Public Health Project Officer - Smoke Free Generation

Role Responsibility

Kent Public Health – Smoke Free Generation

Kent Public Health is seeking to expand to deliver an extended tobacco control agenda under the government’s new smokefree plan, Stopping the Start. There are new and exciting opportunities available to support our excellent tobacco control and commissioning teams and take our Stopping the Start delivery plan forward.  We are looking for motivated and enthusiastic team members, ideally with public health backgrounds and project management skills and knowledge of the tobacco control agenda.  This is an exciting initiative that will run for three years with a view to extend for up to two additional years.  If you meet the requirements of the following job description and are up for the challenge, we welcome your application.

Public Health Project Officer - Smoke Free 

This new role offers you an opportunity to support the delivery of new and exciting tobacco control projects within Kent’s Public Health team to help ensure that the local authority's ambitions are delivered. We will be developing new programmes to deliver the government’s smokefree agenda, so project planning skills and attention to detail are essential.

As part of the Public Health team, your role will be to develop, monitor, review, and support projects in a range of services across different partnerships.

Public Health promotes the prevention of poor health and seeks to address health inequalities and inequities locally. 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.

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. 

The post will initially be appointed on a three-year fixed term contract with the aim to review and extend for up to two additional years (funding dependent).

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.

Closing date: 8^th May 2024

Shortlisting: 10^th May 2024

Interview date 22^nd May 2024

Contact Details

For further information and an informal discussion, please contact:

Rutuja.Kulkarni-Johnston@kent.gov.uk (Consultant in Public Health)

Deborah.Smith@kent.gov.uk (Public Health Specialist) 

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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.