Public Health Officer

As a Public Health Officer, you will support the development and delivery of a range of programmes that aim to create healthier environments and address the wider determinants of health. This includes work on health inequalities, healthy place approaches, and equity-focused research and evaluation. You will play an important role in ensuring programmes are well coordinated, effectively managed, and deliver meaningful impact for our communities. You will work closely with colleagues across public health, the wider council, NHS partners, and the voluntary and community sector to support delivery of shared priorities. In this role, you will provide project and programme support across a range of public health priorities. Your day-to-day work will include:

• Supporting the planning, coordination, and delivery of public health projects and programmes
• Monitoring progress against plans, milestones, and outcomes, and producing reports and updates for senior colleagues
• Organising and supporting meetings, including preparing papers, taking minutes, and following up on actions
• Maintaining project documentation such as plans, risk and issue logs, and reporting templates
• Supporting effective communication and collaboration with internal teams and external partners
• Assisting with data collection, analysis, and presentation to inform decision-making and track impact
• Contributing to research, evaluation, and evidence-gathering activity to support service improvement
• Supporting budget monitoring and administrative processes related to programme delivery, 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 looking for a motivated and organised individual with strong project coordination skills and an interest in improving Public Health outcomes.
You will bring:
• A degree or equivalent experience
• An understanding of public health principles and the wider determinants of health
• Awareness of the policy and organisational context for public health delivery (including the role of local government, the NHS, and partners)
• Experience supporting or coordinating projects, with the ability to manage competing priorities and work across multiple workstreams
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to work both independently and as part of a team
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with a range of stakeholders
• The ability to work accurately with data, reports, and project information
  
  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.
  
  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
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes