We will focus on: Giving our children and young people the best start in life
West Sussex County Council provides services to more than 850,000 residents every day and has pledged to change the way it works, do more, embrace its communities and be ambitious.
The West Sussex Plan sets out how the County Council plans to shape its services for the next five years.
The Public Health Directorate works together to improve the health and wellbeing of the population of West Sussex, covering areas across the life course including starting well, living and working well, ageing well and dying well, mental health, health protection and reducing health inequalities.
You should have an excellent understanding of the policy and commissioning context in public health, and an awareness of health inequalities in areas such as West Sussex.
West Sussex County Council Public Health (WSCC PH) will be receiving approximately £1.075 million for 2024/25, ring-fenced for smoking cessation.
The government has announced new funding to support current smokers to quit smoking, with £70 million additional funding per year for local authority-led stop smoking services (SSS) and support.
Although the exact amount for each subsequent year is yet to be determined, this funding is expected to continue until 2028/29.
The post is based in the Public Health Programmes Directorate of UKHSA, working between the Immunisation & Vaccine Preventable Diseases Division and the COVID Vaccines and Epidemiology Division.
We are excited to offer an opening for an epidemiologist / public health surveillance scientist to work on high profile areas of infectious disease surveillance.
The post holder will be a core member of the SARI (Severe Acute Respiratory Infection) Watch team monitoring hospitalisation for COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and be the epidemiologist responsible for serosurveillance of COVID-19 and other vaccine preventable diseases, including the coordination of data collection, analysis and reporting of population SARS-CoV-2 immunity.
With the exciting expansion of our Randox Health clinic network we are currently looking to recruit a phlebotomist based in Kent Bluewater.
With this exciting expansion of our clinic network, we are currently looking to recruit a phlebotomist based in Bluewater, to drive this innovative venture.
Randox Health are delighted to announce our new retail partnership with industry giants John Lewis & Partners.