Job Details
People
Public Health
Consultant in Public Health
Ref: 000816
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £80,630 - £90,057 per annum (AD2)
Hours: 36.66 per week
Based: Spindles Town Square, Oldham, OL1 1HD
Closing Date: Sunday 22nd June 2025
Interview Date: Tuesday 5th August 2025
Role Overview:
In your role as Consultant in Public Health, you will provide public health advice and leadership, to improve health outcomes and reduce health inequalities in Oldham, working across the Council, the NHS and key partners. You will support the Director of Public Health to discharge the Council’s statutory public health responsibilities and deputise for the DPH as needed.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide public health expertise across the breadth of public health, leading a defined portfolio, including management and resource responsibilities for your lead areas.
- Work with a wide range of stakeholders across the Council, and with partners agencies and voluntary organisations to improve public health outcomes and reduce health inequalities.
- Responsibility for development, implementation and delivery of strategic plans and policies, with delegated organisational authority to deliver key public health targets.
- Provide public health leadership to support and inform an evidence-based approach for commissioning and developing high quality equitable services in Oldham.
Key Requirements:
- To ensure the development and utilisation of information and intelligence to underpin public health improvement and action for the population of Oldham across disciplines and organisations.
- To lead on developing inter-agency and interdisciplinary strategic plans for securing health improvement in the population of Oldham and in vulnerable groups at high risk of poor health and reduced life expectancy.
- Provide support to Oldham’s Health and Wellbeing Board, and other relevant strategic boards to drive Public Health action and achieve the greatest population health impact.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and therefore expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
About Us:
We want Oldham to have vibrant, safe neighbourhoods where people are proud to live with opportunities for healthier, more fulfilled lives; and a sustainable, thriving economy. As we look to the future, the challenges may be significant, but so are the opportunities. We’ve identified three missions with our residents and partners, focusing on what will deliver the biggest impact:
A Great Place to Live, Healthier, Happier Lives, and Green and Growing.
We’re looking for candidates who will support us to achieve our ambitions and we encourage you to download our Corporate Plan: Ready for the Future and our Oldham Plan for further information.
Our Values and Behaviours:
By driving innovation, investing in our people, and championing our communities, we will ensure that Oldham continues to be a place where everyone can live their best life. To support this, we have three core values which define who we are and how we operate. These are ‘Proud, Ambitious, and Together’, and they shape our culture, inform our decisions, and inspire us to deliver on our commitments to the people of Oldham.
We have translated these values into five behaviours which guide our actions and are the standards we hold ourselves to, day in and day out:
- Work with a resident focus
- Support local leaders
- Committed to the borough
- Delivery high performance
- Take ownership and drive change
You can find out more about our values and behaviours on our greater.jobs Oldham page
Our Benefits Package:
At Oldham Council we offer a great benefits package for our employees, which includes the following:
- 25 days annual leave which increases after 5 and 10-years’ service
- The option to purchase additional annual leave.
- An attractive LGPS benefit pension scheme with the option to make shared cost additional voluntary contributions.
- Discounted gym membership with Oldham Active.
- Staff discount scheme for shopping, entertainment, eating-out, eating-in, travel, motoring and more.
- Salary sacrifice scheme for home and electronics and Cycle to Work.
- Wellbeing support, including a Mental Health First Aider network and an Employment Assistance Programme that provides 24 hours access to advice and support.
- Staff recognition and celebration events.
- Peer support groups
Inclusive Recruitment:
We work closely with employees to help them work at their best, including making adjustments such as flexible working, describing available working patterns, providing equipment or making changes to the workplace.
NB. - Any candidate that meets the criteria of our Guaranteed Assessment Scheme and meets the essential criteria of the role, will be guaranteed the first stage of assessment (whether that is an interview or another assessment, as appropriate).
Our Guaranteed Assessment Scheme supports candidates with disabilities, have previously been in or currently in care, those that are carers, and those who have served in the Armed Forces as a regular, reserve or cadet.
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Important Information:
Please note that should a vacancy that has been released for internal or external recruitment be deemed suitable for a current employee at risk of redundancy, it can be pulled back at any point, up to the post being formally offered to a candidate who is not at risk of redundancy.