Public Health Officer - SO2

What will you be doing?

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Public Health team working across the Healthy Place and Social Determinants of Health portfolio. 

Our work focuses on improving population health and reducing health inequalities through prevention, partnership working, and evidence-informed approaches. 

As a Public Health Officer, you will support the development and delivery of a range of programmes that aim to create healthier environments and address the wider determinants of health. This includes work on health inequalities, healthy place approaches, and equity-focused research and evaluation. 

You will play an important role in ensuring programmes are well coordinated, effectively managed, and deliver meaningful impact for our communities. You will work closely with colleagues across public health, the wider council, NHS partners, and the voluntary and community sector to support delivery of shared priorities.

In this role, you will provide project and programme support across a range of public health priorities. Your day-to-day work will include:

• Supporting the planning, coordination, and delivery of public health projects and programmes
• Monitoring progress against plans, milestones, and outcomes, and producing reports and updates for senior colleagues
• Organising and supporting meetings, including preparing papers, taking minutes, and following up on actions
• Maintaining project documentation such as plans, risk and issue logs, and reporting templates
• Supporting effective communication and collaboration with internal teams and external partners
• Assisting with data collection, analysis, and presentation to inform decision-making and track impact
• Contributing to research, evaluation, and evidence-gathering activity to support service improvement
• Supporting budget monitoring and administrative processes related to programme delivery

About you

We are looking for a motivated and organised individual with strong project coordination skills and an interest in improving Public Health outcomes.

You will bring:

• A degree or equivalent experience
• An understanding of public health principles and the wider determinants of health
• Awareness of the policy and organisational context for public health delivery (including the role of local government, the NHS, and partners)
• Experience supporting or coordinating projects, with the ability to manage competing priorities and work across multiple workstreams
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to work both independently and as part of a team
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with a range of stakeholders
• The ability to work accurately with data, reports, and project information

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off.   We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered.  We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion. 

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers