Job summary
- Main area
- Public Health
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Secondment: 11 months (Seconmdment: 11 months - Maternity cover)
- Hours
- 37.5 hours per week (Full time - 37.5 hours per week)
- Job ref
- 040-AC476-1024
- 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
- 14/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Public Health Principal - Health Improvement
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Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process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
Maternity cover - We are seeking a motivated individual to join the Public Health team, working on Health Improvement locally. The post holder will work with a range of teams and services to deliver health improvement objectives, and lead a team of practitioners. The post holder must be able to demonstrate their ability to work with multi-disciplinary/multi-agency teams of diverse individuals and be able to manage conflicting perspectives. Key working relationships that the post holder will be expected to establish and maintain, both internally and externally of ABUHB, include fellow Public Health team members, other ABUHB departments, Public Health Wales, other Health Boards, and Local Authorities. There may be times when the post holder will be expected to work with, engage and/or communicate with members of the public.
This post is fixed term/secondment for 11 months due to - meet the needs of the service
If you are interested in applying for the secondment position, you must obtain permission from your current line manager prior to applying for this post.
Main duties of the job
The role requires the successful candidate to be a lead and advocate for public health action on the wider determinants of health, such as education and skills, good work, money and resources, housing and our surroundings, and on health inequalities. Undertake a highly complex analysis of interventions, population health and wellbeing; health needs, risks, and inequalities; and the use of services.
The fundamental element of the role is to provide leadership to drive improvement in health outcomes and the reduction of health inequalities, oversee annual business planning at a public health team level that aligns to priorities set by the Executive Director of Public Health and Strategic Partnerships supporting the Deputy Director of Population Health and Business Development to deliver financially viable plans and work within the standing financial instructions of the Health Board.
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
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 and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Master's in public health/health promotion or Allied discipline or equivalent professional qualification or equivalent demonstrable professional experience
- Evidence of continuing professional/personal development
- Extensive practical and theoretical knowledge of Public Health practice, health promotion models and community development.
- Understanding of determinants of health and health inequalities.
Desirable criteria
- Registered or working towards registration with the UK Public Health Register (Practitioner registration)
- Up to date knowledge of developments in WG health related strategies. Awareness of sources of relevant data/information.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience in a senior role in delivery of public health initiatives
- Substantial direct experience of working with diverse senior professional and managerial groups across a range of organisations and professional disciplines.
- A track record of representing public health themes in different fora
- Staff management and development experience.
- Experience of leading/developing and implementing varied Public Health/Health Improvement initiatives
- Experience of working with the main partner organisations especially local government understanding the environmental and “political” context in which they operate. Quantitative and/or qualitative research.
Desirable criteria
- Motivational skills
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Strategic and analytical thinker and planner
- Proven ability to work successfully with diverse professional partners across a range of organisations. Able to multi task in a fluid environment.
- Ability to prioritise plan and manage workload.
- Clear understanding of project planning and management, including monitoring and evaluation of projects.
- Consultancy/facilitation skills
- Multimedia communication and presentation skills.
- Information and knowledge management skills.
- IT skills
- Data analysis and interpretation.
- Change management.
- Team forming and building. Budgetary management
- Training skills including training needs analysis and evaluation.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in the NHS in Wales
- Welsh Language Skills are desirable levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh.
Other
Essential criteria
- Satisfactory Standard DBS clearance including an/a Adults and Children’s Barred List check
- Self-motivated
- Committed to equality of opportunity.
- Resilience and commitment.
- Motivator, Team player
- Ability to positively influence the actions of others.
- Ability to travel between sites in a timely manner to fulfil the requirements of the post.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in the NHS in Wales
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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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