Recruitment – Job Summary
|Post Title |Public Health Practitioner (Advanced) |
|Job Family |Customer and Community Engagement |
|Line Manager |Public Health Principal |
|Location |G11, Public Health Team, Bucks County Council, County Hall , Walton Street, Aylesbury HP20 1UA |
|Job Purpose |
|To develop and deliver an effective public health prevention work programme for the specified lead areas which currently are substance misuse (alcohol |
|and drugs) and adult mental health/well-being including suicide prevention. This work involves multi-agency working engaging with internal and external |
|stakeholders and customers to deliver against specified prevention priorities and where appropriate instigate behavioural change in these partners. |
|Job Context (key outputs of team / role to provide some specific examples of role profile accountabilities) |
|Surveillance and assessment of the population’s health and well-being |
|To inform public health interventions and identify and analyse national and local information sources related to specified lead areas, contribute to |
|monitoring of targets and support the development of key reports eg Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA), Director of Public Health (DPH) annual |
|report and support the identification of health needs and public health areas for action. |
|Assessing the evidence of effectiveness of health and healthcare interventions, programmes and services |
|Develop high quality, evidence based public health programmes and services and reducing |
|inequalities which are expertly project managed in terms of performance, risk management, |
|monitoring and evaluation. |
|Leadership and collaborative working for health |
|To develop collaborative working and provide leadership and specialist advice concerning public health initiatives and key topic areas to partner |
|organisations and influence their contribution to the public health agenda. eg Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) and District Councils. |
|Health Protection |
|To promote and protect the populations health and wellbeing by contributing to the organisational response to public health emergencies including |
|communicable disease outbreaks and major incidents involving chemical, biological or radiological hazards |
|Policy and strategy development and implementation |
|To be responsible for interpreting and implementing national public health policy at a local level and support the development and evaluation of long |
|term multi-agency plans and strategies, impacting on a range of community agencies and strategic partnerships. Facilitate public involvement and |
|consultation exercises on designated issues promoting a dialogue with community groups and working in partnership with other public involvement leads. To|
|contribute to the public health work programme and produce business cases for investment in prevention programmes |
|Research and development |
|To maintain an up to date specialist knowledge of public health research activity and key findings to inform service developments in all areas, |
|evaluation and audit and work with others on health needs assessment and health impact assessment |
|Health Improvement |
|To provide specialist advice to local communities to support the development of action to tackle longstanding and widening health inequality issues, |
|using community development approaches or social marketing as appropriate eg Healthy Living Centres, Local Area Forums (LAFs) |
|Ethically managing self, people, and resources |
|To ethically manage self and resources and maintain a personal development plan in order to maintain knowledge and skills and work flexibly in order to |
|manage workload to meet the needs of the public health service area. |
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|Contribution to commissioning effective public health services |
|To support the Public Health Principal with planning, development and delivery of services. |
|Knowledge, Skills and Experience |
|Role Profile requirements. |Job specific examples. |Essential |Desirable |
| |(if let blank refer to left hand column) | | |
|Substantial experience in public health related posts (not|Evidence of specialist public heath knowledge/experience and |x | |
|necessarily NHS) |work responsibilities relevant to the role | | |
| | | | |
| |Substantial relevant experience of drugs/alcohol, OR mental | | |
| |health/wellbeing OR suicide prevention | |x |
|Demonstration of the ability to work in partnership in the|Knowledge and experience of community development |x | |
|fields of health inequalities and communities and a track | | | |
|record of working with successful programmes projects or |Knowledge of outcomes based commissioning for public health | | |
|outcomes | | | |
|Demonstration of the ability to deliver effective |Negotiation and influencing skills |x | |
|multi-agency work including experience of responding | | | |
|successfully to the challenges of joint working, |Able to work credibly with colleagues from other commissioned| | |
|representing a public health or organisational view and |or provider organisation and partners in other sectors | | |
|experience of leading or chairing a multi-agency group | | | |
|Experience of applying project management principles |PRINCE 2 project management training or equivalent |x | |
| | | | |
| |Project management skills and experience in delivering a | | |
| |health improvement project | | |
|Ability to analyse data, public health reports and |Ability to produce accurate and concise reports |x | |
|evidence reviews | | | |
| |Ability to analyse public health information from multiple | | |
| |sources | | |
|Good planning and organisational skills |Projects delivered using PRINCE or other relevant principles |x | |
| |and demonstrating ability to adhere to deadlines. | | |
| | | | |
| |Ability to evaluate projects | | |
|Excellent oral and written communication skills to small |Report writing skills |x | |
|and large groups with | | | |
|effective interpersonal and influencing skills and good |Experience of presenting to different audiences using a | | |
|presentation skills |variety of mediums eg general public or professionals | | |
|Good understanding of methods of developing evidence based|Proven research skills demonstrating evidence of the ability |x | |
|practice |to gather and interpret public health information effectively| | |
| | | | |
|Experience of commissioning public health or related | | |x |
|services | | | |
|Sensible negotiator with experience of multi-agency |Knowledge and experience of working with a wide range of |x | |
|working and a practical expectation of what can be |partners across the NHS, Local Authorities and the voluntary | | |
|achieved with the ability to respond effectively to |and community sector | | |
|challenges in partnership working | | | |
|Experience of working with the media in both reactive and |Production of press releases, campaign management and/or | |x |
|proactive situations. |development of messaging for different audiences on public | | |
| |health priorities | | |
|Able to work well against a background of change and | |x | |
|uncertainty and is | | | |
|adaptable to situations, and can work with people of all | | | |
|capabilities and attitudes | | | |
|Demonstration of the ability to develop health strategy |Experience of developing health improvement strategies and/or|x | |
|and policy, including longer term planning |action plans. | | |
| | | | |
| |Contribution to long term planning in a NHS or local | | |
| |authority setting | | |
|Computer literacy skills eg working knowledge of Microsoft|Competent in the use of excel, word and powerpoint | |x |
|Office | | | |
|Qualifications |
|Role Profile requirements. |Job specific examples. |Essential |Desirable |
| |(if left blank refer to left hand column) | | |
|Good First Degree |First degree OR equivalent professional qualification |x | |
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| | | | |
| |Postgraduate degree (masters level) in an area related to | | |
|Postgraduate qualification relevant to Public Health e.g. |public health |x | |
|Masters degree in public health related subject such as |OR | | |
|Masters in Public Health (MPH) and/or MSc in Health |3 years’ experience in a post related post to public health | | |
|Promotion and Public Health or evidence of equivalent |eg health improvement in either a local authority, NHS or | | |
|qualifications |the voluntary and community sector | | |
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| |Demonstrable evidence of continuing professional development | | |
| |and working towards registration as a Public Health | |x |
| |Practitioner on the UK Public Health Register (PHR). | | |
|Other Requirements |
|The job involves travel for business purposes: |
|DBS check is required |
|Access to vehicle, UK driving licence and ability to travel across county regularly |
|May be required to lift and move display boards and resource materials to public venues |
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|Organisation Structure (optional) |
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|Available on request |
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