Public Health Careers Weekly | Edition 010
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🌟 Opportunity of the Week
Public Health Trainer
Blackpool Council £39,481 to £42,123 | Permanent Closing: 16 September 2026
This role combines public health workforce development with hands-on experience across training, health improvement, population health analysis and programme evaluation.
Why it matters: It is unusually broad and offers the chance to build practical experience across several core public health competencies rather than specialising immediately.
💼 Featured Opportunities
Health Improvement Officer, Partnerships & Inequalities
London Borough of Harrow £42,414 to £45,357 | 2-year fixed term Closing: 13 September 2026
Work across health inequalities, substance misuse, tobacco control, needs assessment, evaluation and partnership programmes.
Why it matters: A strong generalist public health role with opportunities to develop both analytical and programme-delivery experience.
Public Health Practitioner (Advanced), Mental Health and Suicide Prevention
Buckinghamshire Council £51,081 to £53,571 | Permanent Closing: 10 September 2026
Develop and deliver prevention programmes across public mental health and suicide prevention. The council accepts either relevant postgraduate qualifications or at least three years’ related experience and supports practitioner registration.
Why it matters: A useful mid-career opportunity showing a clear practitioner progression route within local-authority public health.
Research Assistant or Associate in Environmental Epidemiology
Imperial College London £45,399 to £59,484 | Full-time | Fixed term Closing: 27 September 2026
Join the School of Public Health to investigate the health effects of environmental endocrine-disrupting chemicals, including systematic review and epidemiological evidence synthesis.
Why it matters: A specialist opportunity at the intersection of epidemiology, environmental health and evidence synthesis.
📰 This Week in Public Health
Scotland updates its alcohol harms data
Public Health Scotland published an updated Alcohol Consumption and Harms Dashboard on 1 September.
Why it matters: It brings alcohol consumption and harm indicators together to support surveillance, policy and inequalities work.
Explore the updated dashboard
England expands RSV vaccination
From 1 September, adults aged 65 to 74 with specified chronic respiratory conditions or immunosuppression became eligible for RSV vaccination in England.
Why it matters: Another significant expansion of prevention activity, with implications for programme delivery, surveillance and vaccine uptake.
🎓 Learning Opportunity
Commercial Determinants of Health
The Faculty of Public Health and Local Government Association are running an online session on 10 Septemberexploring how commercial activity affects health and health inequalities and what local authorities can do in response.
Why it matters: Commercial determinants are increasingly important for understanding how factors outside healthcare shape population health.
View the session and register
💡 Career Insight
Local government remains one of the broadest public health career routes
Three of this week’s four vacancies sit within councils and cover workforce development, inequalities, mental health, tobacco, substance misuse and evaluation.
If your searches focus mainly on NHS vacancies, you may be missing a substantial part of the public health job market.
✍️ Application Tip
Put the result in your example
Do not finish an application example with what you did.
Finish with what changed because you did it.
A result could be improved uptake, a completed project, better data quality, a new process, stakeholder agreement or a recommendation that informed a decision.
The panel needs evidence of your contribution and its impact.
🧰 PHCH Resource of the Week
Public Health Career Toolkits
Building your evidence for public health applications?
PHCH Career Toolkits are designed to help you understand what employers are looking for and present your experience more clearly.
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