Senior Planner

**Senior Planner - Public Health**:
**Employer**: Medway Council

**Salary**: Range 6 - £44,246 - £50,076 per annum

**Location**: To be confirmed

**Contract**: To be confirmed

**Working Pattern**: Flexible Hours

**Hours**: 30.

**DBS Check**: No

**Closing Date**: 04/07/2025 at 23:55

**Reference**: REC/709/418/VR

Medway Public Health is looking for a highly motivated and dynamic Senior Planner for Public Health. We are looking for an individual who has experience of working in either planning policy or development management that wishes to broaden their knowledge and skills with regards to improving health and wellbeing and reducing health inequalities.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a forward thinking, innovative and inclusive organisation and public health team where you make an impact on residents lives. You will be part of the wider determinants team, who are well established and passionate about the work they deliver. They have extensive experience working collaboratively across sectors and organisations to create a common goal and achieve improved health outcomes.

The post holder will work within Public Health with a focus on healthy and sustainable places, with a good understanding of the strategic health needs for planning and development and consideration of impact of growth in Medway. It requires working closely with colleagues in the Planning teams, other council departments and external partners to input into the development and implementation of major policies.

The role will support work where there are opportunities to address the social determinants of health, deliver healthy place making, good design and promote health factors such as physical activity, social connectivity, and healthy lifestyles. The role will be responsible for helping to deliver health and wellbeing outcomes through sustainable development, spatial planning, transport planning and highways-related schemes and policies. In addition, a significant proportion of this role will include reviewing Health Impact Assessments to ensure health impacts and active environments are considered.
- The role is advertised as 30 hours, but other hours will be considered._
- Experience of collaborating to create new solutions to complex problems by promoting innovation and the sharing of ideas, practices, resources, leadership and learning.
- Ability to build and maintain supportive and empathetic relationships, securing people’s support and commitment to a course of action or different way of thinking by presenting ideas convincingly and persuasively, and to lead major negotiations.
- Communicate sometimes complex information and concepts (including health outcomes, inequalities and life expectancy) to a diverse range of audiences using different methods.
- Demonstrate independent working on planning projects, with evidence of your input on research and analysis, drawing conclusions and presenting recommendations; and project management skills.

Career Progression Frameworks (CPF) have been introduced for all roles at Medway Council. These frameworks provide a mechanism for employees to take ownership of their development within their post and be rewarded accordingly. This means that the salary you will be offered will be at level A unless, based on an assessment against the CPF criteria, you demonstrate that you are meeting the criteria of level B or C. There will be further opportunity once in post to progress from level A to B, and B to C.

**The person specification of a job profile is split into three levels**:
Level B details the developed competencies that an individual who is practised in this role would be able to demonstrate and will be a progression of knowledge, experience and skills from level A.

Level C requires the highest level of competence and applicants would need to fully meet and demonstrate all aspects of the job profile, including qualifications, knowledge, skills and experience.

**Important Information-**

**Applicants must be able to demonstrate all essential requirements as listed in the job profile**

**For further information, and for details of the benefits of working for Medway Council, please refer to the Medway information pack available as a download or to view online.**
- We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time prior to the closing date._
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