33 Healthcare Sector jobs in the United Kingdom

• Lead the architectural design process for healthcare projects from concept to completion.
• Develop innovative and functional design solutions that meet client needs and regulatory standards.
• Produce high-quality architectural drawings, specifications, and documentation.
• Manage project timelines, budgets, and resources effectively.
• Liaise with clients, stakeholders, and regulatory bodies to ensure project success.
• Oversee and mentor junior architectural staff.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams of engineers and consultants.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant building codes, standards, and health and safety regulations.
• Conduct site visits and inspections as necessary.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of healthcare design trends and technologies.

• Fully qualified Architect, registered with the ARB/RIBA.
• Significant proven experience in healthcare architecture, including hospital and clinic design.
• In-depth knowledge of relevant healthcare building regulations and standards.
• Proficiency in architectural design software, particularly Revit (mandatory), AutoCAD, and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Strong understanding of construction methods, materials, and building technologies.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and client management skills.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.
• Experience in project financial management.

• Lead the design process for healthcare projects, including hospitals, clinics, and research facilities, from initial brief to final handover.
• Develop conceptual designs, feasibility studies, and detailed architectural plans and specifications.
• Manage client relationships, ensuring clear communication and alignment with project goals and expectations.
• Coordinate with engineering consultants, contractors, and other stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant building regulations, planning policies, and healthcare specific standards (e.g., HTMs, HBNs).
• Lead and mentor a team of architectural staff, fostering a collaborative and high-performing work environment.
• Oversee project budgets and timelines, ensuring projects are delivered on schedule and within scope.
• Conduct site visits and quality assurance checks.
• Stay abreast of the latest architectural trends, innovative materials, and healthcare design best practices.
• Contribute to business development efforts and the acquisition of new healthcare projects.

• Fully qualified Architect with professional registration (ARB/RIBA).
• A minimum of 8 years of post-qualification experience in architecture, with a significant portfolio demonstrating expertise in healthcare design.
• Proven experience in leading architectural projects from inception to completion.
• In-depth knowledge of current UK building regulations and healthcare design standards.
• Proficiency in architectural design software, including AutoCAD, Revit, and other relevant BIM tools.
• Excellent leadership, team management, and client communication skills.
• Strong understanding of project management principles and contract administration.
• Ability to develop innovative and practical design solutions.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• A strategic thinker with a passion for creating high-quality, functional, and inspiring healthcare environments.

•   Previously worked as a Health professional or Care Manager/Supervisor

•    Strong knowledge of person-centred care planning and risk assessment.

•    Excellent understanding of CQC regulations and best practice in care provision.

•    Proficient with Patient Management systems and Microsoft Office.

•    Outstanding people skills with empathetic approach.

•    Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

•    Strong organisational and time-management abilities.

•    Full UK driving licence with access to own vehicle.

The Role:

This is a great opportunity to join our Public Health at Tameside MBC. Tameside is one of the ten boroughs in Greater Manchester and is a 10-minute train ride into Manchester City Centre. We work closely with the other nine local authorities and Public Health teams across Greater Manchester, which includes the GM Combined Authority, led by the GM Mayor Andy Burnham. There are some exciting GM-wide programmes which this role will have the direct opportunity to lead on such as the Live Well programme.

This role will provide strategic leadership both within Public Health as well as across the council and wider system, alongside the Director of Public Health, Assistant Director and the existing Public Health Consultant in the team. This role will provide strategic leadership as part of the Public Health Senior Team, and the Extended Leadership team of the council. You will work with partners to improve health outcomes across the population, as identified in the Tameside Corporate Plan and Health & Wellbeing Strategy. The role reports directly to the Director of Public Health.

It is an exciting time to join Tameside council with lots of positive improvements happening now to realise our vision that Tameside can be a place where everyone can achieve their hopes and ambitions. This role will be a key part of that exciting work, including delivering on Tameside’s Live Well programme and being closer to our residents across each of our nine towns to make sure we are delivering more of the right support in the right place, at the right time.

