Public Health Consultant

The Service & Team:

Cornwall Council is launching a recruitment round for two Consultant in Public Health posts each offering a unique and exciting opportunity to shape the health and wellbeing of our diverse communities across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We are looking for exceptional public health leaders with the credibility experience and vision to drive system-wide improvement and reduce health inequalities.

These senior posts sit within the Wellbeing and Public Health Service and will play a critical role in delivering Cornwalls ambition for a healthier fairer and more sustainable future.

Cornwall offers a unique opportunity to combine meaningful professional impact with an exceptional quality of life. As the largest unitary authority in England we face significant and varied public health challengesfrom rural isolation to coastal deprivation climate vulnerability and complex inequalities.

We are a forward-thinking Council committed to:

• Prevention and early intervention
• Healthinallpolicies
• Climate action and sustainability
• Integrated system working
• Reducing entrenched health inequalities

Our Integrated Care System is investing heavily in prevention and equity with a strong partnership between the Council NHS and voluntary sector.

The Roles:

As a senior member of the public health leadership team you will:

• Provide high-quality expert advice across the Council and the Integrated Care System
• Work closely with elected Members senior officers and partners
• Lead strategic programmes to reduce inequalities and improve outcomes
• Oversee evidence intelligence JSNA development and priority setting
• Contribute to health protection emergency response and resilience functions
• Support workforce development training and educational supervision
• Deputise for the Director of Public Health as required

Post 1: Consultant in Public Health Children Young People & Maternity

This role leads Cornwalls Best Start in Life agenda providing strategic leadership across:

• Maternity and early years
• Health Visiting School Nursing and Family Nurse Partnership
• Childrens emotional health and wellbeing
• Oral health improvement
• Child health intelligence outcomes and inequalities

You will work closely with the ICS education early years services safeguarding partners and communities to embed prevention improve outcomes and ensure high-quality equitable services for children and families.

Post 2: Consultant in Public Health Wider Determinants Housing Planning & Healthy Weight

This role leads on the wider determinants of health working across the Council and ICS to influence major system levers including:

• Housing planning and transport
• Economic inclusion and community resilience
• Climate change and environmental sustainability
• Healthy Weight strategy and population-level prevention
• Fuel poverty air quality and built environment health impacts

You will be a senior advocate for healthinallpolicies and a key leader in shaping a carbonneutral equitable Cornwall.

This is a public/customer-facing role where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.

This position will be subject to a enhanced criminal record disclosure check.

Working Pattern:

Both roles are permanent full-time positions with a 37-hour working week.

What youll need to succeed:

We are seeking dynamic collaborative and strategic public health consultants who can navigate complexity influence at the highest level and deliver measurable population health impact.

You must be:

• Included on the GMC Specialist Register GDC Specialist List (Dental PH) or UKPHR Specialist Register at the point of application OR
• A Public Health Specialty Registrar within 6 months of CCT at interview with appropriate deanery evidence
• Uptodate with CPD in line with Faculty of Public Health requirements
• Experienced in delivering system leadership partnership working and evidencebased public health practice
• Skilled at communicating complex data managing change and influencing policy

Both roles are open to medical and non-medical public health specialists in line with FPH guidance.

Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert

What youll get in return:

Cornwall Councils ambition is to be an employer of choice a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.

Our core employee rewards and benefits include:

a competitive salary.

a defined benefit pension scheme based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions

a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.

A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme

Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.

Additional Information:

Cornwall Council is unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfer existing sponsorship for this role.

The full role profile is attached here

We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.

For informal enquiries about either role please contact: Dr Eunan ONeill email

Please specify your preference (CYP/Maternity or Wider Determinants) in your application or indicate if you wish to be considered for both roles.

Application Process

Please attach a supporting statement to your application you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstratewhy you are suitable against each of the points marked as Application on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here The application process.

Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted please contact if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.

Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.