Public Health Officer


Company:	Cambridgeshire County Council
Salary:	£38,510 to £40,444 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Huntingdon, PE28 4YE
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	28 Sept 2026
Closing date:	27 Oct 2026

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Summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Public Health Service as part of the Prevention and Inclusion Team.

Our team works to improve health and wellbeing, reduce health inequalities and support residents to live healthier, more independent lives. We do this through prevention, partnership working, evidence-based practice and innovative approaches to behaviour change.

Working to the Consultant in Public Health for the Prevention and Inclusion the post will support the Prevention and Inclusion Team across a broad portfolio of prevention-focused activities that includes strategy development, programme delivery and commissioning. Areas covered include health behaviours, substance misuse healthy ageing, cardiovascular disease prevention and mental health

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…

A comprehensive

wellbeing package to cover

all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family

Buy up to

4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme

Take your bank holidays

flexibly to better suit

your personal circumstances

Make

Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings

Access to

development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support

your personal and professional growth

Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a

positive impact on our community during your normal working day

Access to

Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff

equality, diversity and inclusion network

Opportunities to nominate and receive

Employee Recognition Awards

Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online

discounts as well as our

Car Lease and

Cycle to Work schemes

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.

What will you be doing?

As a Public Health Officer, you will support the development, delivery and continuous improvement of programmes and services that help prevent ill health, promote healthy lifestyles and reduce inequalities across Cambridgeshire. You will work closely with colleagues across Public Health and more widely across Cambridgeshire County Council with NHS organisations, district councils, community organisations and commissioned providers to support delivery of shared priorities.

You will play an important role in ensuring programmes are well coordinated, effectively managed and informed by evidence, helping to improve outcomes for residents and communities.

In this role, you will:

Support the planning, coordination and delivery of public health projects, programmes and commissioned services.

Monitor progress against plans, milestones, performance indicators and outcomes, producing reports and updates for senior colleagues.

Organise and support meetings, workshops and partnership groups, including preparing papers, recording actions and following up on agreed actions.

Maintain project documentation, risk logs, action plans and performance reporting systems.

Support effective communication and collaboration with internal teams, partners and stakeholders.

Assist with data collection, analysis and interpretation to support service improvement and decision-making.

Contribute to research, evaluation and evidence reviews to inform public health policy and practice.

Support commissioning, procurement, contract management, and performance monitoring activities.

Assist with budget monitoring and administrative processes associated with programme delivery.

About you

We are looking for a motivated and organised individual but also flexible, with strong project coordination skills and a passion for improving population health and reducing health inequalities.

You will bring:

A degree or equivalent experience.

An understanding of public health principles, prevention, and health inequalities.

An awareness of behaviour change approaches and the wider factors that influence health and wellbeing.

An understanding of the role of local government, the NHS, voluntary and community organisations in improving health outcomes.

Experience supporting or coordinating projects, programmes, or services, with the ability to manage competing priorities across multiple workstreams.

Strong organisational and planning skills, with the ability to work independently and collaboratively.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build positive working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.

The ability to work confidently with data, reports, and performance information.

A commitment to improving outcomes for residents and supporting a fairer, healthier Cambridgeshire.

This is an excellent opportunity to develop your public health knowledge and experience

while contributing to a broad and varied portfolio of work that supports healthier lives,

stronger communities, and reduced inequalities across Cambridgeshire.

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers

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