Consultant in Public Health

Job summary

We have an exciting vacancy in the Public Health Team as a Consultant. For more information please see the below.

Main duties of the job

About us

We have a wide range of great benefits if you join us as a colleague at Cambridgeshire County Council. To find out more please see below.

Details

• Date posted: 07 August 2026
• Pay scheme: Other
• Salary: £112,782 to £129,783 a year
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: VP5E00BB51
• Job locations: Huntingdon, PE28 4YE, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

This is an opportunity for an ambitious and forward-thinking consultant in public health

to join our Public Health Team. There are great opportunities to make a difference to

the population of Cambridgeshire, with opportunities to shape the portfolio of work and build our strategic direction.

Interviews will be held on 25th September.

For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact Sally

Cartwright, Director of Public Health atSallyE.Cartwright@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of a Basic Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.

What will you be doing?

You will have strategic leadership on sexual and reproductive health, maternity, children and young people, and health protection.

For further information please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

About you

Public health consultants work as system leaders at strategic or senior management level or at a senior level of expertise such as epidemiology or health protection.

Your combination of leadership and managerial skills together with your high level of technical skills and knowledge gives you a unique skill set essential for improving the health and wellbeing of our populations.

You must be qualified as a public health specialist and be on the GMC, GDC or UKPHR specialist register.

We are looking for someone who is ambitious, a strategic thinker and strong system leader.

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you dont meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please dont be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers