Healthy Schools Advisor

About the role

We are looking for a Healthy Schools Advisor to join the Public Health team in North Northamptonshire Council. This role provides a rare opportunity to become part of the highly ambitious Healthy Schools team and help develop a service which aims to:

• Improve health and wellbeing of whole school communities
• Empower schools to identify, understand and address health priorities within their setting
• Promote a holistic approach to health and wellbeing, with a focus on prevention and early intervention
• Build strong and trusted partnerships with a wide range of organisations
• Provide the best possible service to our customers.

The ideal candidate will be an excellent communicator and team player, with the ability to work collaboratively across a network of educational settings, healthcare providers, local authorities and third sector organisations. They will have a good understanding of health promotion in schools to improve quality, share good practice and deliver an outstanding school health offer that makes a positive difference to children, families and the communities they live in.

In-person interviews are expected to be held in Kettering on Monday 26th January 2026.

If you wish to arrange an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Laura.Ielapi@northnorthants.gov.uk

What will you be doing?

As a Healthy Schools Advisor, you’ll work closely with schools and education settings to champion health and wellbeing for children and young people. You’ll recruit and guide schools towards recognised standards, empower staff to deliver high-quality PSHE and wellbeing education, and design innovative training and resources. Your role involves building strong partnerships with educators, parents, and local organisations, sharing best practice and data insights, and supporting schools through assessment frameworks. You’ll lead on action planning, contribute to strategic reporting, and help reduce health inequalities by focusing on priority areas. This is a varied role combining partnership working with proactive, evidence-based solutions that make a real impact on resilience and healthy lifestyles.

About you

Education, Qualifications and Training

Essential Criteria

A Level or equivalent qualification within Health & Wellbeing, Education or Community Development-related field

Desirable Criteria

An Education-specific related qualification e.g. PGCE.

Experience and Knowledge

Essential Criteria

Professional experience of working within education settings.

Sound understanding of children and young people’s health and wellbeing.

Knowledge of the principles of project planning and implementation.

Involvement in Health & Wellbeing development work.

Experience of communicating with a diverse range of stakeholders, including children, parents and community members.

Familiarity with data collection and interpreting data analysis.

History of delivering online and in-person training and presentations.

Knowledge and understanding of key guidance and good practice around health and wellbeing, including PSHE and RSHE.

Ability and Skills

Essential Criteria

Fluent in English.

Holds a Full UK Driving Licence (unless registered disabled).

Takes personal accountability for own development.

Evidence of working successfully in partnership across different sectors, building and maintaining good working relationships.

Able to produce long term plans with clear outcomes and to monitor and evaluate their effectiveness.

Can effectively manage specific areas of a project/event.

Capable of working on own initiative and as part of a team.

Able to prioritise workload and meet deadlines as required.

Demonstrates confidence and ability to put forward innovative ideas for change.

Ability to be creative, to be able to identify problems and work to create solutions.

Equal Opportunities

Essential Criteria

Ability to demonstrate awareness/understanding of equal opportunities and other people’s behaviour, physical, social and welfare needs

Additional Factors

Essential Criteria

Commitment to equality of access and inclusiveness of activities and awareness of equal opportunity issues

Flexibility in organising work and time including managing/evening/ weekend work

Ability to meet objectives on own initiatives

Our Benefits

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!

Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About us

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

Disability Confident Employer

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council

Armed Forces Community

The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)