Public Health Consultant

CornwallCouncil is launching a recruitment round for two Consultant in Public Health posts, each offering a unique and exciting opportunity to shape the healthand wellbeing of our diverse communities across Cornwall and the Isles ofScilly.

Main duties of the job

As a senior member of the public health leadership team, you will:

• Provide high-quality expert advice across the Council and the Integrated Care System
• Work closely with elected Members, senior officers and partners
• Lead strategic programmes to reduce inequalities and improve outcomes
• Oversee evidence, intelligence, JSNA development and priority setting
• Contribute to health protection, emergency response and resilience functions
• Support workforce development, training and educational supervision
• Deputise for the Director of Public Health as required

About us

Cornwall Councils ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.

• Our core employee rewards and benefits include:
• a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
• a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
• A national award winning employee health and wellbeing programme
• Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.

Cornwall Council is unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfer existing sponsorship for this role.

Please note, as this is a position with Cornwall Council, if your application is shortlisted, your details will be securely transferred to Cornwall Council's recruitment system for the purposes of progressing your application.

Job responsibilities

Cornwall Council is launching a recruitment round for two Consultant in Public Health posts, each offering a unique and exciting opportunity to shape the health and wellbeing of our diverse communities across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We are looking for exceptional public health leaders with the credibility, experience and vision to drive system-wide improvement and reduce health inequalities.

These senior posts sit within the Wellbeing and Public Health Service and will play a critical role in delivering Cornwalls ambition for a healthier, fairer and more sustainable future.

Cornwall offers a unique opportunity to combine meaningful professional impact with an exceptional quality of life. As the largest unitary authority in England, we face significant and varied public health challenges from rural isolation to coastal deprivation, climate vulnerability and complex inequalities.

We are a forward-thinking Council committed to:

• Prevention and early intervention
• Health in all policies
• Climate action and sustainability
• Integrated system working
• Reducing entrenched health inequalities

Our Integrated Care System is investing heavily in prevention and equity, with a strong partnership between the Council, NHS and voluntary sector.

About the Roles

As a senior member of the public health leadership team, you will:

• Provide high-quality expert advice across the Council and the Integrated Care System
• Work closely with elected Members, senior officers and partners
• Lead strategic programmes to reduce inequalities and improve outcomes
• Oversee evidence, intelligence, JSNA development and priority setting
• Contribute to health protection, emergency response and resilience functions
• Support workforce development, training and educational supervision
• Deputise for the Director of Public Health as required

This role leads Cornwalls Best Start in Life agenda, providing strategic leadership across:

• Maternity and early years
• Health Visiting, School Nursing and Family Nurse Partnership
• Children's emotional health and wellbeing
• Oral health improvement
• Child health intelligence, outcomes and inequalities

You will work closely with the ICS, education, early years services, safeguarding partners, and communities to embed prevention, improve outcomes and ensure high-quality, equitable services for children and families.

Post 2: Consultant in Public Health Wider Determinants, Housing, Planning & Healthy Weight

This role leads on the wider determinants of health, working across the Council and IC to influence major system levers including:

• Housing, planning and transport
• Economic inclusion and community resilience
• Climate change and environmental sustainability
• Healthy Weight strategy and population-level prevention
• Fuel poverty, air quality and built environment health impacts

You will be a senior advocate for health in all policies and a key leader in shaping a carbon neutral, equitable Cornwall.

Both roles are open to medical and non-medical public health specialists, in line with FPH guidance.

For informal enquiries about either role, please contact: Dr Eunan ONeill email Eunan.ONeill@cornwall.gov.uk

Please specify your preference (CYP,Maternity or Wider Determinants) in your application, or indicate if you wish to be considered for both roles.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Please refer to the attached role profile

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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