About the role
Our organisation is committed to improving health outcomes and reducing inequalities across our communities. As part of this mission, we are looking for a passionate and skilled Public Health Practitioner to lead on Gambling Harms Prevention.
This role sits within our Public Health team and will provide public health advice to support the strategic development of gambling harms prevention and ensure that programme deliverables are achieved. It contributes directly to the delivery of our organisations Public Health Strategic Plan, the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Health and Wellbeing Strategy as well as Cambridgeshire County Council’s Strategic Objectives. You will work across council departments and with external partners to design, implement and evaluate evidence-based public health programmes that support healthier lifestyles and reduce preventable illness.
What will you be doing?
- Lead the local gambling harms prevention programme, turning national policy into local action.
- Build strong partnerships and promote a whole-system approach across services.
- Use data and lived experience to identify need, reduce inequalities, and target support
- Develop prevention initiatives and workforce training, ensuring equitable access to support.
- Manage funding, performance, and reporting to demonstrate impact and inform decisions.
- Support the council’s commitment to becoming a Net Zero organisation by 2030.
The attached Job Description and Person Specification provide more information.
Applications will be shortlisted against how you meet the personal specification, please consider this when drafting your supporting statement.
Interviews will take place in person only, at our office at New Shire Hall Emery Crescent Enterprise Campus, Alconbury Weald, PE28 4YE
About you
About You
You will have:
- A degree in a relevant health or scientific discipline (Master’s in Public Health or related subject desirable).
- Strong knowledge of public health theory, epidemiology, and behaviour change approaches.
- Experience in developing, delivering, and evaluating public health programmes.
- Excellent communication and partnership-building skills.
- A proactive, analytical, and inclusive approach to problem-solving.
Experience in Prevention and Gambling Harms/Addiction related programmes is highly desirable.
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.
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