AddressThis is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
- Job Title: Population Health Intell & Evidence Off
- Job Location: Shire Hall, Block 2, 2nd Floor
- Salary: £39,186 - £44,428 per annum
- Hours per Week: 37.00
- Contract Type: Fixed Term
- Duration: 18 months
- Closing Date: 11/04/2024
- Job Requisition Number: 5115
- This post is not open to job share
Are you passionate about public Health Intelligence, partnership working and making a difference?
About the Team & Role
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.
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.
How you’ll help make a difference
Being the Population Health Intelligence & Evidence Officer, you will be responsible for supporting the Consultants in Public Health in providing expert public health advice to the Integrated Care System including the Clinical Programme Approach and One Place, One Budget, One System.
About You
To be successful you will need experience of: partnership working; identifying, interpreting, synthesising and reporting evidence developing, implementing and managing programmes and projects; as well as evaluation skills.
Examples of projects this post might include are:
- Undertaking an evidence review of prevention approaches in healthy ageing.
- Interpretation and communication of intelligence within health needs assessments.
- Support to system groups to understand inequalities and make evidence-based recommendations.
- Support the development of JSNA products through working with topic experts.
- Develop an evaluation framework for falls prevention and high blood pressure identification.
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 a minimum of two days per week in the office, which is based in 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
For all of your hard work, you will receive the following:
- 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.
If you would like to have an informal discussion about the role please contact Jamie Fagg: Jamie.fagg@gloucestershire.gov.uk
Interviews are provisionally planned for last week of April/first week of May
Additional Information
To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:-
Population Health Intelligence and Evidence Officer
This position is not remote; therefore, candidates must reside in the UK and be able to work from the office based in central Gloucester.
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.
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