North Northamptonshire Council
Public Health Practitioner
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About The Role
Public Health Northamptonshire seek a Public Health Practitioner to work on the children and young people’s agenda. You will play a key part in improving the health of children and young people in Northamptonshire through prevention and health improvement approaches across the health and social care economy, and in supporting the implementation of evidence-based public health programmes/interventions to improve health and reduce health inequalities. A commitment to equity, inclusion, and co-production with families is essential.
This role is 0.6 WTE (22.2 hours per week) and is a 12-month fixed-term appointment.
Your application should be structured on the essential and desirable criteria in the job description.
Please note that previous applicants from within the past 3 months need not apply.
The closing date for this post is Wednesday, 12th August 2026.
Interviews are currently expected to be held on Monday 24th August.
If you want to find out more about the role, please contact Helene Denness at helene.denness@northnorthants.gov.uk
What will you be doing?
This role will focus on partnership working across the system to improve the public health outcomes for children, young people and families, whilst reducing health inequalities.
The Scope Of This Role Includes
- Providing public health input to partnership actions to improve outcomes for children and young people with long-term conditions,
- Supporting public health aspects of safeguarding agendas and SEND transformation,
- Coordinating public health-led actions that support children, young people and families who need more support to thrive.
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You will report to the Public Health Principal for Children and Young People and will work across the children’s portfolio to support the team and organisation in achieving the desired outcomes.
About You
We are looking for an experienced, passionate individual with excellent communication and interpersonal skills who works collaboratively with key stakeholders across a network of settings to influence stakeholders at all levels. Given the scope of the role, we are particularly interested in applications from experienced children’s nurses with community experience who are already working at a senior level, or who have transferable skills. Experience in leading service transformation or strategic commissioning would be an advantage.
Our benefits
Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.
You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!
Why choose us?
We Offer a Vibrant Working Environment With
- a competitive salary
- a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
- lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
- generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
- hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.
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Our Values and Behaviours
Our Values Define Who We Are And How We Operate, By Forming The Foundation For How We Interact With Our Customers, Colleagues And Provide Our Services. They Are Also At The Forefront Of Our Decision Making And Delivery And Are
- Customer-focused
- Respectful
- Efficient
- Supportive
- Trustworthy
Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.
Disability Confident Employer
We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.
Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council
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Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council
Attached documents
- CYP Public Health Practitioner NNC.pdf
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