Public Health Information Officer

Role Responsibility

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join the Public Health Observatory at Kent County Council.

The Public Health Information Officer provides important analytical support to better understand health needs in Kent, address health inequalities, and determine priorities for action. They support senior analysts and collaborate with the public health department across a broad range of work areas. For example, health needs assessments, programme evaluations, dataset management, presentation design, and website maintenance.

The post requires excellent numeracy and good written English skills. The ideal candidate will have experience of analysing complex datasets with an understanding of public health issues. This role is an ideal first step for those interested in pursuing a career in analytics and public health.

We provide a comprehensive training offer and encourage a supportive learning environment to share knowledge between team members. We continually innovate and improve. For example, the team creates reproducible analysis using programming languages such as R, SQL and Power BI for data visualization.

In your application, please take the opportunity to tell us about specific examples of things you have done which demonstrate how your skills and experience match the job description.

The successful applicant will have the option of remote-working but must be willing to work from Kent County Council’s Invicta House office in Maidstone at least 1 day per week. 

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

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 sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Interviews will be held in Maidstone during the week commencing 12^th May. Depending on the number of applications, we may also invite candidates to attend a brief online discussion the week before.

Contact Details

If you have any questions, please contact:

Joshua Stroud (joshua.stroud@kent.gov.uk), Senior Public Health Intelligence Analyst.

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.

KCC is transitioning to a new pay structure from 1st April 2025.  More details can be found here - Pay - Jobs & Careers - Kent County Council 

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