Public Health Practitioner (Advanced) Mental Health/Suicide Prevention

As a Public Health Practitioner, you will lead and support the development, delivery and evaluation of public health prevention programmes, with a particular focus on Public Mental Health and Suicide Prevention. You will work collaboratively with colleagues across the Council, the NHS, voluntary and community organisations, and other key partners to reduce health inequalities and improve population health outcomes. The role also involves using evidence and data to inform decision making, contributing to strategic priorities, and adapting to changing service needs by supporting a range of public health programmes as required.

Job Purpose and Job Context

To develop and deliver an effective public health prevention work programme for specified lead areas/ prevention priorities. This work involves multi-agency working engaging with internal and external stakeholders and customers to deliver against specified prevention priorities and where appropriate instigate behavioural change in these partners.

Main Responsibilities and Duties

Surveillance and assessment of the populations health and well-being

Assessing the evidence of effectiveness of health and healthcare interventions, and translating this into localdelivery of programmes and services

To use academic and best practice evidence to develop high quality public health programmes and services which are expertly project managed in terms of performance, risk management, monitoring and evaluation.

Leadership and collaborative working for health

To develop collaborative working to reduce inequalities and provide leadership and specialist advice concerning public health initiatives and key topic areas to partner organisations; and to influence their contribution to the public health agenda. e. g. Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust (BHT), Thames Valley Police (TVP) etc

Health Protection

To promote and protect the populations health and wellbeing by contributing to the organisational response to public health emergencies including communicable disease outbreaks and major incidents involving chemical, biological or radiological hazards

Policy and strategy development and implementation

To be responsible for interpreting and implementing national public health policy at a local level and support the development and evaluation of long term multi-agency plans and strategies, impacting on a range of community agencies and strategic partnerships. Facilitate public involvement and consultation exercises on designated issues promoting a dialogue with community groups and working in partnership with other public involvement leads. To contribute to the public health work programme and produce business cases for investment in prevention programmes

Research and development

To maintain an up to date specialist knowledge of public health research activity and key findings to inform service developments in all areas, evaluation and audit and work with others on health needs assessment and health impact assessment

Health Improvement

To provide specialist advice to local communities to support the development of action to tackle longstanding and widening health inequality issues, using community development approaches or social marketing as appropriate

Ethically managing self, people, and resources

To ethically manage self and resources and maintain a personal development plan in order to maintain knowledge and skills and work flexibly in order to manage workload to meet the needs of the public health service area.

Values and Behaviours

We expect your values and behaviours to reflect the values of the organisation:

Proud

Ambitious

Collaborative

Trustworthy

About the organisation and teamAt Buckinghamshire Council, public health is at the heart of our work. We are a high-performing, innovative organisation committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our diverse communities. You will join a supportive and collaborative team of Public Health professionals who are passionate about making a positive impact and sharing expertise. We foster an inclusive, flexible and agile working environment that encourages professional development and career progression. Alongside the opportunity to undertake meaningful work, we offer excellent benefits including flexible working arrangements, a generous pension scheme, health and wellbeing initiatives, employee assistance support, staff networks, discounts on a wide range of services, and support towards UK Public Health Register Practitioner accreditation. Our values of being Proud, Ambitious, Collaborative and Trustworthy underpin everything we do and create a culture where colleagues feel valued, empowered and supported to succeed.

Qualifications

Experience