Job Type: | permanent | Duration: | |
Category: | Medical or Health | Recruiter Reference: | Ref/52846/4262 |
URL for Applications: | Apply Here | Salary: | £46,878 - £50,071 |
This permanent post is a perfect opportunity to someone who wants to make a difference to healthy lifestyles and health inequalities in West Northamptonshire.
We are looking for someone to join our team working with the Public Health Specialist and Principal in driving forward the health improvement and communities agenda across West Northamptonshire. This role is integral to the prevention of the ill health agenda and tackling health inequalities.
Our benefitsWe offer a wide range of benefits to our employees, these include:
You will be working with a dedicated, motivated and ambitious Public Health and wider council team, with a focus on the Health Improvements and Communities and the wider prevention agenda.
You will be responsible for and lead project development and management of key areas of work around healthy weight for adults, getting people more active, creating a smoke free environment and ensuring community awareness and access to all key healthy lifestyle services. You will embed this work in the wider inequalities strategy.
About youWe are looking for someone with experience of developing and implementing health improvement programmes for adults and communities regarding healthy lifestyle and inequalities issues. Ideally you will have experience of working across the areas of healthy weight, physical activity, preventing smoking and of working across communities to engage people in the health agenda and raise awareness of key issues and services. You will have excellent communication skills and an ability to work with a wider range of partners and communities.
West Northamptonshire Council is creating an environment for all residents to ‘Live Your Best Life’ across key ambition areas through the provision of high quality services, projects and developing cross system partnerships and actions. We offer an excellent working environment, valuing supervision, training and opportunities for professional development.
For further information please contact Deborah Mbofana (Public Health Principal) on 07824 866831 or email deborah.mbofana@westnorthants.gov.uk
About us
At West Northants Council, it’s about our people. People who thrive with ambition, bubble with new ideas, demand better ways of working, caring about every detail, and who never shy away from a challenge. Our culture is a gateway for new experiences. A place to forge new opportunities. To empower you in your career and unite you with like-minded people.
Our vision is ‘to make West Northants a great place to live, work, visit and thrive’. We truly stand by this and work hard every day to make this a reality. Our corporate values, THRIVE, stand for: Trust, High Performance, Respect, Innovate and Empower, they underpin everything we do and how we deliver services.
Hear more from our Chief Executive, Anna Earnshaw, about what it's like to work at West Northants Council https://youtu.be/lV0EfeUF4aU
We are committed to ensuring diversity, equality, equity, and inclusion is woven into the fabric of WNC and everything we do, to enable all colleagues to develop and maximize their full potential. We are a disability confident employer, a member of the Armed Forces Covenant, and a Care Leaver Covenant partner
The following film was created by us to communicate our intentions - watch WNC colleagues explain what DEI means to us.
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