Consultant of Public Health
| Posting date: | 22 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £91,073.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £91073.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 September 2025 |
| Location: | Swindon, SN1 2JG |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | F0065-25-0001 |
Summary
Strategic objectives for this senior post will be negotiated according to organisational requirements, key priorities and expertise within the directorate and will be outlined in the annual job plan. The lead areas will be agreed by the DPH in negotiation with the postholder but may include: a. Ensuring development and maintenance of systems and processes to enable the authority to work with partners to respond to major incidents including health protection threats. He or she, on behalf of the authority and the DPH, will lead on those aspects that the Secretary of State delegates to the authority. She/he will ensure that partner organisations (UKHSA, OHID, the ICS, and NHS England) have appropriate mechanisms to enable surge capacity to be delivered as and when required. b. On behalf of the authority to take responsibility for ensuring delivery of the public health mandated services such that the full range of benefits are delivered to residents of the authority. These services include sexual health services, NHS Health Checks, specialist public health support to the NHS. This will include taking responsibility for the relevant outcome indicators within Public Health, NHS (and Social Care) Outcome Frameworks and working across organisational boundaries. c. To lead work across all Council directorates as well as influencing partnership boards (dealing with health determinants) to maximise health improvement opportunities and the reduction of inequalities in health outcomes amongst residents. This will include using Outcome Frameworks as well as exploring other relevant routinely collected data systems for suitable indicators. d. To lead on improving health and social outcomes for a particular client group; early years, children, working adults, older adults, learning disabilities, mental health etc. The work will include working across the entire Council, NHS bodies (the Council has a statutory duty to provide public health advice to local NHS commissioners and the Councils Health and Wellbeing Board has a coordinating role for the whole of the health and care system) and other partner agencies. It will also involve influencing private sector, voluntary sector and community sector organisations that can impact on health and influencing the attitudes and behaviour both of professionals and of the population generally. In delivering the strategic objectives, the postholder will be expected to demonstrate expertise in the full range of relevant competencies as set out by the Faculty of Public Health. This includes evaluation techniques, policy analysis and translation and ability to communicate effectively with a range of stakeholders including politicians. In addition to any direct responsibility for managing staff or budgets, he/she will be responsible for change and improvement in the agreed areas of work and for supporting the delivery of the statutory duty of the Council to take the steps it considers necessary to improve the health of its communities.