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location_on Location Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Hove, BN3 3BQ

Salary Up to £174k plus relocation package of up to £10k

Salary £28,153 to £28,608 pro rata.Actual Pay £7,887.35 rising to £8,017.10

Basis Flexi Hours

Head of Public Health Commissioning

Job profile for Head of Public Health Commissioning

Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Hove, BN3 3BQ 22/11/2026

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

Job details

Salary £71,224 - £77,997

Contractual hours 37

Package We are pleased to offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your wellbeing. You can read about them on our Why work for us pages.

Job category/type Administration

Date posted 05/11/2026

Job reference REQ0001741

Attachments 4958.Jul26.Head of Public Health Commissioning.JDPS final.docx

Preview of Shortlisting Questions Head of Public Health Commissioning.docx

Job description

About the Role

Brighton and Hove City Council is seeking to appoint a visionary and experienced Head of Public Health commissioning. Reporting directly to the Director of Public Health, you will play a pivotal role in driving population health transformation via commissioned services, and tackling health inequalities for those who live, work, and visit our borough.

The Public Health team is a lead agency for local health improvement, working closely with partners like the University Sussex Hospitals, Sussex Community Foundation Trust and Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust as well as the Health and Wellbeing Board to deliver evidence-based strategies that address the broad determinants of health.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership: commissioning and transformation of public health services
• Collaborative Working: Building strong relationships with senior clinicians, Senior council colleagues, and elected members to enable commissioned services to maximise the benefits of a wider structure of wider health inequalities work
• Change Agent: Leading large complex projects and budgets to deliver high-quality, cost-effective services that improve health outcomes.

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience of operating at senior management level, leading large-scale commissioning of complex NHS or public health services across multiple service areas, including at least three of: sexual health and family planning, 0–19 and Start Well, substance misuse, and behaviour change.
• Extensive knowledge of the Health and Social Care Act 2012, statutory public health responsibilities and the Director of Public Health’s local authority and legislation
• Expert knowledge of sexual health and family planning, including datasets and performance data, 0–19 public health nursing, and substance misuse commissioning and provision.
• Knowledge of clinical incident management, serious untoward incidents, death reviews and serious case reviews, alongside strategic and practical understanding of programme leadership and oversight of multiple complex projects.

Benefits of Working for Brighton and Hove City Council

• Work-Life Balance: A mix of in-person and hybrid working will be required.
• Impact: Opportunity to work within an experienced and dedicated team of people to improve health and wellbeing for Brighton and Hove residents.
• The team: Join the Public Heath Senior Management Team who lead an experienced, committed, stable and dedicated team of public health professionals. BHCC is a training location for Public Health Registrars

For an informal conversation about the roles please contact Nicola.lang@brighton-hove.gov.uk

Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.

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Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).

Why work for us?

As a council, we want to:

• be connected
• be confident
• be innovative and creative
• be diverse and inclusive
• be healthy and psychologically safe

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us which gives details of our wellbeing support, our benefits including leave and pensions as well as details of our training and development.

We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.

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