Public Health Advanced Practitioner (12-month maternity cover)

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Please note, we do not accept CVs submitted without a fully completed online application form.

Join Bracknell Forest Council’s Public Health Team as a Public Health Advanced Practitioner, helping to shape healthier places and improve outcomes for our residents. In this varied fixed-term maternity cover role (up to 12 months), you will support important public health workstreams, with a focus on the winder factors that influence health and wellbeing. You will be part of a small, ambitious and supportive team where your contribution will make a real difference to local communities. Any successful internal candidate will be offered the position as a secondment and, in line with Section 8.1 of the Secondment Policy, must consult with their manager before applying. Search ‘secondment policy’ on the intranet for more information. At Bracknell Forest, we pride ourselves on being a council which is stable and well-managed where our employees can thrive in a supportive environment. We understand the importance of a healthy work-life balance and offer a variety of flexible working practices, including options for remote working and arrangements that allow you to work from home, dependent on the needs of the service. This role includes an expectation to work from our Time Square office for one day per week, alongside flexible working arrangements.

About you...

As a Public Health Advanced Practitioner, you will be an ambitious, innovative and self-motivated professional, joining our Public Health Team to support a range of public health workstreams. We are looking for someone who is keen to further develop their specialist public health knowledge and experience, particularly in relation to the wider social, economic and commercial factors that shape health outcomes. We would welcome applications from practitioners with experience of delivering a Health in All Policies approach or working with key partners to develop a Healthy Places Framework, including work with licensing and planning.

About the team…

We are a small but ambitious Public Health Team, supported not only by colleagues across our organisation but also by the wider East Berkshire Public Health system. We are agile, open to change and committed to making a positive difference for our residents. Team members are encouraged and supported to deliver meaningful work, with a clear sense of the impact they are having in our local communities.

Key responsibilities…

Some of the responsibilities of a Public Health Advanced Practitioner role will be to:

• Lead on defined programmes and projects which will focus on the wider and commercial determinants of health and leading on developing a healthy places framework.
• Support the Public Health Consultants and Principals in the designing, implementing, commissioning and auditing of public health programmes and projects as identified in the business plans/JSNAs/Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy.
• Develop skills in identifying health needs, using appropriate analytical techniques and working with multiple qualitative and quantitative data sources.
• Support senior colleagues in working with, and through, policies, strategies and action plans to improve health outcomes and reduce inequalities across all three domains of Public Health: health protection, health improvement and health care public health, and the wider determinants of health.
• Contribute to effective commissioning and service redesign (needs assessment, prioritising, planning, development, implementation and evaluation of services, programmes and interventions) for better health outcomes across sectors and organisations, with a particular emphasis on reducing inequalities.

Our benefits...

• 28 days annual leave increasing to 33 days after 3 years’ continuous service, with the opportunity to buy up to 10 and sell up to 5 days.
• Hybrid working opportunities to support your wellbeing and work-life balance.
• Paid employee volunteering scheme.
• Local government pension scheme, with life insurance cover.
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme (subject to eligibility).
• Reimbursement of one annual professional subscription/registration.
• Recognition of continuous service attained within the NHS and UKHSA when calculating some benefits. (Terms and Conditions apply)
• Career development through internal and external training opportunities.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and fostering leave.
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support your health and wellbeing
• Inclusive and social working environment with a variety of staff networks and a sports and social club.

Find out more about all our benefits or see the candidate pack.

Our values

At Bracknell Forest Council our values define who we are and what is important to us. Our core values are inclusive, ambitious, and always learning. These values influence the way we work with each other and the way we serve our residents and engage with our communities. We make our values real by demonstrating them in how we behave every day. If you are excited about joining a diverse team that celebrates learning and strives for excellence, we would love to hear from you.

Reasonable adjustments

We are committed to ensuring an inclusive recruitment process for all applicants. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application or interview, please let us know by contacting recruitment@bracknell-forest.gov.uk. We will work with you to support you throughout the process. Find out more about reasonable adjustments.

Disability confident and inclusive recruitment

Bracknell Forest Council is proud to be an inclusive employer. This means that if you have made us aware on the application form that you have a disability, are an armed forces veteran or you are a care leaver, you will be guaranteed an interview if you meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification.

Interview date

Interviews will be held on 23rd July.

Interviews will be conducted in person, providing candidates with the chance to personally meet the team and experience our work environment.

We will be reviewing applications regularly and reserve the right to close the advert early if suitable candidates are identified. To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible.

Please note AI is prohibited during the interview, any candidate using AI will be withdrawn from consideration.

Want to ask us a question?

For an informal discussion or to ask any questions about this role, please contact:

Louise Duffy, Public Health Principal,Louise.duffy@bracknell-forest.gov.uk

or Katherine Davies, Advanced Public Health Practitioner,Katherine.davies@bracknell-forest.gov.uk

Bracknell Forest Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect everyone employed with us to share this commitment. All successful candidates for this role will be subject to a DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service) check as part of our pre-employment checks process.

We can only accept applications from candidates currently residing in the UK.

Candidates currently residing in the UK who require sponsorship to work are encouraged to assess their eligibility for a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) based on the relevant criteria. Please be aware that sponsorship availability varies and is subject to eligibility requirements and budget limitations. As a result, we cannot guarantee sponsorship for all roles and will evaluate sponsorship requests on a case-by-case basis.

No agencies please