Senior Public Health Practitioner for Older Adults

Job Details:

Job Reference: HCC624420
Salary Range: £50,564 - £56,219 per annum
Work Location: Elizabeth II Court, Winchester (Hybrid Working)
Hours per week: 37 (part-time hours could be considered from a minimum of 30 hours per week)
Contract Type: Temporary for 13 months
Closing Date: 13 September 2026

The Role:

Early applications are encouraged as we may close the advert ahead of the stated closing date.

Join our well-established and dynamic Public Health Team as a Senior Public Health Practitioner for Older Adults and take the next step in your public health career. You’ll play a key role in addressing health inequalities and preventing ill-health across our communities, helping to improve outcomes for some of our most vulnerable populations.

As part of our Hampshire Public Health Team, we enjoy the challenge of working innovatively and collaboratively, continuously improving our approach to public health initiatives and driving meaningful change through to delivery. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to impactful, forward-thinking and expanding projects that support older adults to live longer in better health, alongside improving the health and wellbeing of adults with learning disabilities.

What you’ll do:

• Lead and deliver innovative and expanding public health projects, with a particular focus on supporting older adults to live longer, healthier lives.
• Support the health and wellbeing needs of adults with learning disabilities through tailored, evidence-based approaches.
• Build strong, effective relationships with a wide range of stakeholders across multi-agency settings.
• Use research, data and public health intelligence to gather, interpret and present complex information clearly to diverse audiences.
• Identify opportunities for improvement and implement creative, transformative ways of working.
• Contribute to reducing health inequalities through targeted and impactful interventions.

What we’re looking for:

• Significant experience working in a public health role.
• Educated to Master’s degree level in a relevant discipline.
• Strong understanding of public health concepts and your ability to use evidence-based research methods and practice.

• Proven ability to analyse, interpret and communicate complex data effectively.
• Experience of partnership working across multi-agency settings, with excellent interpersonal and influencing skills.
• A creative, forward-thinking mindset with the ability to drive innovation and change.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with the confidence to engage a variety of audiences.

Take a look at our Candidate Pack for more information about the Senior Public Health Practitioner for Older Adults role, team and our values. The section ‘About you’ explains what specific knowledge, skills and experience we want you to tell us about.  Make sure you explain how you meet these requirements and demonstrate our values, in your application.

Why join us?

• Be part of a supportive, experienced and forward-thinking Public Health Team.
• Work on impactful projects that directly improve population health and reduce inequalities.
• Opportunity to innovate and shape future ways of working in public health.
• Collaborate with a wide network of partners across the health and care system.
• Develop your skills and advance your career in a role that offers both challenge and reward.
• Access to Health Assured's comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme to support your physical and mental wellbeing, including 24/7 telephone support, a suite of online resources, and legal and financial advice.
• A competitive benefits package that includes generous annual leave entitlement, occupational sick pay, and access to the Local Government Pension Scheme. Find more information  here .   

Applicants can expect to hear from us within two weeks of the advertised closing date.

Please note: We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role and therefore it is essential that you already have the right to work in the UK before applying.

Travel Requirements:

You may be required to visit other locations within Hampshire, and therefore need to have the ability to travel, as necessary.  

Values Based Recruitment:

We are passionate about our values:

• Collaborative: Working together, combining talents and sharing resources to shape decisions and actions, and to maximise health outcomes.
• Equalities-driven: Reducing inequalities and promoting equity in all we do, so that no one is left behind as we strive for better health and wellbeing.
• Outcome focussed:  Prioritising our work based on evidence, effectiveness and value for money to improve quality outcomes and prevent ill health.
• Sustainable: Being future-focussed. Creating lasting change in local systems and communities. Developing our work through a climate change lens to achieve health and climate benefits. 

We practice values-based recruitment in Public Health and invite you to evidence how you demonstrate our values in your application. The interview for the role will also be values based and will explore how you will be able to contribute to these.

Additional Information:

Senior Public Health Practitioner for Older Adults Candidate Pack

Contact Details for an Informal Discussion:

For general enquiries, please contact View email address on careers.newjob.org.uk

For an informal chat about the role, please contact Julia Waters, Public Health Principal, via View email address on careers.newjob.org.uk

Hampshire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.

In order to combat discrimination, no unnecessary conditions or requirements will be applied which could have a disproportionately adverse effect on any one group. All sections of the population will have equal access to jobs. No applicant or employee will receive less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership and pregnancy or maternity, unless a Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR) applies.

We are a Disability Confident Employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.