Deputy Director of Public Health

Job Summary

If you're ready to take on a role with real purpose, in a place with real potential, we'd love to hear from you.

Public Health is hosted in Adult Social Services here in Norfolk and our remit extends to all ages and across the breadth of public health practice.

We are proud of our strong relationships across the NHS, district councils, and voluntary sector, which enable integrated, place‑based solutions and with a sophisticated Information and Analytics capability, we are positioned to turn insight into action, ensuring that public health is embedded in every layer of our work.

This role offers the unique option for innovative integrated working with our ICB partner. It's a fantastic opportunity offering a dynamic environment where innovation meets compassion, and where you can help shape the future of health and healthcare in Norfolk.

A Strategic Role with Influence

As Deputy Director of Public Health you'll deputise for the DPH and drive strategies that improve health, reduce health inequalities, and protect communities across Norfolk.

You’ll lead specialist teams across all domains of public health, which may include:

• Healthcare public health
• Population health management
• Tackling health inequalities
• Public health intelligence
• Health improvement and commissioning services
• Health protection and emergency planning

This is a high‑profile role requiring excellent leadership, communication, and partnership skills to influence across organisations and deliver complex public health priorities.

NCC is the place to be. We are a well‑run and well‑managed Council with a strong, supportive and cohesive leadership. All of our colleagues, across the whole county council, are amazing, and contribute to achieving our vision for Norfolk - to be the place where everyone can start life well, live well and age well, and where no one is left behind.

New to Norfolk? You'll love it here!

Norfolk is such a varied county, ideal for however you like to live your life. Whether it’s food and drink, creativity or history that excites you, Norfolk has something for everyone.

Our economy is large, and Norfolk has grown faster than the non‑London UK average in recent years with the Eastern region, Norfolk in particular, fast becoming the home of the most innovative counties in Europe. And our schools and further and higher education providers have an excellent and varied learning offer with 86% of our schools judged as good or outstanding.

Posted on 24 February 2026

Pay scheme:
Other

Salary: £77,732 to £86,720 a year plus an additional market supplement of £5,716 per annum

Contract:

Permanent

Working pattern:
Full‑time, flexible working

Reference number: F

Location:

County Hall, Martineau Lane, Norwich, Norfolk, NR1 2DH

• Delivery of successful change management programmes across organisational boundaries.
• Experience of using complex information to explain public health issues to a range of audiences.

• Strategic thinker with proven leadership skills and operational nous.
• Able to demonstrate and motivate organisations to contribute to improving the public's health and wellbeing through mainstream activities within resources.
• Ability to lead and manage the response successfully in unplanned and unforeseen circumstances.
• Analytical skills able to utilise both qualitative (including health economics) and quantitative information.
• Ability to design, develop, interpret and implement strategies and policies.
• In‑depth understanding of the health and care system and the relationships with both local and national government.
• In‑depth knowledge of methods of developing clinical quality assurance, quality improvement, evaluations and evidence‑based public health practice.
• Strong and demonstrable understanding of interfaces between health, social care and key partners (dealing with wider determinants of health).
• Understanding of the public sector duty and the inequality duty and their application to public health practice.

• In line with legislation, inclusion in the GMC Full and Specialist Register with a licence to…