Job Introduction
Bradford Council Public Health team are seeking to recruit a skilled, experienced and ambitious Public Health specialist in a leadership position in health improvement with a remit including;
- Food Systems and Eating Well (Good Food Strategy)
- Physical Activity (Every Move Counts Strategy)
- Healthy Settings – Including early years, schools and workplaces
- Community health development
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in staff/team management, complex system working, strategy development, and working in ambiguity.
The ideal candidate will have a range of experiences in the application of public health skills and strategic thinking and be adept at transforming vision and strategy into practical outputs. An ability to work flexibly on a dynamic and emergent programmes of work will be key to this remit as well as experience of building strong relationships with a diverse range partners from across the system.
Public Health is part of a Health and Wellbeing Department that includes Adult Social Care and Environmental Health. Bradford Council is large unitary authority with an excellent reputation. The district provides an interesting and challenging environment for Public Health work, having a wide inequality in life expectancy and a legacy of strong partnership working across health, social care and VCS partners.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion is at the heart of what we do as a Council and the people we support. We have a number of self-directed Staff Networks (Disability, LGBTQ+, Race Equality, Women’s Voice, Working Carers and Young Persons) which assist in providing a voice and support mechanism to colleagues but we are always looking to further our ambition and commitment to achieving and supporting an inclusive workforce. One such example is enabling more direct ways of support amongst staff through the RESPECT Allyship Programme
The RESPECT Allyship Programme offers the opportunity to all staff to learn more about the diverse communities & groups, and provides additional benefits and resources to its members. This is part of the RESPECT Campaign, which is the Council’s Internal Equalities Vision for staff and its ambition to build a truly inclusive workforce, where everyone can be their true selves at work and people are and feel represented across all levels in the organisation. An Ally is someone who will speak up for others and champion their corner when they need it most.
As a Bradford employee we actively encourage employees to attend as many training events as possible hosted by the RESPECT programme on matters of EDI in order to support, champion & educate themselves and any colleague who may belong to a different group or community.
CONTACT DETAILS
For further information regarding this post please contact Tim Howells by emailing tim.howells@bradford.gov.uk or Matt Orne by emailing Matt.orne@bradford.gov.uk
An enhanced disclosure check with the Disclosure and Barring Service will be undertaken for this post.
As this post is suitable for a secondment, interested applicants need to have secured the secondment agreement with their manager prior to the application.
Closing Date: Monday 5th January 2026
Interview Date: 28th January 2026 - Britannia House, Bradford, BD1 1HX
Job information webinar
We will be running an open job information webinar online for you to learn more about the post, working in the public health team at Bradford council and to answer any questions that you may have about the role or application process.
This will be held at 12pm on Friday 19th December 2025.
To book onto this webinar please email tim.howells@bradford.gov.uk
