Public Health Officer – Lead for Mental Health, Suicide Prevention & Communities

Job description

Contract Terms

Starting salary: PO5, (50,574 – £47,732)
Hours per week: 36 hours per week, Hybrid Working
Contract type: FTC, 2 Years
Closing date: Sunday 20th July 2025

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the Role

Are you passionate about improving mental health and well-being across communities? Do you have experience leading public health initiatives and working with key partners to reduce health inequalities? Haringey Council is seeking a dedicated Public Health Officer to lead on mental health, suicide prevention, and community engagement. This is an exciting opportunity for a strategic thinker to drive impactful programmes that support mental health and well-being for people of all ages.

This role will focus on:

– Lead suicide prevention efforts, working closely with Haringey’s Suicide Prevention Group and regional partners.
– Coordinate public health responses to suicide clusters when required.
– Commission mental health programmes, ensuring evidence-based service delivery.
– Collaborate with local research institutes, the integrated care board, and North Central London partners to develop and implement diverse mental health programmes.
– Develop communication campaigns that promote mental health awareness and suicide prevention.
– Support wider public health initiatives, including violence prevention and community engagement.

About the Team

Haringey Council’s Public Health team and become part of a dedicated group committed to building a healthier, safer, and more resilient future for our residents. We are passionate about making a tangible difference in people’s lives by tackling health inequalities, supporting our diverse communities, and delivering impactful public health programs. Here, your work as a Public Health Officer in Mental Health will directly shape policies and initiatives that have a lasting positive effect, contributing to a meaningful and healthier future for everyone in Haringey.

About You

We’re looking for a motivated and experienced public health professional with:

– At least three years’ experience in community mental health and well-being, public health, or adult social care.
– A strong background in mental health and suicide prevention.
– Experience in public health programme leadership and commissioning, including knowledge of the commissioning process.
– A good understanding of complex mental health needs, common mental health disorders, and factors influencing intervention success.
– Excellent collaboration skills, with experience in effective partnership working and stakeholder engagement to plan and deliver services.
– Experience in collating and presenting public health, mental health, and social care data from different sources, both in writing and verbally.
– Experience in consulting and developing overarching strategic documents.
– The ability to remain calm and collected when working under pressure.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. 

Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and well-being support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.  

Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may be diverted through to junk email folders.  Please continue to check these through the application process.  If you have any questions about the status of your application, please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk