Job summary
- Main area
- Public Health
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- 37.5 hours per week (Full time)
- Job ref
- 040-AC475-1024
- Employer
- Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Llanarth House
- Town
- Newbridge
- Salary
- £54,550 - £61,412 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/11/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 04/12/2024
Employer heading
Principal of Intelligence and Wider Determinants
Band 8a
We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.
If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process
The salary scale above has been agreed as part of the NHS Agenda for Change pay award for 2024/2025 and will be implemented in November 2024 backdated to 1st April 2024 where applicable.
Job overview
The Public Health Team is building their intelligence function to improve population health and are seeking a talented individual with a drive to reduce inequalities. You will lead the public health Intelligence and population health management programme using relevant linked datasets to improve the health and well-being of the population of Gwent. Continuing our journey to be a population health organisation, the public health agenda is central to our strategy for improving the health and well-being outcomes for our local population via best use of NHS resources. It will be essential to have experience using such things as, excel, R, python, SQL Queries, Power BI and other reporting tools. As a Marmot region, reducing health inequalities and tackling wider determinants of health is at the core of what we do. We need someone that is passionate and can drive our insights into the social, economic and environmental determinants of health to inform our approach to tackling inequalities in health and create a stronger, fairer, safer Gwent.
Main duties of the job
You will help us achieve this through delivery of an annual online Joint Strategic Assessment, by leading the development of action orientated dashboards, by providing a social narrative that tells the story of Gwent and championing health equality and equity through analysis.
You will support the development of population health indicators that will reduce inequalities and providing statistical insight about health, care and well-being across Gwent, including robust analytics surrounding primary, secondary and tertiary prevention. You’ll be supporting the development of warehouse for Health Board linked data, including the data standards, security and quality and taking a key role in supporting the development of a population health management platform to deliver better outcomes to the residents of Gwent. We are keenly interested in data that supports the wider determinants of health, not just health care.
Using your technical skills to identify, extract and make sense of data to provide actionable intelligence using appropriate software. You’ll develop prediction modelling and need to work in both a Patient Identifiable and anonymised world, building the bridge between the two using appropriate secure algorithms.
The post holder should demonstrate commitment to equality, diversity, equity, health and well-being.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your speciality or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Full details of role and responsibilities can be viewed in the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualications and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Educated to master’s level in a relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist analytical area and extensive senior experience in public health or health inequalities
- Have specialist thorough knowledge of the principles of mathematics and statistics.
- Must demonstrate knowledge of the current health system within Gwent, the aims and aspirations of the Health Board and current national health policy
- Knowledge of the Public Health agenda
- Equality and Diversity – knowledge and understanding of equality and diversity issues and how personally can make a positive difference to this agenda
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the role of Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
- Knowledge of health inequalities
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Skills for managing relationships with a range of different stakeholders.
- Ability to oversee and influence workloads and deliverables in other teams within the function
- Skills for delivering results through managing through others and using a range of levers in the absence of direct line management responsibility
- Ability to liaise and work with lead analysts /relevant stakeholder across multiple organisations to ensure that the work programme is well communicated and delivers outputs, as expected.
- Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
- Negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.
- Excellent presentational skills for conveying complex concepts, be a comp tent translator of data.
- Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others.
- Be able to effectively lead training and development programmes for internal and external persons.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Must understand the background to and aims of current public health and healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master’s level equivalent.
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Experience in public health analytics, data warehousing experience
- At least 2 years’ experience of working in public health and / or health services planning within the public sector
- Experience and understanding of evaluating and measuring the performance of public health services
- Practical advanced experience or training in SQL
- Practical advanced experience or training in Python or R
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery.
- Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be several courses of action.
Desirable criteria
- Welsh Speaker (Level 1) or willingness to work towards
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Simon Hodsdon
- Job title
- Head of Public Health
- Email address
- [email protected]
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