Public Health Practitioners: Air Quality - Swindon, United Kingdom - Swindon Borough Council

Swindon Borough Council

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Swindon, United Kingdom

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At Swindon Borough Council, we want our town to be the best it can be. Our ambitious vision is supported by realistic transformation programmes, with the people of Swindon at their heart. Because that's who we're doing it for - the communities and businesses that make our town great. As part of the Council, you'll support a friendly local authority making decisions with real impact. It's all for better public services. Better processes. And a better quality of life, for everyone. Join us, and Swindon will be better with you.

The Public Health Team at Swindon Borough Council is seeking to recruit three Public Health Practitioners to work on the Health Improvement portfolio to support our key priorities of active travel, healthy weight and tobacco control.

Our vision is to create healthy, strong and resilient communities.

Our highly successful public health team works to improve and protect the health of Swindon residents, tackle health inequalities and protect the most vulnerable.

Main duties of the job

As a Public Health Practitioner, you will be responsible for providing practitioner support and expertise to improve population health and wellbeing.

You will work with a range of partners to develop and deliver a sustainable programme of activities, using a range of evidence-based public health skills and expertise to ensure our interventions are targeted to reduce inequalities and to deliver our strategic priorities.

We are recruiting three separate fixed-term Public Health Practitioner posts, each of which contributes to our priority areas.

Air quality and promoting active travel
Healthy weight and promoting active travel
Tobacco control and reducing the prevalence of smoking in Swindon

We offer you hybrid working at the present time with a requirement to be able to travel to Swindon Borough Council Offices and across the Borough as required.

About You

Experience working in the field of public health, a healthrelated area or in an area directly relevant to these posts.
A good working knowledge of different aspects of public health.
Understanding of local government, NHS, public, voluntary and community sector.
An understanding of epidemiology and statistics, public health practice, health promotion, health economics and health care evaluation.

About Us
Please see our Rewards and Benefits offer for more details.

As an employee, you will receive a diverse and exciting environment in which to work, encouraging creativity and innovation whilst recognising the need to support ongoing personal development and a flexible work life balance.

For Swindon to thrive in the future, we need to lay the foundations now. It's why our regeneration and transformation programmes are already underway. So, you'll be joining us at an exciting time on our journey. We'll look to you to share your knowledge, influence decisions and drive real, positive change. With your contributions, we'll achieve our vision of a prosperous, re-vitalised Swindon together. And you'll be proud to say it was made better with you.

Please see our Vison and Values page for more details

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