Public Health Support Officer

1
6 June 2022
Fixed Term
Full Time
until March 2025
County Hall, Loughborough Road, Nottingham, NG2 7QP
Adult Social Care and Health
22nd June 2022
£32,798 - £37,568 per annum

The Public Health division at Nottinghamshire County Council commissions a range of Public Health services and works with other organisations to improve health and wellbeing in the population and to reduce health inequalities.
Are you a highly motivated with a passion for helping survivors of substance misuse? This is an exciting opportunity to take on a substance misuse role within the Public Health division at Nottinghamshire County Council.

Qualified to degree level in Public Health or a related subject, or with equivalent demonstrable experience in substance misuse services. You will have excellent communication and partnership working skills, and be able to develop relationships with senior staff, elected members, external organisations and partners. You will be accountable to a Senior Public Health and Commissioning Manager and will work in a complex, multi-agency environment. You will have a flexible approach and be aware the needs about substance misuse.

You will be part of a team who deliver the Substance Misuse portfolio requirements and administer the Local Partnership Board in Nottinghamshire. The Substance Misuse Commissioning team work closely with a wide range of stakeholders including; Districts and Borough Councils, Police and Crime Commissioners Office, Police, NHS and Voluntary and the Substance Misuse Service CGL Nottinghamshire.

Depending on individual circumstances you will initially be primarily based remotely at home or at County Hall, West Bridgford.

Nottinghamshire County Council has an NHS Pension Direction Order in place, which means that we are able to provide ongoing access to the NHS Pension Scheme (NHSPS) where we recruit eligible new joiners to public health roles who are already in the NHSPS.

For an informal discussion about this post, please contact Rebecca Atchinson, Senior Public Health and Commissioning Manager Sarah Quilty sarah.quilty@nottscc.gov.uk or Tristan Snowdon- Poole Tristan.Snowdon-Poole@nottscc.gov.uk

Disabled applicants who meet the essential shortlisting requirements will be guaranteed an interview. A job share scheme is available for all full-time posts: both permanent and temporary, unless otherwise stated. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff to share this commitment and undergo appropriate checks.

Nottinghamshire County Council strives to ensure that it goes beyond the requirements of the Equalities Act and prides itself on being accredited as a Disability Confident Leader Organisation.

Therefore, the County Council encourages applications from all, irrespective of gender, marital status, disability, race, religion, belief, pregnancy and maternity status, age or sexual orientation.

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