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Director for Public Health - Local Authority

Spencer Clarke Group
Posted 2 days ago, valid for 2 days
Location

London, Greater London EC1R 0WX

Salary

£1,000 per day

Contract type

Full Time

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  • My client in Greater London is seeking a Director for Public Health on a contract basis, offering a salary of £1000+ per day, negotiable based on experience.
  • The role requires extensive experience in Health Service and UKHSA partnership working, along with relevant qualifications including UKPHR registration.
  • The successful candidate will serve as an independent advocate for public health, providing leadership and expert advice to local authority members and senior officers.
  • Key responsibilities include contributing to health and wellbeing strategies, addressing health inequalities, and improving local population health.
  • This hybrid position entails working Monday to Friday from 09:00 to 17:00, with a focus on tackling health issues and promoting wellbeing.

My client in Greater London is looking to appoint talented Director for Public Health on a Contract basis.

The role will be an independent advocate for the health of the population and provide leadership for its improvement and protection, and, as a statutory chief officer of the local authority, lead on advancing the authority's public health objectives.

About the role:

Based in Greater London (Hybrid):

  • Play a key role on the Health and Wellbeing Board, advise on and contribute to the development of joint strategic needs assessments and joint local health and wellbeing strategies, and promote commissioning of appropriate services accordingly
  • Be the person to whom local authority elected members and senior officers look for expertise and advice on public health issues, from improving and protecting local people's health through to outbreaks of disease and emergency preparedness, and access to health services.
  • Provide the local public with expert, objective advice on health matters.
  • Lead work to improve local population health by understanding the factors that determine health and ill health, and how to change behaviour and promote health and wellbeing in ways that also reduce health inequalities.

About you:You will have the following experiences:

  • Relevant qualifications, including a UKPHR registration.
  • Impeccable stakeholder management skills at all levels.
  • Extensive experience in Health Service and UKHSA partnership working.
  • Demonstrable successes in tackling health inequalities, disease / infection prevention and commissioning of services.

What's on offer:

  • Salary: £1000+ per day, inside IR35

*negotiable based on experience

*please submit your CV with the rate you require

  • Hybrid working
  • Contract type: Contract
  • Hours: 09:00 -17:00 Monday to Friday

How to apply

  • Once your CV is received, if you are successful you will be contacted.
  • Due to the extremely high number of applications, it may not be possible to contact every applicant. As such, if you are not contacted please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.

About Spencer Clarke Group

Here at Spencer Clarke Group, we pride ourselves on connecting you with the best career opportunities; our experienced Consultants have extensive market knowledge and will also provide expert career advice along the way.

When you join us, you will receive:

  • Access to a wide range of temporary and permanent opportunities
  • Free DBS checks
  • Post Placement Aftercare
  • Loyalty reward scheme and regular competitions for our agency professionals

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.