Consultant in Public Health

Role 1: Permanent post (0.9 WTE = 31.5 hours per week)

Role 2: Fixed-term post (18 months at 0.6 WTE = 21 hours per week)

Ealing is a highly diverse and vibrant borough in the west of London. Home to around 370,000 people, it is the third largest borough by population in London and is an exciting and diverse place to live and work.

Role 1

The postholder will provide Consultant leadership on wider determinants of health (excluding climate change and food landscape), community engagement, and data & Intelligence. You will lead a health in all policies approach with your team and specifically provide public health leadership to Economy and Sustainability and the Housing directorates. You will co-chair the Building Blocks of Health public health working group, provide public health leadership to the Ealing Place-Making Board and Ealing Regional Park Steering Group. You will also co-chair the Data and Intelligence Workstream reporting to the Ealing BBP, developing a community of practice. Over the next year there will be exciting opportunity to promote the Ealing Health Inequalities Dashboard and lead design and delivery of the building blocks of health toolkit to partners and with local communities. This post will line manage two Public Health Principals and a Public Health Programme Support Officer.

Role 2

The postholder will provide Consultant leadership primarily on children’s public health. Taking a systems leadership approach, working with colleagues across council children’s services and schools’ teams, NHS, education and voluntary and community sector, the postholder will work to improve a range of child health outcomes. This includes providing senior public health expertise to Ealing’s Children and Young People’s Board and its subgroups. This includes early years/early help, SEND/inclusion, healthy bodies (e.g. oral health, healthy weight including physical activity, asthma) and healthy minds (children’s mental health). The postholder will also provide public health expertise to the implementation of a number of national children’s policy initiatives and to work with commissioners to strengthen the 0-19 Healthy Child Programme service. The post will line manage two Public Health Principals.

Your collegiate style and high-quality advice will be respected by internal and external partners, as will your ability to work closely across a wide range of council departments, across the local borough-based partnership, with voluntary, community and faith sectors, and with residents.

The team has a strong learning ethos and provides a very supportive environment and an opportunity to support wider team development. Ealing Council is a London School of Public Health training location, and you will be expected to develop yourself as a project supervisor and provide supervision of trainees as agreed with the Educational Supervisor.

There has never been a better time to join the team at Ealing.

• The Council Plan has a strong focus on tackling inequalities, supporting healthy lives and engaging with our communities
• The Health & Wellbeing Strategy 2023-28 has a clear focus on reducing inequalities and improving the building blocks of health
• Ealing Council has established a Health Determinants Research Collaboration, working in partnership with our communities and academic partners as part of a five-year programme funded by NIHR
• There are strong relationships across the Council, especially following extensive joint work throughout the COVID-19 pandemic
• There are exciting opportunities within the Borough-Based Partnership, with very positive relationships and structures for joint working.

By joining Ealing, you will be part of a respected, innovative and diverse London borough with a strong reputation for its commitment to health and wellbeing. Public Health sits at the forefront of our early intervention and prevention work and so we are looking for Consultants who enjoy building strong relationships with partners and embrace the opportunities of working within a Council setting.

Please refer to the section on ‘Essential Qualifications and Experience’ in the Role Profile and check on your eligibility before applying.

When completing your supporting statement, please number the criteria that you are referring to from the person specification.

You must have the right to work in the UK. Evidence for the right to work in the UK will be requested at the interview stage.

It is an exciting time to join us, here at Ealing Council. If you would like to make a positive difference to our residents and borough, then we’re looking forward to hearing from you.

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Ealing Council is committed to creating good jobs and delivering on its connected communities’ agenda. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive.

We therefore welcome applications from all residents of the borough, we particularly welcome applications from candidates who are entering the employment market in the early stages of their career and mid-career professionals, who are currently underrepresented in Ealing’s workforce.

Please note all applications will be determined on merit.

This role is subject to Ealing Council’s enhanced vetting process.

The location for these roles is Perceval House in central Ealing. Currently, the majority of staff are hybrid working, with office working strongly encouraged for at least 2 days a week (this may change depending on the needs of the department).

Flexible working is considered for all roles in the Public Health team.

For a discussion in confidence, please contact Anna Bryden, Director of Public Health brydena@ealing.gov.uk.

Please use “Consultant role 1 (permanent)” or “Consultant role 2 (fixed-term)” in your supporting statement heading.

Interview dates:

Role 1 (permanent 0.9WTE): 5 November 2025

Role 2 (fixed-term 0.6WTE): 6 November 2025

Role profile