# Public Health Officer

**Company**: London Borough of Lewisham
**Location**: London Borough of Lewisham, Greater London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: GBP 50,778 - 52,920 per year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Discover yourself in Lewisham where what you do makes a difference to our vibrant and culturally diverse communities!

We have a rich history of welcoming people from all over the world and are proud to be recognised as the UK’s first Borough of Sanctuary, for our work in championing the rights of refugees and migrants.

**Introduction** Are you passionate about babies, children and young people’s health? Do you have the skills and knowledge needed to support our work improving the health and wellbeing and reducing the health inequalities experienced by babies, children and young people?

**What’s the role?** You will manage and coordinate key public health offers for babies, children and young people including our Universal Vitamin D Scheme and oral health interventions in early years. You will support the administration of the National Child Measurement Programme. You will analyse, interpret and present quantitative and qualitative public health data to inform policy and practice. You will maintain the Health & Wellbeing pages on the Lewisham Services for Schools website, including developing new resources where needed. You will also support a wide range of other work relevant to Lewisham’s babies, children and young people. This may include the Food Justice Action Plan and the Good Food Lewisham programme; our enhanced Relationships, Sex and Health Education offer to Lewisham schools; Lewisham’s Best Start in Life Local Plan.

**What’s in it for you?** Excellent training and development opportunities, plus a range of benefits including:

- Generous holiday allowance

- Local Government Pension scheme

- Flexible working and family friendly policies

- Season ticket and bicycle loans

- A range of staff discounts including local subsidised gym memberships

- Supportive staff networks

- Discretionary study budget

**What we’re looking for** We are looking for someone with strong data and project management experience and good public health knowledge to work closely with our team and wider stakeholders.

You will be able to take responsibility for management and coordination of established programmes. You will be confident with routine analysis, interpretation and presentation of public health data, and will be supported to develop your skills further if appropriate. You will have a strong commitment to public health values and Lewisham’s anti-racist agenda, recognising that health inequalities are often the result of wider social and economic inequalities.

**Location** The job is primarily based in Laurence House, SE6 4RU, but we operate a hybrid approach where you will be required to work both in the office and from home on a regular basis.

**Special conditions**

- Degree or the equivalent

- Recognised qualification in public health, child health or data analysis or relevant experience

- The job is subject to an enhanced DBS check

- The recruitment process is anonymous and we don’t accept CVs.

## Skills

### Required
- public health
- data analysis
- project management
- child health

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