This role will provide advice, guidance, and strategic leadership in the Public Health team and across the organization and wider network of partners. This will include senior leadership around a range of agendas including health improvement (including strategic approaches to tackling tobacco harms, unhealthy weight and inactivity), working across the Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) sector, public health advice into the healthcare system (healthcare public health) and supporting the work across our neighbourhoods agenda (including delivering on the Live Well programme).

Our team is at the core of the exciting work happening in the borough and there are a wide range of areas that this role will have the scope to get involved with including tackling the wider determinants of health and across a range of local partner organisations. You will be working in a team with a broad range of skills and expertise and with an excellent reputation for collaboration and delivery across Tameside.

This is a senior leadership role, recognised across the organisation and the wider system. It will provide joint leadership across the Public Health team and the council as a whole. You will have good access to CPD opportunities to support your ongoing professional registration and there will be opportunities to explore areas of interest such as research and health protection and gaining wide experience of line management and educational supervision.

About You:

We are seeking an appropriately qualified public health professional with excellent problem solving, communication, political and technical skills who has the energy and drive to make a major contribution to improving health and reducing inequalities in Tameside. A particular interest in the wider determinants of health, health improvement and working with the voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise sector would be desirable.

The role requires a cross-council as well as multiagency partnership approach, and you will be expected to have strong relationship and partnership skills. A high level of intellectual rigour, political awareness, negotiation and motivation skills and flexibility are required as well as the ability to communicate effectively within diverse settings. Tact, diplomacy, and leadership is required and an ability to understand other cultures, advise, challenge and advocate to enable effective working across organisational boundaries and influencing without direct authority.

You will play a key role in developing the public health function more widely, as well as day to day operational activities of the Public Health team. Most importantly we are looking for someone who is passionate about making a difference to the lives of the residents we serve and to strive to shift outcomes for the better so that our residents have better futures.

About Us:

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling, and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose, and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.

Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm, and motivation to be the best they can be.

This position is subject to Basic Disclosure Procedures.

This is a politically restricted post.

Closing date: 20 October 2025.

Assessment date: Interviews week commencing 3rd November 2025.

Overview:

One of my local government clients is seeking a skilled and motivated Public Health Officer to join their Public Health Team on a temporarybasis. This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to the health and wellbeing of residents through innovative, evidence-based, and community-driven public health initiatives.

Key Areas of Work:

The role supports work across three core public health domains:

1. Health Improvement

• Deliver community-based programmes (e.g., smoking cessation, NHS Health Checks, physical activity).

• Tackle health inequalities by addressing wider determinants such as housing and environment.

• Promote healthy lifestyles through education and engagement initiatives.

2. Health Protection

• Support vaccination and screening programmes.

• Help manage and monitor responses to communicable diseases and environmental hazards.

• Contribute to emergency preparedness and response strategies.

3. Healthcare Public Health

• Work on the development of evidence-based care pathways.

• Support service improvement using health data and health economics insights.

• Assist with Joint Strategic Needs Assessments and healthcare commissioning.

Main Responsibilities:

• Manage a portfolio of public health contracts (e.g., drug and alcohol treatment, smoking cessation, sexual health, mental health).

• Support procurement and commissioning of services.

• Plan and deliver public health programmes aligned with local and national priorities.

• Work collaboratively across departments, agencies, and external partners.

• Promote integration of public health into broader strategies (e.g., housing, climate change, community safety).

Candidate Requirements:

• Relevant qualifications or demonstrable experience in Public Health or related discipline.

• Strong knowledge of public health systems, policy, and service delivery.

• Proven experience in managing public health programmes or contracts.

• Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and project management skills.

• Experience working in local government or NHS setting is desirable.

If interested in this role please send your CV to Lee-Jaun at Coyle Personnel Ltd.

Overview:

One of my local government clients is seeking a skilled and motivated Public Health Officer to join their Public Health Team on a temporarybasis. This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to the health and wellbeing of residents through innovative, evidence-based, and community-driven public health initiatives.

