are met To lead on the identification of public health needs using various methodologies e.g. health needs assessment, health equity audits, reviews and evaluations of programmes and / or interventions directed at areas of responsibility. To assess, analyse and interpret national and local data and evidence to develop and evaluate Wiltshire based public health interventions, programmes and / or projects. To promote the health improvement, health protection and inequalities reduction agendas across the council, ICB, and with other partners, seeking to increase the engagement of all council staff and partners in working to improve and protect health e.g. through communicating complex and potentially sensitive or controversial information to diverse groups, persuading and negotiating on a range of issues and topics and working with the media. To represent the public health team and the council at agreed partnership events, partnership Boards, multi-agency working groups, professional groups and other for a; this may involve chairing and / or facilitating multi-agency working groups. To support the work of existing partnerships (and develop new ones where appropriate in response to specific defined needs) and provide specialist public health advice to partners and other key stakeholders. To develop wider public health capacity by communicating and promoting health protection messages through presentations, evidence-based practice, audits and published research and providing specialised advice and knowledge through the development of and participation in training programmes, workshops, conferences and seminars etc. To be a source of specialist knowledge in particular public health topic areas through resource production, project management, training, contributing to websites and disseminating information to partner organisations. To contribute to topic related reports to inform council, partner organisations and government bodies e.g. cabinet, Department of Health and Social Care, UK Health Security Agency, ICB etc and contribute specialist topic information to annual public health reports, strategic documents and other reports as required. To keep up to date with the evidence base of effective practice, in particular relating to specific public health topic areas and public health competencies. This will be gained through literature searches, critical appraisal of literature, conferences, networking, journal clubs, professional body communications etc. To comply with professional body codes of conduct e.g. UK Public Health Register (UKPHR), Faculty of Public Health (FPH), Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH), Health Professions Council etc as appropriate The post holder may have responsibility for the supervision of junior staff, public health trainees and students to support their educational needs including personal development plans, objective setting and monitoring quality and quantity of work as required. To be prepared to work within a matrix management approach i.e. may have notional responsibility for an area but postholder may be requested to work on priorities as determined by the service. The post holder may be asked to deputise on occasions for the Public Health Principal as well as for other team members as required. The post holder will be prepared to support the wider public health team in the event of threats to health protection and emergencies that threaten public health. The post holder maybe expected to be involved in the commissioning and/or delivery of research and evaluate existing public health projects and programmes. The post holder will be able to identify, assess and mitigate against any risks associated with the projects and programmes within their remit. Provide advice and guidance to senior managers on a broad range of issues and propose remedial actions Commissioning / develop training, workshops and presentations and / or roadshows to both internal and external stakeholders