Public Health Consultant

Job introduction

Are you looking for a new and exciting challenge as Public Health Consultant?

Do you have expert public health leadership and can provide advice to various partners?

Would you like to deliver a variety of projects and drive health and care initiatives within the city?

We are looking for a Public Health Consultant to join our dynamic and high performing team.

Brighton & Hove is an exciting and vibrant place to work and we have a reputation for delivering innovative approaches and helping to make health everyone’s business.

Salary range: £98,024 - £110,000

Application closing date: 28 September 2025

Interview date: October 2025 (TBC)

To arrange an informal discussion about this opportunity with Caroline Vass, Director of Public Health for Brighton and Hove City Council, please contact: caroline.vass@brighton-hove.gov.uk

About the Role

Brighton & Hove is an established Unitary Authority and is a major economic, social, and cultural force in the southeast region, with a vibrant, dynamic and diverse community which makes the city of Brighton & Hove truly unique.

This role requires you to support and deliver health and care objectivities within the city.

You will be

• A motivated team player who is highly effective at communicating, influencing and collaborating to make changes.
• flexible however your portfolio will include working as the public health consultant lead for improving local sexual health outcomes, drugs and alcohol use outcomes, and workforce development.
• providing expert public health leadership and advice to the Integrated Care Board to drive the development of population health management within the Sussex health and care system.

You must be Faculty of Public Health registered specialist (included on the UKPHR or GMC registers with a license to practice). Any public health speciality registrar applicants who are currently on the UK public health training programme and not yet on either the GMC, GDC or UKPHR specialist register must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they are within 6 months of gaining entry to a register at the date of interview. Applicants going through the portfolio registration routes (GMC or UKPHR) are not eligible to be shortlisted for interview until they are included on the register.

About the role

Additional Information

We can offer you a comprehensive benefits package including

• flexible working arrangements that support work-life balance
• annual leave plus bank holidays
• maternity/paternity leave/shared parental leave
• support individually and part of a team
• training and development opportunities
• health & wellbeing support
• a range of employee discount benefits
• cycle to work scheme
• a local government pension
• access to staff networks/forums
• trade union membership

Please read our Apply for a job at the council pages carefully. They give you all the guidance you need to complete your application as well as information on what will happen after you’ve submitted your application and at interview.

As part of your application, you will need to upload your Application Form and a supporting statement. Your supporting statement is the most important part of your application as it will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our guidance here (Application Form guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) and (Supporting statement guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.

Additional information

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us

Company information

Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).

Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.