Public Health Practitioner

Are you passionate about improving health and reducing inequalities through food, nutrition, and community-led approaches? Middlesbrough Council is seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Public Health Practitioner to support the development and delivery of an innovative community food skills and healthy weight capacity-building programme across South Tees. In this exciting role, you will work alongside communities, voluntary organisations and system partners to develop sustainable approaches that help residents gain the knowledge, skills and confidence to make healthier food choices. You will play a key role in ensuring community insight, co-production, and lived experience are at the heart of programme development and delivery. The successful candidate will:

• Develop and deliver practical food skills and healthy eating programmes.
• Co-ordinate and support train-the-trainer initiatives across South Tees.
• Build strong partnerships with community organisations and stakeholders.
• Develop educational resources and capacity-building programmes.
• Support monitoring, evaluation and quality assurance activities.
• Contribute to reducing health inequalities and improving healthy weight outcomes for local residents.
  
  A nutrition degree or significant experience working within public health nutrition.
• Experience delivering cooking skills, healthy eating or community-based training programmes.
• Strong communication, facilitation and partnership-working skills.
• An understanding of food insecurity, obesity, health inequalities and the wider determinants of health.
• Excellent organisational and project management skills.
In return, we offer the opportunity to make a real difference to the health and wellbeing of communities across South Tees while working within a supportive and ambitious Public Health team. If you are passionate about empowering communities, developing local capacity and improving population health outcomes, we would love to hear from you.