The role
The Public Health Division is recruiting x2 Public Health Intelligence Analyst posts to support our ambitious work on Knowledge & Intelligence.
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a successful, established and well-resourced team delivering on some of the most exciting cutting edge public health interventions in a world class city. Delivering on your responsibilities will require working in a fast paced and challenging environment, being held to account for delivery, a strong commitment to tackling health inequalities and a high degree of personal resilience.
We are looking for an individual with excellent public health skills and experience, keen to develop their career in Public Health Intelligence.
You will be an integral part of the Public Health Knowledge & Intelligence function, working alongside fellow colleagues to deliver high quality work that aims to increase our understanding of health inequalities. You will support and often lead on core pieces of work, including the delivery of major public health reports, whilst also reporting on commissioned services across our public health programme areas.
Your programme areas will include data and analytics, improving the monitoring of health outcomes and inequalities, along with service and programme evaluation. Although you will be based within the Public Health Division, you will need to liaise with council and local NHS colleagues to help deliver upon overlapping health & wellbeing priorities.
About you:
You must possess expert core public health competencies including epidemiology, needs assessment, evaluation, using evidence to inform decision making, and strong partnership skills. Excellent communication including presentation and high standards of written skills will be essential. You will have experience of using basic analytical applications such as MS Excel, whilst also evidencing use more advanced applications such as PowerBI, R, and Stata.
About Southwark:
We are the largest local authority social landlord in London, managing 55,000 homes lived in by 40% of Southwark’s residents. We are home to over 18,300 businesses including iconic London venues and social enterprises and we have a young, diverse and growing population.
At Southwark we are committed to making our borough just and fair and are taking positive action to tackle inequalities. Our residents and communities are our greatest asset and the passion we have for Southwark is shared by millions of Londoners who enjoy our outstanding cultural offer, use our hospitals and attend our universities. Our refreshed borough plan and focus on Southwark Stands Together, (which is our work with Southwark’s communities and the council’s staff to tackle racism, injustice and inequality) underpins all that we do.
Additional details
Please note a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check is required at basic level.
Benefits and more information:
In your role, we want you to feel supported, challenged and rewarded. You will benefit from our family-friendly policies including flexible working, home working, and a local government pension scheme, plus many other staff benefits. You will join a motivated, driven and supportive team that strives for excellence and values its members. You will also be part of a successful and high-achieving development team that is making a real difference to the lives of residents in the borough. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.
Guaranteed Interview Scheme:
As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:
• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
• Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
Recruitment timetable
Closing date: Sunday 31st March 2024 at 23:59
Interview panel (in-person): Tuesday 16th April 2024
SWCHTF
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
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