Public Health District and Borough Partnership Officer

Role Responsibility

This exciting new role offers you an opportunity to work with three district councils in Kent to support their work on improving public health and reducing health inequalities, through action on the wider determinants of health.  There are four positions overall and they are part of an increasingly integrated pattern of working on public health between Kent County Council and the county’s twelve district councils.

You will be assigned to one of these four clusters; (1) Sevenoaks District Council, Tonbridge & Malling Borough Council, Tunbridge Wells Borough Council, (2) Dartford Borough Council, Gravesham Borough Council, Swale Borough Council, (3) Canterbury City Council, Thanet District Council, Dover District Council and (4) Ashford Borough Council, Folkestone & Hythe District Council, Maidstone Borough Council.

You will be working directly with districts council officers to support their health and wellbeing initiatives and will receive professional and strategic input from the central public health team at Kent County Council. You should expect to work on average one day per week physically located at each district council’s offices (i.e. three days per week in total) with the remaining two days being flexible working with a likely one day per month working from KCC offices in Maidstone.

Partnership working is key to success in this role, and you will be heavily involved with the district Health Alliances that exist in most of these areas.  The Health Alliances bring together a full range of local partners including the voluntary sector, primary care, adult social care and more for collaborative local action on health inequalities and the wider determinants of health.

Public health promotes the prevention of poor health and seeks to address health inequalities and inequities. The wider public health team commission public health services including a health visiting service, undertake research, work in health protection, and carry out analysis of health-related data.

Within your assigned districts/boroughs you will coordinate projects, provide support, present reports for different audiences, and monitor progress against outcomes. 

You will need to have the ability to prioritise competing demands and objectives, coupled with diplomacy and a working knowledge of all stages of the project cycle.

You will have excellent written and verbal communication skills to work efficiently and effectively across organisational boundaries and with internal partners. 

As an employee of Kent County Council, you will receive training suitable to the role and to support your development, along with excellent benefits, including 29 days annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme, and flexible working.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements.

This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Contact Details

For further information regarding this role, please contact: 

Janette Brayshaw   
janette.brayshaw@kent.gov.uk

About the Company

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KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county’s working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.