Key Areas of Work:

The role supports work across three core public health domains:

1. Health Improvement

• Deliver community-based programmes (e.g., smoking cessation, NHS Health Checks, physical activity).

• Tackle health inequalities by addressing wider determinants such as housing and environment.

• Promote healthy lifestyles through education and engagement initiatives.

2. Health Protection

• Support vaccination and screening programmes.

• Help manage and monitor responses to communicable diseases and environmental hazards.

• Contribute to emergency preparedness and response strategies.

3. Healthcare Public Health

• Work on the development of evidence-based care pathways.

• Support service improvement using health data and health economics insights.

• Assist with Joint Strategic Needs Assessments and healthcare commissioning.

Main Responsibilities:

• Manage a portfolio of public health contracts (e.g., drug and alcohol treatment, smoking cessation, sexual health, mental health).

• Support procurement and commissioning of services.

• Plan and deliver public health programmes aligned with local and national priorities.

• Work collaboratively across departments, agencies, and external partners.

• Promote integration of public health into broader strategies (e.g., housing, climate change, community safety).

Candidate Requirements:

• Relevant qualifications or demonstrable experience in Public Health or related discipline.

• Strong knowledge of public health systems, policy, and service delivery.

• Proven experience in managing public health programmes or contracts.

• Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and project management skills.

• Experience working in local government or NHS setting is desirable.

If interested in this role please send your CV to Lee-Jaun at Coyle Personnel Ltd.

Public Health Practitioner Apprentice (Level 6)

Scale 3: Starting salary £31,086 per annum incl LW

About Us:

It is an exciting time to join Lambeth Council, we have bold ambitions for the future of Lambeth’s communities and residents through our Lambeth 2030 Plan ‘Our Future, Our Lambeth’.  To deliver on these ambitions, we have embarked on our transformational One Lambeth Programme ensuring we are ‘connected by purpose,’ in everything we do to deliver excellence. We are proud to have recently developed a refreshed set of One Lambeth Values and Behaviours that were develop for staff by staff; Equity, Ambition, Kindness, and Accountability. For more information, please have a look at our dedicated One Lambeth Values and Behaviours page.  

About the Borough:

Located in the heart of South London, Lambeth Borough is a vibrant community of over 317,600 residents. Stretching from the dynamic neighbourhood of Streatham in the South to the iconic landmarks of Waterloo in the North, we are proud to be the 9th largest borough in London. Our diversity is our strength, with more than 130 languages spoken, making Lambeth the home of the Windrush generation, London's largest LGBTQ+ community, and a thriving Portuguese-speaking community. 

With exceptional schools, lush green spaces including Brockwell Park, cultural gems like the Black Cultural Archives, and world-renowned institutions such as St Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth offers an enriching and dynamic environment.

About the Team:

The Public Health team sits within the Council’s Integrated Health and Care directorate. The Public Health team is a dynamic and collaborative team covering a wide range of functions. These include health improvement, health protection, sexual health, children and young people, health intelligence, substance misuse and more. 

Public Health’s purpose is to improve and protect the health and wellbeing of Lambeth residents. We do this through the evidence-based decision commissioning of public health projects, programmes and services. Throughout our work, we have a core focus on addressing the wider determinants of health and tackling health inequalities.

The Apprentice will report to a Public Health Specialist but will work across the Public Health team and wider teams in the Council and/or health partners as appropriate.

About the Role:

If you’re interested in playing a part in improving the health and wellbeing of local communities whilst gaining qualifications to support the development of your public health career, then this is the role for you. 

Lambeth are offering an exciting new apprenticeship combining study alongside day-to-day working within the Public Health team as a Public Health Practitioner Apprentice (Level 6). The apprenticeship will lead to a degree qualification (Public Health BSc) as well as providing an opportunity for the candidate to pursue a career in Public Health. 

