Senior Public Health Officer

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
 

• Job Title:                           Senior Public Health Officer
• Job Location:                    Shire Hall, Block 4, 2nd Floor 
• Salary:                              £40,476 - £45,718 per annum 
• Hours per Week:              37.00 
• Contract Type:                  1 Permanent and 1 Fixed-term position - maternity cover for up to 1 year          
• Closing Date:                    21/07/2025 
• Job Requisition Number:   11843 
• These posts are not open to job share

Are you passionate about public health, supporting communities and making a difference?

Do you want to work in a team that are dedicated to ensuring Gloucestershire is a county where everyone can thrive?

About the Team & Role:

Gloucestershire County Council are seeking to recruit to one permanent vacancy and one 12-month fixed-term vacancy for maternity cover.

You would be joining the Public Health and Communities Hub. We are a team who are committed to making a difference to the health and wellbeing of residents, and places and communities, to enable people to live healthy lives and reduce inequalities.

As a Senior Public Health Officer, you will work under the direction of Public Health Managers to lead and support a range of projects and programmes aimed at improving health outcomes. Working flexibly across the commissioning cycle, you will take a lead on commissioning activity, and work collaboratively with internal and external partners, to build on community strengths, and on evidence of what matters to local people and what works.

You will join a supportive team with a commitment to professional development to enable you to make your own contribution to improving and protecting the health and wellbeing of residents of Gloucestershire.

Please note: The permanent post is being advertised in anticipation of a vacancy.  Following interviews, any offer of employment will be conditional, and a formal offer may not be confirmed until October 2025.

About You:

Our ideal candidate will have experience of working in a commissioning environment, as a commissioner or provider, and experience of working on the determinants of health, for example, housing, environmental health, health and social care and/or public health.

They will have proven project management skills, self-initiative and the ability to work flexibly and build constructive relationships with people at all levels.

Please read the job profile which provides further information on the experience and attributes sought of our ideal candidate.

The Public Health and Communities Hub support the Council’s Agile working policy and expect team members to work an average of two days per their working week in the office, which is based in central Gloucester, and to attend ‘in person’ meetings as and when required. New starters will be required to come into the office more often in their first 3 weeks for induction.

About us:

In return for your hard work, you will receive:

• Flexible and agile working opportunities.
• combination of home working and office working at Shire Hall, Gloucester
• core working hours of Monday to Friday 09:30-16:00
• Supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
• Annual Leave entitlement of 25.5 days excluding Bank Holidays
• (Public Health and Communities Hub do not work Bank Holidays)
• Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network, Black Workers Network, Young Employees Network
• Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&C's apply)

How to Apply:

If you feel you have the skills, desire and experience required to make a positive difference then please submit your application and personal statement today by clicking the “Apply Now” button.

Your application must include a CV, and a personal statement detailing how you meet the criteria in the job profile. Please limit your personal statement to a maximum of 1,200 words.

Please also specify in your statement whether you are applying for the permanent or fixed-term post - or if you are interested both.

To have an informal discussion about the role, please contact amy.price2@gloucestershire.gov.uk to arrange a suitable time to talk.  

Interviews are provisionally planned for week commencing 4th August 2025.

Additional Information

To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:-

Senior Public Health Officer - Job Profile

The council is not currently able to offer sponsorship in this role. Candidates will need to have right to work that enables them to commit to at least 6 months employment. Right to work is not transferable from a sponsored role held with another employer. 

Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities.  Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.

It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.

Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.