Health & Wellbeing Support Officer, Maldon

Maldon District Council is working in partnership with Essex Shared Services to support the role of Health & Wellbeing Support Officer, a full-time position offering hybrid working with an expectation of attending the office 2 days per week.

Role Purpose: Contributing to public health improvements for residents. Using data to help inform health and well-being priorities, working with services to help improve Public Health outcomes and to assist with the development of projects.

Accountabilities - Service Delivery:

• Deliver public health improvements for residents to tackle health inequalities in the district by supporting the promotion of the principles of public health across all council departments.
• Collaborating with Maldon District partners and communities to support positive health outcomes across health, voluntary and community sectors.
• Partnership working with Essex County Council, neighbouring districts and health, community and voluntary partners as part of place-based working approaches, focusing on shadowing and learning opportunities to develop partnership skills.
• Benchmarking best practice from other local authorities and using this to shape local plans.
• Supporting action to create healthy environments, strategies and policies.
• Linking staff, partners, businesses and community groups to local community initiatives, assets and support.
• Deputising at Maldon District Livewell Partnership meetings and translating national and local public health priorities, datasets and evidence into meaningful language for community and voluntary groups.
• Supporting the administration of the Health Integration team's funding pots and disseminating funding to successful applicants, processing applications against criteria and tracking spend.
• Supporting the Health Integration team to identify sources of external funding to maximise impact and reach of public health activities across the district.
• Being accountable for delivery of KPIs that directly support the Council's Supporting our communities priority in the Corporate Plan.
• Developing and supporting best practice public health project management and data evaluation methodologies and processes across Maldon Livewell Partnership.
• Assisting with the delivery of national and regional Public Health campaigns for the Council.
• Developing skills to manage small projects under supervision.
• Undertaking desk-based research, data collection, and analysis to support the team's data and evaluation processes, using data across population, deprivation, health needs and wider determinants domains.
• Demonstrating a strong interest in developing skills in handling both quantitative and qualitative data to better support team insights and evidence-based practice.
• Undertaking training to become a Health Impact Assessment (HIA) consultee, supporting the team to implement and process HIAs.
• Encouraging customers to use online services and promoting digital inclusion.
• Encouraging customer feedback to improve services.
• Developing and maintaining an extensive knowledge and understanding of health and well-being issues.
• Completing other tasks which may be considered appropriate.
• Be willing to improve and develop professional competencies, engaging with public health practitioner learning opportunities as appropriate to the role.

The Experience You Will Bring:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent professional qualification or experience in Public Health, Social Sciences, Data Analytics or a related field.
• Demonstrable interest or experience in working with qualitative and quantitative data datasets, with proficiency in using basic data and spreadsheet software (e.g., Microsoft Excel).
• UK Driving Licence essential or able to travel around the district.
• Commitment to working towards registration as a Public Health Practitioner on the UK Public Health Register, with an understanding of public health principles and professional standards.
• Sound knowledge of Data Protection legislation.
• Policy development, including contributing to the creation, review, and implementation of policies that support service delivery and improvement.
• Knowledge of core project management methodologies and tools, and a willingness to develop in this area to support the planning, coordination, and successful implementation of projects to agreed timescales and objectives.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Excellent level of IT skills including researching.

Maldon District Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable groups including children, young people and adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Disclosure and Barring checks will be undertaken according to the responsibilities of the role. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, culture and experience. Applicants will be considered regardless of race, sex, disability or marital status. Maldon District Council is committed to the employment and career development of disabled people. To demonstrate our commitment, we have been accredited as a Disability Confident Employer. As a Disability Confident Employer we take various actions in order to successfully employ and retain disabled people and those with health conditions.