Public Health Consultant/London

Role: Public Health Consultant

Duration: up to 6 months - full time/4 days

Location: London

Rate: £500-£600pd

A Local Government organisation has an excellent opportunity for a Public Health Consultant to work with the Director of Public Health to provide leadership and strategic direction for the council to save lives, improve and protect health and well being, and reduce health inequalities by identifying needs and priorities and commissioning, managing and evaluating services.

Key areas of experience for this role include:

* Responsibility for the development, implementation and delivery of strategic plans, programmes and policies focused on improving and protecting the health and well being and reducing health inequalities

* Develop and utilise information and intelligence systems to underpin public health action across disciplines, Council departments and organisations, leading the collation, interpretation and dissemination of relevant data and information

* To lead on public health research, commission research audits/projects, and undertake research or audit and make links with wider academic departments.

* To represent the Council on public health at meetings & public forums involving key stakeholders

* Providing expert public health advice and leadership to support and inform an evidence-based approach within ethical frameworks for developing high quality, equitable health and social care services and programmes, across primary, secondary and social care, and across sectors including local government, the NHS, the community and voluntary sectors

This is an immediate requirement with interviews arranged so please forward your CV and contact details ASAP for consideration to Ffion at isl (see below) or call for more information