Strategic Lead - Public Health

Job Description

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, Leicestershire, LE3 8RA

Salary: £55,443 - £61,116 per annum (Pro rata for part time)

Working Hours: Full Time 37 hours

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: Friday 10th April 2026

Interview Date(s): TBC

The older age population of Leicestershire is increasing significantly but healthy life expectancy has stalled, particularly for women. Frailty in older age is one of our most pressing health and care issues. Our ambition is to increase the time our residents spend in good health and to achieve this, we need to take a whole systems approach to healthy ageing. This means working across health, social care and community partners, and the public, to design age-friendly services and develop age-friendly policies.

About the Role

This role will be pivotal in develop our healthy ageing strategy and implementation plan for Leicestershire. Adopting the WHO Age Friendly Communities approach, the role holder will develop a departmental healthy ageing toolkit to support age-friendly commissioning and policy development across Public Health services and wider Council, work with health and social care partners, Corporate Services and academic partners to realise opportunities presented through smarter use of data for prevention and early intervention and establish mechanisms to ensure that the voice of older residents is front and centre.

About You

To apply for this post, you must:

• Be passionate about health ageing, social justice and reducing age-related discrimination and inequality
• Hold a professional qualification at Masters level or above relevant to Public Health
• Have Comprehensive experience of developing, facilitating and leading partnership working to ensure an integrated and connected approach across departments and organisations.
• Have experience of developing and implementing strategy in a complex, multi-professional and multi-organisational environment
• Be able to identify, assess and monitor the health needs of the local population and devising programmes to address needs based on evidence.
• Have excellent knowledge of partnership agencies in statutory, voluntary and independent sectors and the services they provide
• Knowledge of Service improvement, service redesign and change management tools and techniques
• Have in-depth communication skills at management level, with strong negotiating and influencing skills and the ability to develop relationships with a wide range of people and organisations

In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and to delivering accessible and inclusive services which meet the needs of all of our residents. You will be asked to demonstrate your understanding of these commitments as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability. We are a Disability Confident Employer.

Interested in Flexible Working?

We are open to discussions about flexible working, which may include part time working, job sharing, term-time working, flexible start and finish times, and hybrid working, depending on the requirements of the role and the service. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Professor Elizabeth Orton

Consultant in Public Health

Tel: 07812792549

Elizabeth.orton@nottingham.ac.uk

How to Apply

At Leicestershire County Council we’re looking for top talent from all walks of life. Whoever you are, wherever you’re from, and whatever your background - we care about what you bring to our organisation, not just what’s on your CV. That’s why we’ve designed a recruitment process that’s fair, accessible, and focused on potential. And with benefits that support people at every age and stage of life, we make sure you can thrive - both personally and professionally.

If you share our passion to make a difference for the people of Leicestershire, we’d love to hear from you. Click the apply button to submit your application, ensuring that you upload a supporting statement that explains how you meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above. This should explain how you meet the criteria outlined in the ‘About You’ section above and include relevant examples to demonstrate your experience. Without this information, we won’t be able to assess your suitability for the role, and your application will be rejected. For tips on how to write your statement, see the How to Apply section on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.org.uk/support.

By applying for this post, you agree to our Terms and Conditions.

About us

About Leicestershire County Council

At Leicestershire County Council, we're committed to making a real difference in people's lives. Our aim is to work with communities and partners to deliver public services that make Leicestershire the best possible place to live and work for everyone.

Our employees play a key role in supporting this goal and helping us deliver the vital services we provide to the people of Leicestershire. Whether you're starting your career or looking for your next challenge, you'll find a place with us where your ideas are valued, and your work has purpose.

For further information on what it’s like to work for us and the benefits we offer, please refer to the following:

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