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Assistant Director: Prevention (Public Health Consultant)

The Health Foundation

Location: London, Hybrid/On-site
Salary: Up to £91,836 per annum, plus a pro rata premium to reflect public health consultant pay scale and excellent benefits.
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Placed On: 18th March 2025
Closes: 24th March 2025

Our Foundation

We are an independent charitable organisation working to build a healthier UK. Health is our most precious asset. Good health enables us to live happy, fulfilling lives, fuels our prosperity, and helps build a stronger society.

Yet good health remains out of reach for too many people in the UK and services are struggling to provide access to timely, high-quality care.

It doesn't have to be like this. Our mission is to help build a healthier UK by:

  1. Improving people's health and reducing inequalities
  2. Supporting radical innovation and improvement in health and care services
  3. Providing evidence and analysis to improve health and care policy.

About the role

A unique opportunity to lead an influential and leading- edge portfolio of work to position the Health Foundation as a leading voice on public health and prevention policy and practice in the UK. You will ensure the Foundation delivers a strong portfolio of in-house research, commissioned work and convening activities to ensure the Foundation makes relevant, timely and innovative contributions and commentary to UK prevention policy and practice. This includes work across local, regional and national government, as well as in the NHS and wider health and public health landscape.

  • Set an ambitious strategy for the Health Foundation’s prevention and public health agenda by engaging with new frontiers in public health and prevention, this may include areas such as the wider determinants of health, commercial determinants of health, risk factors for ill health, and personalised prevention including the role of technology, AI and genomics.
  • Maintain our position as a trusted voice on policy on risk factors including tobacco, obesity, and alcohol and develop our positions in light of external environment
  • Provide expert input to the Health Foundation’s understanding and influencing of the role of the NHS in prevention, including primary care and integrated care systems.
  • Provide professional advice to shape the Foundation’s work on analysis of health trends, ensuring the work delivers novel insights and producing expert commentary when required.
  • Provide motivating leadership to a team of public health professionals and multi-disciplinary colleagues from across the Foundation.

How to apply

*This role is facility approved, Applicants going through the portfolio registration routes (GMC or UKPHR) are not eligible to be shortlisted for interview until they are included on the register. The six-month rule does not apply to these portfolio route applicants.

You can find the job description for this role Here. Please click on the apply button within the advert to apply.

If you require any support through this process, please contact recruitment@health.org.uk Help us work together to make the recruitment process and potential future employment more accessible and enjoyable for you.

Interview date:  April 10, 2025

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