Independent Public Health Adviser
Helping public health teams build their own capability.
Training, behaviour change and workforce development — with NHS organisations, local authorities, training bodies and VCSE partners across the South of England and nationally.
What I do
Most of my work is helping people in public health do the difficult part better — the conversation, the training, and the evidence behind it.
MECC and behaviour change training
Design and delivery of Making Every Contact Count and Healthy Conversation Skills training, including train-the-trainer programmes and regional trainer networks.
Workforce development
Capability frameworks, training needs analysis, and programmes that build skills across a team, a service or a whole system.
UKPHR and practitioner development
Assessor and moderator work, and one-to-one support for practitioners building a portfolio against the UKPHR standards.
Green health and social prescribing
Nature-based wellbeing for teams and communities, and the referral skills that make it work in practice.
Free tools
Small, practical tools you can use as they are. No logins, nothing to install, no data collected.
MECC Conversation Practice
Someone mentions their health in passing. You choose how to reply, they respond, and you get feedback on each choice against the Healthy Conversation Skills — including a stronger reply when yours could have gone further. Two scenarios, about three minutes each. No login, no accounts and no data collected — the only thing saved is your own confidence rating, on your own device.
Want this built for your workforce? I build bespoke versions using your own scenarios, local services and branding — hosted for your staff, with no logins to manage. Ask me about a bespoke build.
About
I'm Phil Godfrey. I spent seven years leading public health workforce programmes at NHS England South East, and since July 2026 I've worked independently as PH Capability.
My work is practical: training people use afterwards, capability that stays in the team, and the behaviour change skills that make every contact count.
I work with NHS organisations, local authorities, training bodies and VCSE partners — on single training days and on longer programmes.
Credentials
- UKPHR Registered Practitioner (PR0595)
- MSc Public Health (Merit), Bournemouth University
- MECC Healthy Conversation Skills Super Trainer
- HEA Associate Fellow
- FPH Accreditation Assessor
Get in touch
If you're commissioning training, developing a workforce plan, or you'd like a practice tool built for your team, email me and I'll come back to you.
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