At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead impactful public health projects and collaborate with diverse stakeholders to improve community health.
- Company: Join Thurrock Council's dynamic Public Health Team with a focus on healthcare improvement.
- Benefits: Flexible working options, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Engaging role with excellent career development opportunities in a supportive environment.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in public health and tackle health inequalities in your community.
- Qualifications: Strong public health knowledge, analytical skills, and leadership experience required.
The predicted salary is between 40500 - 49500 £ per year.
Job Category: Project Management
Flexible and hybrid working available, with a minimum of 2 days per week office working.
We are seeking an exceptional and engaging Public Health Specialist Practitioner to join the Public Health Team at Thurrock Council on a maternity cover basis within the Healthcare Public Health sub-team.
This is an exciting opportunity to work collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders to deliver meaningful public health impact, improving health outcomes and reducing health inequalities across the local population.
The postholder will play a key role in delivering healthcare public health priorities identified within the Council's Corporate Plan, Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy and Public Health Service Delivery Plan.
The Healthcare Public Health workstream strengthens prevention-focused, system-wide approaches that improve health outcomes and reduce inequalities, working closely with NHS partners, local government colleagues and wider stakeholders to support evidence-based commissioning, service improvement and population health initiatives.
The postholder will
- Work closely with NHS Primary Care, Greater Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB) partners and Integrated Neighbourhood Teams to improve health outcomes and reduce health inequalities.
- Collaborate with Health Intelligence colleagues to analyse and respond to quality improvement measures, outcomes, and insights from the JSNA, Health Needs Assessments, Health Equity Audits and the Director of Public Health Report.
- Lead on key healthcare public health projects, including health equity initiatives and the commissioning, monitoring and continuous improvement of the NHS Health Checks programme.
- Provide specialist public health advice to inform commissioning, service development and system-wide prevention priorities.
- Support the development and delivery of evidence-based pathways and targeted interventions aligned with local population health needs.
- Contribute to reporting, governance and assurance processes through high-quality briefings, summaries and data-driven insights.
- Build and maintain strong partnerships across the Council, NHS and wider stakeholders to support collaborative, prevention-focused approaches.
This role requires strong public health knowledge, analytical skills, and the ability to influence and work collaboratively across organisational boundaries to improve population health outcomes and reduce health inequalities for Thurrock residents.
Skills and abilities – essential
- Strategic thinker with proven leadership skills.
- Self-starter with the ability to organise and prioritise conflicting workloads and meet
- strict deadlines whilst working across the service, other council departments and partner
- organisations.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to adapt the
- presentation to different audiences.
- Effective interpersonal, motivational and influencing skills.
- Substantially numerate with the ability to analyse and interpret complex public health
- qualitative and quantitative data.
- Proven ability to undertake health needs assessments including critical appraisal of
- evidence.
- Ability to manage delegated budgets, forecast risk and effectively elevate this to the
- Public Health Senior Leadership Team.
- Highly developed skills in partnership working across all sectors to improve public
- health outcomes, reduce health inequalities and improve services.
- Proven ability to design, develop, interpret and implement policies and strategy.
- Proven ability to lead and manage teams and foster good working relationships across
- the Public Health department and with colleagues in other teams across the council.
- Highly developed influencing and collaborative working skills in complex environments
- and across sectors to achieve public health outcomes.
- Ability to multi-task in a fluid and changing environment with competing priorities.
- Ability to prioritise, plan and manage own workload and that of a team.
- Clear understanding of project planning and management including the monitoring
- and evaluation of projects.
- Multimedia communication and presentation skills
- Information knowledge management skills.
- Experience of commissioning public health services and performance management of
- Ability to develop a culture of continuous quality improvement where excellence is the
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