Job Details
Wigan Life Centre South
College Avenue
Wigan
WN1 1NJ
Salary: Grade 12, £50,512 - £54,243 per annum.
37 hours per week
4 x permanent positions
1 x temporary position until September 2025
Your role:
In this new role you will have responsibility for the development and implementation of specialist local public health programmes to improve health and wellbeing and address health inequalities. Applying your public health knowledge and skills you will take responsibility for creating and implementing robust and effective plans, working with a range of partners and stakeholders.
You will thrive on innovation and delivering outcomes that make a tangible difference to people’s lives and enjoy bringing forward opportunities for change, promoting innovative thinking, evidence-based decision making and best practice.
Thorough understanding of asset-based working and how this approach can be applied throughout the design and delivery of programmes and projects you will actively contribute to strategic priorities and the ambition of the Health and Wellbeing Board and Healthier Wigan Partnership.
We currently have 5 posts available.
- X 4 substantive roles
- X 1 fixed term post (Tobacco)
The 4 substantive roles will have responsibility across a range of public health priorities including (but not limited) drugs and alcohol, mental wellbeing, health inclusion, children and young people, physical activity, healthy weight and wider determinants of health.
The fixed term post will be responsible for tobacco due to the expansion local smokefree programmes.
About you:
You will have knowledge of public health acquired through relevant degree or equivalent plus additional training and experience. You will be a registered UK Public Health Register Practitioner or working towards registration. The ideal candidate will have excellent knowledge and understanding of asset-based approaches, evidence based public health practice and relevant statutory requirements, a proven commitment to addressing health inequalities, and a sound understanding of current health policy and systems.
We are seeking individuals with the ability to support the delivery of transformational activity and the enabling work programmes and lead on, and participate in, multi-agency project teams and groups so that departmental objectives are achieved.
About us:
Wigan Council has been voted ‘Overall Council of the Year’ at the APSE (Association for Public Service Excellence) Awards and has recently published , our ambitious plan for our borough. We are signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment ensuring that your service will be continuous or 'unbroken' between the supporting organisations.
You’ll be joining a team where we work collaboratively and supportively to get things done, an organisation which has strong political and managerial leadership and real ambition to improve health outcomes for residents. Now is a great time to come and work with us, we are already doing good work but under refreshed leadership there is a renewed energy driving us forward. This is a fantastic opportunity for creative and forward-thinking public health professionals to support the delivery of a new and ambitious public health vision for Wigan and make a real mark in a Council with a strong national reputation.
Here at Wigan, we are proud to support flexible working patterns, when the service can accommodate this. We also take a blended approach to where we work, depending on the work we do. This may include working from home (My Place), the office (Our Place) or the community (Your Place). We like to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits to find out more about working for #TeamWigan.
equality, inclusion and promoting diversity within the borough and aims to recruit a workforce that reflects our diverse communities. We invest in training and developing our staff, in a positive learning environment, and aim to be a consciously inclusive employer. We welcome applications from everybody in the community and would particularly encourage applicants from our underrepresented groups to apply. At Wigan, it is really important to us that applicants demonstrate our Team Wigan behaviours, and we do all we can to make sure that everyone feels like they belong. We have guidance in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process.
Please use the following link to apply:
Interview date: Week commencing Monday 22nd July 2024
