Job summary
- Main area
- Public Health
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
- Job ref
- 110-AC284-0724
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Glanrhyd Hospital
- Town
- Bridgend
- Salary
- £35,922 - £43,257 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/07/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 08/08/2024
Employer heading
Health Protection Practitioner
Band 6
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and well motivated professional to join our Public Health Team in Cwm Taf Morgannwg, working across the three counties of Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf. You will be a Practitioner in a new strategic Health Protection Team which sits within the wider Public Health Team and will work closely with the CTM Health Protection Service that is delivered across the Health Board and Local Authorities in partnership.
Main duties of the job
The new Health Protection Service will work in partnership with other agencies including the Local Authorities and Public Health Wales to respond to emerging and existing health protection threats as required. Areas of work will include:
· Pandemic Planning
· Responding to infectious disease outbreaks
· National elimination programmes for blood borne virus and tuberculosis
· Screening of populations most at risk from specific diseases
· Immunisations and vaccinations support
· Prison health
· Antimicrobial resistancance
· Environmental health threats
· Addressing health inequalities in health protection response
· Support to emergency planning including CBRN incidents
· Delivery of training in health protection to staff and volunteers
It is envisaged that if successful you will be asked to focus on defined areas of work.
The successful candidate will support the implementation and delivery of health protection programmes and responses in a range of different settings and with identified target groups in line with key local priorities, contributing to a healthier, happier and more active families in Cwm Taf Morgannwg. If you can demonstrate experience and interest in health protection work to date, then please consider applying.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Masters in Public Health/Health Protection
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Public health policy/strategies
- Basic knowledge of the health policy context for NHS and local partners
- Health determinants
- Knowledge of one or more health promotion programme areas
Desirable criteria
- UKPHR Practitioner Portfolio
- Evidence of CPD
- Knowledge of public health models and approaches
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post graduate work experience
- Experience of working with a range of partner organisations relevant to health protection
- Experience in establishing new initiatives
Desirable criteria
- Experience in health protection/public health
Skills
Essential criteria
- Project management
- Communication skills
- Multi-media presentation skills
- Research methods including data collection and analysis
- Training skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kate May
- Job title
- Assistant Director of Public Health
- Email address
- [email protected]
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