Help shape a fairer, healthier Sheffield.

At Sheffield City Council, we’re ambitious about tackling inequality and improving health outcomes for our residents. The Public Health Service is recruiting to two Health Improvement Officer roles; one will be based in our Health, Care and Communities Team and the other in our Children and Young People’s Team.

As a Health Improvement Officer, you will join a team focused on prevention, inequalities and partnership, applying evidence, creativity and systems thinking to address some of the most complex challenges facing our city.

These roles sit right at the heart of Sheffield’s commitment to fairness, inclusion and prevention and will support the Public Health Service in delivering its vision that ‘Everyone in Sheffield lives their healthiest life.’

About the roles

As a Health Improvement Officer Health, Care and Communities Team

You will:

Contribute to the development and delivery of work on public mental health including improving mental wellbeing, suicide prevention and addressing gambling harms.

Contribute to the development and delivery of work within Healthcare Public Health including supporting the commissioning of mandated public health programmes; and using a creative health and life course approach to improve health outcomes and reduce inequalities
Support both whole population interventions and targeted action focused on groups experiencing the poorest health outcomes
Contribute to needs assessments, strategies and the delivery of action plans
Use data, evidence and intelligence to inform priorities, design interventions, track progress and demonstrate impact

Across both areas, you’ll work collaboratively with colleagues across public health, the wider council, the NHS, voluntary and community sector organisations, and other partners — helping to turn shared ambition into coordinated action.

As a Health Improvement Officer- Children and Young People’s Team

you will:

Contribute to the development and delivery of work focused on Children and Young People’s public health including; giving every child the Best Start in Life (Healthy Babies Programme), delivery of our local SEND strategy ‘shaped by what’s around us’, implementation of the Fair and Healthy Sheffield plan and supporting the development of work with the early years and education sector.
Support both whole population interventions and targeted action focused on children, young people and families experiencing the poorest health outcomes
Help contribute to needs assessments, strategies and the delivery of action plans. Supporting delivery of our Young People’s Insight Survey.
With support use data, evidence and intelligence to inform priorities, design interventions, track progress and demonstrate impact
Work with colleagues across the council and partner organisations (including Sheffield Children’s Foundation Trust, VCF partners and Learn Sheffield) to provide public health capacity and skills into children and young people’s programmes and practice.

The Children & Young People’s Public Health team works closely with Children’s Services in the Council and across the city. Our work aims for every child to belong in a loving family, a good quality home, in their local school where they feel they belong, thrive and attain, in their local community where they are valued and respected and a member of the City of Sheffield where their voice is heard and they can see the impact of their voice on decisions.

Why join Sheffield?

The chance to work on bold, city-wide public health priorities that genuinely matter to people’s lives
A supportive, skilled and values-driven public health team
Opportunities to develop and deepen expertise in Children and Young Peoples health, Public mental health; and Healthcare Public Health
Flexible and hybrid working arrangements that support wellbeing and work–life balance
The opportunity to help shape a city that is fairer, healthier and more inclusive for everyone

Our commitment to equality

Sheffield City Council is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and particularly encourage applications from people and communities who are under-represented in public health and local government.

What we are looking for

To be considered for shortlisting, your application must clearly demonstrate that you have the skills and experience as set out in the person specification for this role.

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

Under the Guaranteed Interview scheme, applicants who are disabled, care leavers, or armed forces veterans will be guaranteed an interview if they meet the essential criteria and indicate their eligibility on the application form.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all individuals, ensuring a safe and supportive environment for everyone and where appropriate to the role the successful applicant will be required to undertake relevant safeguarding checks.

Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Find out more on our Sheff news page.