Public Health Officer

Job Summary

Are you passionate about giving every child the best start in life? Are you looking to work in an area where you can make an impact improving health and wellbeing in early years settings across North Northamptonshire? We are looking to recruit a Public Health Officer - Healthy Early Years Coordinator on a 12 month fixed term contract to join our friendly and forward thinking Public Health team at North Northamptonshire Council.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a central role in promoting the health and wellbeing of our youngest residents and their families. Working within a dynamic, knowledgeable and supportive team, you will lead and coordinate key public health initiatives across the early years system helping to embed evidence based practice, reduce health inequalities, and strengthen the foundations for lifelong health.

• Act as a key point of contact for early years settings, supporting them to deliver high quality health promotion and improvement activities.
• Lead the development and implementation of a Healthy Early Years Programme, working collaboratively with partners, settings, professionals, and families.
• Strengthen engagement with early years providers, supporting them to embed health and wellbeing standards.
• Coordinate and deliver training, campaigns, projects and resources that promote physical activity, mental wellbeing, nutrition and other areas of child health.
• Analyse data, intelligence and feedback to improve services, inform planning and drive positive outcomes for children aged 0‑5.
• Help shape policy and practice by staying up to date with relevant evidence, guidance, legislation and national priorities.
• Manage key pieces of public health development work, in line with local and national priorities and emerging legislation, to meet Public Health and Wellbeing Service Plans and national and local public health strategy.
• Provide process redesign expertise to the Public Health team and be accountable for the planning, co‑ordination, facilitation and monitoring of public health change or improvement projects; developing capability and capacity to embed service improvement tools and techniques supporting the continuous modernisation and redesign of traditional service.
• Identify opportunities to improve and/or simplify directorate processes and seek to remedy these through improved processes, compliance or coaching.
• Represent Public Health within Local Area Partnerships across North Northamptonshire.
• Contribute to project planning within specific public health priority areas, ensuring that a clear and transparent plan is maintained and managed using NNC project management methodology to track progress, in order to maintain control of delivering improved services using cost effective processes.
• Support health improvement initiatives through engaging clinicians, commissioners and local authority providers in new initiatives to change behaviour, increasing public awareness of risk factors and health promotion.
• Support health protection planning and the local public health response to major incidents, disease outbreaks or other public health incidents.
• Monitor changing guidance at a national and regional level, bring attention to the public health areas it will impact and tailor the public health programme according to the population need with the aim of reducing health inequalities.
• Enhance the engagement and delivery of health promotion and health improvement projects related to children and young people (CYP) in the early years.
• Communicate effectively, develop and maintain strong relationships, with both internal and external stakeholders, especially early years settings, to ensure the successful delivery of key CYP programmes.
• Analysis of data and intelligence gathered through surveys and audits and production of summary reports which inform and target positive transformation for health and wellbeing of CYP.
• Support the design and delivery of targeted CYP public health campaigns ensuring quality in the design and delivery and close working with internal and external communication teams and colleagues.
• Manage an online presence via social media and relevant web…