Cambridgeshire County Council’s Public Health Team are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic new Senior Public Health Manager to work in our ‘Health in All Policies’ team. The role will play a key part in embedding a Public Health approach across the whole Council to create ‘healthy places'. Working closely with colleagues across many teams, including Planning the Built Environment, Housing, Environmental Health, and Sustainability, as well as Public Health colleagues to maximise health and well-being outcomes for local residents.
For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact
Vicki Peacey
Vicki.peacey@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Our benefitsWe value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
- Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
- An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes
What will you be doing?Reporting to the Health in All Policies Team Manager, you will work to support and influence land use planning across Cambridgeshire, to assess implications for health and improve design. You will also respond to environmental permit applications and provide Public Health input into air quality locally.
Another key part of this role will be to influence wider policy and strategy development to reflect the impact that places can have on health and wellbeing and health inequalities. You will proactively build and maintain relationships internally and with key external partners, identifying opportunities for improving health locally.
As part of this, the role includes some responsibility for developing and procuring or delivering training on ‘healthy places’ for staff from the council and partner organisations.
About youThis is a very varied role, so we’d love to hear from candidates with a range of backgrounds. People with experience in environmental health, planning, wider determinants of health, air quality or public health, are all welcome to apply.
If you can show experience of managing relationships across a wide range of organisations and show an understanding of the challenges faced by local authorities and the NHS, then we want to hear from you.
About usCambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
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https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
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