Senior Project Officer (Public Health & Darzi Fellowship Challenge)

Role Responsibility

Kent County Council’s Public Health team is looking for a Senior Project Officer to lead the development of the Prevention Concordat for Better Mental Health in Kent and Medway. The position also includes automatic enrolment to the Darzi Fellowship Challenge programme based at the London South Bank University.   

The Senior Project Officer will simultaneously progress a Kent and Medway STP (ICS) bid to become a signatory of the national Prevention Concordat for Better Mental Health, while managing an innovative public engagement programme designed to listen to seldom heard communities across Kent, and empower all communities to take charge of their own mental health. 

Working closely with a new preventative mental health multi-agency network - and its Chair - you will lead an action plan that will result in co-produced activities and projects reflecting in-depth engagement with the public.  

You will also develop key relationships across the public mental health sector and use them to encourage local system leaders to listen to each other, and the public, to take better decisions about preventative mental health services.  

The work on the Concordat will form the practical challenge feature of the Darzi Fellowship Challenge, which leads to a PGCert Leadership in Health over the course of the 2021/22 academic year.  

This post will be a mix of homeworking and travel to Maidstone, and occasional travel within the Kent & Medway geographical area will be required. Mandatory study days for the PGCert will require travel into London.  

The post is a fixed term contract until 01 September 2022. 

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.

Contact Details

For further information please contact Heather Bowker, Heather.Bowker@kent.gov.uk

About the Company

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 and faiths, 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.