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Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Fixed Term for 12 months due to backfilling secondment

We're looking to recruit an experienced Public Health practitioner, with knowledge of procurement and managing projects, for a 12-month fixed term Project Manager Post in Public Health.

Mental health is a public health issue. No other health condition matches mental illness in the combined extent of prevalence, persistence and breadth of impact. The key purpose of the Project Manager is to contribute to the promotion of positive mental health and wellbeing in Leicester through the development and implementation of specific public mental health initiatives.

Addressing inequality in health is an is important to the local authority, and social and economic inequality is a major determinant of mental illness which underlies other risk factors.

We will consider this vacancy on a secondment basis for Leicester City Council employees. If you wish to apply for this post on a secondment basis then please make your line manager aware before applying.

As a Project Manager you'll be part of a team focussing on prevention of mental illness and promotion of mental health across the life course in Leicester. Improving mental health helps to reduce inequalities, improve physical health, reduce health-risk behaviour, increase life expectancy, social functioning and quality of life. The benefits of protecting and promoting mental health are felt across generations.

You'll be working Monday to Friday, 37 hours per week full time hybrid working, including at City Hall, Charles Street Leicester. A typical day will be working with the Mental Health and the wider Public Health teams. Other contacts will include community organisations ,service providers, officers in procurement, legal affairs and finance. You'll be expected to contribute business cases, solve problems concerning different aspects of commissioning and project delivery.

What we can offer you

As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You'll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. We'll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from a number of flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.

Join us

We're committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That's why we've designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We'll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the 'our approach to recruitment' page.

For more information, please email Mark Wheatley at mark.wheatley@leicester.gov.uk or call 0116 4542037.

Interviews / Assessments will take place on the 4th and 5th of August