During the apprenticeship, the candidate will work in Lambeth Council’s Public Health team. In their time here they will gain experience of a range of Public Health functions, such as prevention of ill health, health surveillance and health protection whilst working with numerous teams. The candidate will support the planning, delivery, monitoring, evaluation, communication and engagement approaches to public health services, projects and programmes. Good communication, understanding data and the ability to engage with communities will be important skills to help achieve this. Across the three years in the Public Health team, the candidate will be supported to meet the learning objectives required for the Apprenticeship.

In addition, alongside working in Lambeth Council’s Public Health team, the successful candidate is responsible for undertaking and completing a BSc Public Health from a pre-selected university. At least one working day each week will be spent studying / attending university courses.

The successful candidate does not have to have existing experience of working in public health, or in local authorities. However, they should be able to demonstrate how their existing knowledge and experience can be applied to the role of PHP Apprentice.

We encourage applications from residents of Lambeth or from candidates living in surrounding boroughs to Lambeth as well as from candidates who are receiving or have received Lambeth leaving care services.

It is important to note: 

• Candidates with an existing undergraduate or Master’s degree qualification (Level 6) in the Public Health or similar subject may not be eligible for this opportunity due to UK Government Funding Apprenticeship rules. 
• Any offer of employment is conditional upon the candidate meeting the UK government entry requirements of apprenticeships and of the eligibility criteria of the training provider (the chosen University).
• The Apprentice must have a right to work in the UK and, if applicable, have an appropriate VISA that covers the entire period of the contract.
• This position is a fixed term contract. The contract will start in January 2026 . Depending on the training provider, the course will wither be 36 months or 36 months + 3 months for completion of the End Point Assessment. Applicants must be available for the full duration of the contract period.
• This role is only available to external candidates – existing Lambeth staff will not be eligible due to external funding criteria.

If you are interest in this role, then please follow our recruitment process outlined below.

To be considered for interview, your CV and supporting statement will clearly evidence:

• Your supporting statement must address the essential criteria in the person specification (these are marked A (tick)) as well as the Lambeth Core Values and Behaviours
• Your previous professional and academic experience, demonstrating that they meet the minimum educational requirements for the degree course.
• The knowledge and skills you can bring to the role of PHP Apprentice
• How you meet the requirements of the job description 
• That you are available for an early January 2026 start date and will, if successful, able to commit to the full duration of the apprenticeship and BSc Public Health qualification (36 months or 36 months + 3 months, depending on the training provider). 

For detailed qualifications and requirements, please review the job description and person specification in hyperlink below:

Job Description and Person specification

Successful candidates will be asked to apply for an Enhanced Certificate from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Further information about the DBS can be found at 

Contact Information:

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Megan Coe (Public Health Specialist) at

How to Apply:

If you're interest in this opportunity, click on the apply button and complete an online application. In your supporting statement, please clearly demonstrate how you meet the shortlist criteria marked with an 'A' at shortlist stage. 

We operate an anonymised application process, so be sure to remove personal details when uploading your CV or personal statement.

Recruitment Timelines:

Advert close date: 11:59pm on Sunday 19th October 2025

Shortlisting: w/c 20th October 2025

Interviews: w/c 3rd November 2025

Note that candidates will be required to share their at the time of the interview.

Benefits:

We believe in rewarding our staff. When you join us, you'll gain access to a range of benefits, including:

• Participation in our 5 Staff Networks: Black, Asian, and Multi-Ethnic, LGBTQ+, Disability, Young Professionals, and Women's.
• Generous annual leave entitlement starting from 27 days, increasing to up to 35 days depending on length of service.
• Membership in the Local Government Pension Scheme.
• Hybrid Working.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Occupational Sick Pay based on length of service.
• Discounts at local restaurants.
• Discount at our Active Lambeth Gyms.
• Learning and Development opportunities, including Apprenticeships.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Secure Bike Storage facilities at our Town Hall and Civic Centre.
• Trade Union Membership.

At Lambeth, we are dedicated to providing quality services and equal opportunities for all. We are committed to safer recruitment and are proud to be a Stonewall diversity champion, a Living Wage Employer, and to guarantee interviews for all disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria of the role. For a full list of our accreditations, please click here .