Public Health Practitioner, Prevention Gambling Harms – New Shire Hall, Emery Crescent, Enterprise Campus, Alconbury Weald, Huntingdon, United Kingdom
Our Benefits
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
Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.
About the role
Our organisation is committed to improving health outcomes and reducing inequalities across our communities. As part of this mission, we are looking for a passionate and skilled Public Health Practitioner to lead on Gambling Harms Prevention.
This role sits within our Public Health team and willprovidepublic health advice to support the strategic development of gambling harms prevention and ensure that programme deliverables are achieved. It contributes directly to the delivery of our organisations Public Health Strategic Plan, the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Health and Wellbeing Strategy as well as Cambridgeshire County Councils Strategic Objectives. You will work across council departments and with external partners to design, implement and evaluate evidence-based public health programmes that support healthier lifestyles and reduce preventable illness.
About you
About You
You will have:
- A degree in a relevant health or scientific discipline (Masters in Public Health or related subject desirable).
- Strong knowledge of public health theory, epidemiology, and behaviour change approaches.
- Experience in developing, delivering, and evaluating public health programmes.
- Excellent communication and partnership-building skills.
- A proactive, analytical, and inclusive approach to problem-solving.
Experience in Prevention and Gambling Harms/Addiction related programmes is highly desirable.
About usCambridgeshire 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 are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.https://youtu.be/DDE1nplZttYVisit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers…