Last Updated: 2025-08-01 14:26:55
Workforce
The Fairer Health for All Academy facilitates shared learning, innovation and collaborative approaches to public health workforce development and leadership.
What is Public Health?
"Public health is the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health through the organised efforts of society. The public health workforce delivers a range of work to protect and improve the health of populations at local, regional, national and global level." Faculty of Public Health
Watch the video below by NHS Health Careers to hear public health staff explaining what public health is. Also on this page you can learn more about what it means to work in public health, including the different kinds of roles and career opportunities. Whether you already work in public health or are new to the field, read on to find out about what learning and development opportunities are available both nationally and in Greater Manchester.
Introduction to the Public Health Workforce
Are you new to public health? Click here to explore different public health roles and career options. Public health is everyone's business - from core public health roles to the wider public health workforce, there is a role for everyone.
Fellowship Programme
Open to people working across VCFSE, primary care and secondary care, including mental health, the Fellowship programme enables cross-sectoral learners from a non-public health background to develop their knowledge and skills in population health, equality and sustainability and to put their learning into practice in their workplace with guidance from professional mentors. A limited scheme is underway as proof of concept, with learnings intended to build out a more substantive scheme across the next 3 years.
Other Learning and Development Opportunities
Whether you are new to public health or keen to develop within the public health workforce, there are a number of possible learning and career development opportunities available. Click here to find out what training courses, apprenticeships and online resources are available.
Workforce Support Resources
See below a growing collection of resources to support our Greater Manchester workforce:
Greater Manchester Wellbeing Toolkit
This toolkit has been developed by NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care for the benefit of our health and care workforce, including colleagues in the NHS and social care, as well as those in the voluntary sector, those delivering health and care services in the private sector and our unwaged workforce too.
Greater Manchester Recruitment and Retention Toolkit
This toolkit contains practical tools, including videos, case studies and links to resources, all aimed at helping you improve the recruitment processes within your organisation. This toolkit is aimed at colleagues working in health and care in Greater Manchester, who are responsible for implementing or improving recruitment processes and/or the overall experience of the workforce and retaining their staff.
Greater Manchester Inclusive Recruitment Toolkit
In Greater Manchester numerous organisations are facing increased recruitment and retention challenges that are leading to high staff turnover rates and difficulties with filling key vacancies. This toolkit contains practical tools, including videos, case studies and links to resources, all aimed at helping you improve the recruitment processes within your organisation.
Greater Manchester Multiple Disadvantage Framework
The aim of this framework is to explore how the health and care sector might improve the way they recruit and retain individuals with experience of multiple disadvantage, and might they be better served when accessing services.