The Service & Team:
Cornwall Council is launching a recruitment round for two Consultant in Public Health posts, each offering a unique and exciting opportunity to shape the health and wellbeing of our diverse communities across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We are looking for exceptional public health leaders with the credibility, experience and vision to drive system-wide improvement and reduce health inequalities.
These senior posts sit within the Wellbeing and Public Health Service and will play a critical role in delivering Cornwall’s ambition for a healthier, fairer and more sustainable future.
Cornwall offers a unique opportunity to combine meaningful professional impact with an exceptional quality of life. As the largest unitary authority in England, we face significant and varied public health challenges—from rural isolation to coastal deprivation, climate vulnerability and complex inequalities.
We are a forward-thinking Council committed to:
Our Integrated Care System is investing heavily in prevention and equity, with a strong partnership between the Council, NHS and voluntary sector.
The Roles:
As a senior member of the public health leadership team, you will:
Post 1: Consultant in Public Health – Children, Young People & Maternity
This role leads Cornwall’s Best Start in Life agenda, providing strategic leadership across:
You will work closely with the ICS, education, early years services, safeguarding partners, and communities to embed prevention, improve outcomes and ensure high-quality, equitable services for children and families.
Post 2: Consultant in Public Health – Wider Determinants, Housing, Planning & Healthy Weight
This role leads on the wider determinants of health, working across the Council and ICS to influence major system levers including:
You will be a senior advocate for health‑in‑all‑policies and a key leader in shaping a carbon‑neutral, equitable Cornwall.
This is a public/customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.
This position will be subject to a enhanced criminal record disclosure check.
Working Pattern:
Both roles are permanent, full-time positions, with a 37-hour working week.
What you’ll need to succeed:
We are seeking dynamic, collaborative and strategic public health consultants who can navigate complexity, influence at the highest level, and deliver measurable population health impact.
You must be:
Both roles are open to medical and non-medical public health specialists, in line with FPH guidance.
Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert
What you’ll get in return:
Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.
Our core employee rewards and benefits include:
· a competitive salary.
· a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
· a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
· A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
· Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.
Additional Information:
Cornwall Council is unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfer existing sponsorship for this role.
The full role profile is attached here
We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.
For informal enquiries about either role, please contact: Dr Eunan O’Neill email Eunan.ONeill@cornwall.gov.uk
Please specify your preference (CYP/Maternity or Wider Determinants) in your application, or indicate if you wish to be considered for both roles.
Application Process
Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process
Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact careers@cornwall.gov.uk if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.
Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.
Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year. Working here - Cornwall Council
We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options
Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender reassignment status, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.
Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It’s a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.
A unique Council that has secured the UK's first devolution deal for a rural County! We deliver services to more than half a million local people and to over five million visitors a year.
*Cornwall - The Place: http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/jobs-and-careers/work-and-volunteer-for-us/cornwall-the-place/
With its beautiful beaches, stunning countryside and superb community spirit, Cornwall is a great place to live.
*Cornwall - Our Offer: http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/jobs-and-careers/work-and-volunteer-for-us/our-offer/
With a competitive employee reward package that attracts, retains and motivates our employees; open plan working environments in most offices, good business systems and a can do culture where talented people thrive, Cornwall Council is a great place to work.
*Cornwall - Our Job of the Week: http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/joboftheweek
*Cornwall - What we do and how we work: http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/jobs-and-careers/work-and-volunteer-for-us/what-we-do-and-how-we-work/
Services: Care for the elderly, children’s safeguarding, libraries, road maintenance, fire and rescue service, recycling, parks, street cleaning, countryside management, social housing, town planning, tourism support and trading standards.
We deliver these services through our employees who work directly for the Council and through our many other Council owned companies and organisations; CORMAC, Cornwall Housing, Tempus Leisure, Newquay Airport and Cornwall Development Company.
We also have close links with Cornwall’s health organisations, colleges and universities and work closely with the police, town and parish councils and the voluntary sector.
*Cornwall - Council and Democracy: http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/
We have 123 elected councillors and as Cornwall is such a large rural area, our councillors and the towns and parishes they represent are grouped into 19 community networks, which are the focus of our local community work.
