Infant Feeding Strategy Facilitator

Kent County Council is looking to recruit an Infant Feeding Strategy Facilitator to join our thriving public health team for a 2 year fixed term contract role (full-time and hybrid working).

You will need to be an experienced and skilled public health leader with demonstrable experience of working across system boundaries and organisations.

As a strategy facilitator, you will be supporting family hubs activity. You will have a keen interest and enthusiasm for improving the health of the population, a proven track record in delivering public health projects and programmes, demonstrable partnership working, and the ability to embed strategy, policy and guidance to a high standard. The role will be to ensure delivery of actions identified with Infant feeding strategies and report progress.

You will be skilled in facilitating, supporting, monitoring and evaluating to inform activity.

You will have the ability to prioritise competing demands and objectives, coupled with diplomacy and a working knowledge of the start for life and family hub programme.

This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

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KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note - if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.