Job Introduction
Department of Adult Social Care - Public Health
Senior Public Health Specialist (Healthy Communities)
Post Reference: Band/Grade – Special A - £51,729 - £55,737
37 hours per week
Permanent
Based at Britannia House (TBC)
The Code of Practice on the English language requirement for public sector workers, Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 requires that Councils ensure that all candidates applying for customer facing posts must be assessed in order to establish their fluency in English.
The criteria under special knowledge and experience on the job profile which is shown in this advert outlines what level of fluency you will be expected to demonstrate. Therefore, it is essential that you provide examples in your application.
Bradford Council Public Health team are seeking to recruit a skilled, experienced and ambitious senior public health specialist in a leadership position in Children and Young People with a remit including;
-Public Health strategic lead for children’s public health
-Strategic lead for the Living Well schools programme- including School Nursing (0-19)
- Strategic lead for school aged children
-Internal investment lead for children’s
- Partnership across CYP partners in Council for school aged children
-Partnership working alongside ICB & Children’s Trust including the Early Help & Prevention strategy.
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 on 07815476754 on or email tim.howells@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: Friday 17th July 2026
Interview Date: Likely date - 4th August 2026 - Britannia House, Bradford, BD1 1HX – (will be confirmed following the closing date)
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 Monday 13th July
To book onto this webinar please email Claire.Priestman@bradford.gov.uk
