Passionate about Health Protection?

We are offering an exciting opportunity for an experienced Health Protection specialist to join our dynamic team!

The portfolio of the role will include: communicable diseases advice and assurance, working with UKHSA and with local commissioners and providers of health and care, and communities on diseases that are prevalent in our local population; environmental hazards; public health input to emergency planning including outbreak/pandemic planning and extremes of weather; assurance and promotion of the cancer and non-cancer population screening and immunisation programmes.

The post holder reports to the Associate Director of Public Health and manages a programme group within the Public Health team.

The key areas of responsibility for this post include the following:

Insight and intelligence
Strategic leadership
Evaluation, innovation and research
Partnership engagement
Community Engagement and Coproduction approaches
Developing public health skills and leadership
Management of budgets and resources
Commissioning and service delivery

Please contact Natalia Clifford for an informal chat or queries about the role natalia.clifford@towerhamlets.gov.uk

Tower Hamlets vision for our borough is that: people are aspirational, independent and have equal access to opportunities; we are a borough that our residents are proud of and love to live in; and we are a dynamic, outcomes-based council using digital innovation and partnership working to respond to the changing needs of our borough. We want people who aspire to our TOWER values: Together; Open; Willing; Excellent; Respect.

Tower Hamlets has a zero-tolerance approach to, and works to eradicate, all forms of discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, status as a civil partner, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy and maternity and looks to employ a diverse workforce representative of those groups. We recognise that people can also be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class.

We welcome applicants interested in flexible working arrangements and also applicants who live in the borough.