Public Health Specialist

Role Responsibility

We are looking to appoint a Public Health Specialist to join our talented sexual health team for a 12-month period, helping to oversee the effective delivery of a £10m portfolio of sexual health services and working to improve health outcomes and tackle health inequalities for more than 1.6 million people living and working in Kent.

You will need to be a suitably qualified individual with a proven track record in delivering public health projects and programmes to a high standard. The role will be to develop, support, monitor and review a number of pieces of work across public health, with a focus on sexual health, but with opportunity to contribute to district-level working and health protection efforts also.

You will be skilled in the use of data to inform policy and programmes. You will have a public health qualification, be skilled in project management, and have experience of working in a multidisciplinary team.

Kent is a large County with lots of complex public health issues.You will have the ability to prioritise competing demands and objectives, coupled with diplomacy and a working knowledge of all areas of public health.

This role is open for internal and external secondment. 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 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 12 January 2025

Interview date 3 & 4 February 2025

Contact Details

For more information about this post, please email Professor Durka Dougall (durka.dougall@kent.gov.uk), Hannah Brisley (hannah.brisley@kent.gov.uk), or 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.