Public Health Officer (Sexual Health)

Role Responsibility

We are looking to appoint a skilled public health officer to join our talented Kent County Council Public Health Directorate’s Sexual Health team. You will provide essential project and budget management support to ensure the effective delivery of a £16.8m portfolio of sexual health services working to improve health outcomes for more than 1.6 million people living and working in Kent.  

You will need to be a suitably qualified individual with strong skills in project, budget and resource management. The role will be to develop, support, monitor and review activity relating to specific projects within the Public Health Sexual Health team and provide support and advice to officers across the team in order to deliver effective project implementation in line with budgets and timescales. 

You will be skilled in budget and programme management software and have high levels of organisation and communication. Ideally you will have experience working in public health and an understanding about working in a large County Council such as ours.    

Kent is a large County with lots of complex public health issues. You will have the ability to prioritise competing demands and objectives, be reliable and proactive, and be able to work with a diverse range of colleagues to deliver projects to time, budget and high standards.

As an organisation committed to equity, diversity and inclusion, we welcome applicants from candidates from a diverse or under-represented backgrounds, particularly from the local area. This role is not open/suitable for those seeking secondment opportunity.  

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

Closing date: 16/11/2025 

Interview date: w/c 24/11/2025

Contact Details

For more information about this post, please email Professor Durka Dougall (durka.dougall@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 soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.