Consultant in Public Health

About the role

Are you passionate about improving people’s health and wellbeing? Do you exhibit great leadership? Are you looking for a new challenge? Do you want to work in one of England’s most charming, developing and stimulating areas? Then we could have the perfect job for you!

North Northamptonshire Council is looking for a full-time Public Health Consultant to join our energetic, friendly and forward-thinking team. The successful candidate will possess broad expertise to provide system leadership and technical knowledge across a range of public health areas. Each of our Public Health Consultants leads a specific portfolio. This role focuses on the substance misuse and mental health portfolio alongside working with the wider team to contribute to the broader public health agenda.

Did you know that our Council has only been in existence since April 2021, and our dedicated Public Health Team since October 2022? We have achieved much in a short space of time but we still have much more to do. Our vision is to make a positive impact on our communities and the environment and we want to keep up our forward momentum to achieve this. So if you feel inspired by our mission, please bring your enthusiasm and energy and join us for the opportunity to do things differently to the benefit of the people who live in North Northamptonshire.

North Northamptonshire Council (NNC) is supportive of flexible and hybrid working; however, the successful postholder will be expected to work a minimum of 40% of their working time from an NNC workplace. We welcome discussions with potential applicants on working arrangements, including part-time working and job shares. We welcome candidates at any stage of their consultant career, including those approaching the end of public health training, newly qualified or experienced Consultants in Public Health.

If you would like an informal discussion, please email lucy.frith@northnorthants.gov.uk, who will arrange a phone call with Jane Bethea, Director of Public Health, Communities and Leisure.

The closing date for this rare opportunity is Sunday 8th February. Face-to-face interviews are currently expected to be held on the 25th and 26th of February.

What will you be doing?

As a member of the Public Health Leadership team and working directly with the Director of Public Health, this post is responsible for:

• Supporting us to take a whole system, asset-based approach to reducing health inequalities and improving health outcomes for all North Northamptonshire residents
• Ensuring that the public health commissioned services improve the health and well-being of residents, particularly those less likely to access care and support.
• Leading work across all Council directorates as well as influencing partnership boards to maximise health improvement opportunities, both currently and for future generations.
• Managing budgets to maximise outcomes, supporting staff to develop and supervising public health registrars and those from other training programmes

About you

The post-holder will deal with complex public health and wellbeing challenges in a multi-organisational environment with widely differing governance and finance system and organizational cultures. It is expected that the post-holder will be able to cope with such circumstances as well as multiple and changing demands, and to meet tight deadlines.

A high level of intellectual rigour, political awareness and negotiation and motivation skills as well as flexibility and sensitivity are required. The post holder will advise the health and wellbeing board and make recommendations regarding services, residents’ care and wider determinants of health and therefore a high level of tact, diplomacy and leadership is required including the ability work within the local political and at the same time maintain the ability to challenge and advocate for effective working and on specific issues in order to achieve public health outcomes.

The achievement of public health outcomes and the successful pursuit of change are the purpose of the job and the metric against which performance will be assessed.

Our Benefits

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!

Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About us

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

Disability Confident Employer

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council

Armed Forces Community

The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)