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Description

Our local government clients are recruiting a Public Health Administrator. To provide adequate administrative support to the Public Health Directorate.

Your Key Responsibilities will include:

To ensure that customer service always remains a high priority, and to act as a point of contact for service through telephone, email, internet, or face-to-face enquiries, ensuring all queries are resolved or redirected as appropriate. To cover Reception and associated duties in respect of all visitors, including signing in/out and directing them to the proper venue.

Qualification – Essential

• GCSE Grade (or equivalent) in English Language and Mathematics.
li>NVQ2 or equivalent (including English and Mathematics)
• A certified qualification in computer literacy, such as ECDL, is desirable.
• Advanced –Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, Outlook, Social Media and CRM.

Qualifications, Knowledge, and Experience Requirements - Criteria to be Evaluated at the Shortlisting Stage.

< i>Demonstrable experience of providing Excellent Customer Service standards in a customer-facing Environment.
• Considerable experience working in an administrative role.
• Significant experience in office systems, including the production of correspondence and reports, filing, arranging and minuting meetings, dealing with incoming enquiries, diary management, and document copying & scanning, keeping records, setting up & using IT equipment.
• Considerable experience in setting up and managing administrative/financial systems.
• Has demonstrable expertise and experience in information technology (e.g. WORD, EXCEL) in an office environment.
• Experience in producing manual and computerised reports.
• Demonstrable experience of working in community settings, involving interface with the public.
• An understanding of local authority administrative procedures.
• Basic knowledge and understanding of health and safety legislation.
• Good communication skills, oral and written, are essential.
• The ability to convey and record information accurately is essential.
• Maintaining accurate records is essential.
• A methodical approach to working practices with the ability to work on one's own initiative.
• Experience in working to tight time-scales and deadlines.
• Awareness of the sensitive nature of work and the need for confidentiality.
• Ability to work regularly outside 'normal' office hours, including duties at weekends, some evenings, and on Bank Holidays if required.
• A willingness to undertake appropriate training.

Essential Compliance Requirements

• 3 Years References
• Standard DBS level is required
• A pre-engagement screening is mandatory for this role. Please be prepared for this additional step in the application process.

Diamond Blaque Group, a leading provider in the public sector, is acting as an employment agency for this vacancy. Our organisation is deeply committed to fostering an environment of equal opportunity and diversity in the workplace.  

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 Opportunities

We are supporting a West Midlands based Council with the recruitment of two senior interim Public Health Consultants.

Public Health Consultant – Life Course

Duration: 6-12 months (initially)

Rate: Negotiable (Inside IR35, umbrella)

Location: Hybrid with occasional on-site

The postholder will:

• Provide strategic leadership on a life course approach to improving health outcomes across diverse communities
• Lead outcomes-based commissioning of public health services, ensuring evaluation, equity audits, and continuous quality improvement
• Support the Director of Public Health in discharging statutory duties and advise across children’s and adults’ services
• Manage a staff team (c.8) and contribute to strategic partnerships across the Black Country and West Midlands

Essential Requirements:

• Public health specialist registration (GMC/GDC/UKPHR)
• Strong track record of leadership across commissioning, evaluation and partnership working
• Demonstrable experience delivering health improvement outcomes and tackling inequalities

Public Health Consultant – Health Inequalities

Duration: 6-12 months (initially)

Rate: Negotiable (Inside IR35, umbrella)

Location: Hybrid with occasional on-site

The postholder will:

• Provide system leadership on reducing health inequalities and embedding health in all policies across the Council
• Influence and deliver strategies on wider determinants of health, financial wellbeing, housing and active travel
• Work closely with corporate departments, NHS, VCSE and Combined Authority partners to empower communities and promote sustainable health improvement
• Manage staff and budgets while supporting the Council’s Improvement Plan and Health & Wellbeing Strategy

Essential Requirements:

• Public health specialist registration (GMC/GDC/UKPHR)
• In-depth knowledge of health inequalities and wider determinants of health
• Proven ability to lead system-wide programmes and engage stakeholders at a senior level

If you have the relevant experience, please apply today - we'd love to hear from you!