Job Description

About the role

The Senior Public Health Analyst will work collaboratively across Cambridgeshire County Council and with local, regional and national partners in health and social care to ensure that excellent intelligence underpins the delivery of public health and health and wellbeing outcomes across the local system.



The role will sit within Cambridgeshire County Council's newly formed Policy, Performance & Intelligence Team. A team of 50 individuals who provide data, analysis insight and policy expertise to support the operational management and strategic planning of services.



We are a family-friendly employer and will be happy to negotiate on working arrangements to achieve a good work / life balance. The role is currently available on a permanent basis with the option of flexibility from full-time to a minimum 30 hours per week, with a provision for home working.



Please refer to the person specification when completing your supporting statement, as applications will be shortlisted against the required experience, knowledge, and skills.



Interviews will be in person and held on 17th and 18th November.

For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact

Harriet North, Interim Public Health Intelligence Team Lead, at Harriet.North@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

What will you be doing?

As a Senior Public Health Analyst you will:


Work collaboratively with intelligence colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council, locally and regionally, to provide population health intelligence to influence and support wider system approaches to health and wellbeing outcomes.


Think innovatively and creatively to promote and deliver an epidemiological and population approach that influences the local system to improve health outcomes, especially around health outcomes in children and young people


Contribute to population health management using data on both health and wider determinants of health.


Monitor and describe the health status of the local population through the analysis, interpretation and presentation of a range of information from numerous sources.


Work collaboratively with wider system partners to scope and investigate health inequalities using robust epidemiological approaches.


Deliver analysis of health data as part of the statutory healthcare public health advice service to the NHS and for joint commissioning between Cambridgeshire County Council and the NHS.


Support the Council's statutory duties related to Public Health, through expert public health analytical input to enable the protection and improvement of the health of Cambridgeshire's population, including the identification of health inequalities.


You will report to the Public Health Intelligence Team Lead.




About you

We're looking for an individual with advanced knowledge, skills and experience of working with linked patient level data (health, social care and wider determinants datasets), and an understanding of the health and care system and public health's role within it.


You will bring the skills to undertake analytical work yourself and quality assure the work of others. A good understanding of information governance is also essential.


The role sits within a small but skilled group of Analysts, some of whom are new to working in health intelligence, so we're looking for someone with the enthusiasm for mutual knowledge sharing and collaborative working. You must be skilled at managing a portfolio of analytical projects running simultaneously and matrix working.




About us

Cambridgeshire 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.


Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.


We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don't meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don't be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.


Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.


We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.


Visit 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.


https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers


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.