Main area: Consultant Public Health
Grade: Band 9
Contract: 22 months (Fixed term until September 2026)
Hours: 15 hours per week (Four sessions)
Job ref: 028-MD038-1124
Employer: Public Health Wales NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Cardiff
Salary: £106,000 - £154,760 AfC Band 9 non-medical staff or medical consultant scale per year
Closing date: 17/11/2024 23:59
Consultant in Public Health/Public Health Medicine WDOH
Band 9
Welcome to Public Health Wales, the national public health organisation for Wales.
Our vision is Working to achieve a healthier future for Wales.
Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh; any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English. To support our all-Wales service, we particularly welcome applications from Welsh speakers.
Job overview
Do you want to use your public health skills to influence the causes of ill-health?
The Wider Determinants of Health Unit of Public Health Wales is seeking an enthusiastic Public Health Consultant to work with us for two days a week until September 2026, to lead a programme of work supporting multi-sector action on wider determinants, including poverty, to improve health.
As the successful candidate, you will have a successful track record of working with multiple agencies and disciplines at a senior level to achieve public health goals. You will have a good knowledge of current policy and developments in Wales, including the application of the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015. You will have experience of facilitating change and of collaboration across organisational boundaries. You will be able to demonstrate highly developed influencing, negotiation, and motivation skills to drive action through partnerships.
You will provide specialist input to the Building a Healthier Wales Coordination Group, which brings together senior leaders from across Wales to maximise the impact of collective efforts of agencies in Wales to improve health, well-being, and equity.
Main duties of the job
1. Provide public health strategic leadership, informing, advocating for, and mobilising collaborative action on determinants of health, through the Building a Healthier Wales partnership.
2. Develop effective relationships with members, Welsh Government colleagues, local public health teams, local government, and others in Public Health Wales.
3. Contribute to Public Health Wales’s long-term strategy priority: influencing the wider determinants of health.
4. Have a high degree of political awareness, working to influence policy and practice locally and nationally.
Working for our organisation
We are Public Health Wales – the national public health organisation for Wales. Our purpose is ‘working together for a healthier Wales'. We exist to help all people in Wales live longer, healthier lives. With our partners, we aim to increase healthy life expectancy, improve health and well-being, and reduce inequalities for everyone in Wales, now and for future generations.
Together, our teams work to prevent disease, protect health, and provide leadership, specialist services, and public health expertise. We are the main source of public health information, research, and innovation in Wales. Never more has public health been so important as we come through the Coronavirus pandemic, face the challenges of the cost-of-living crisis, and tackle and prevent the harmful effects of climate change.
Our organisation is guided by our Values, 'Working together, with trust and respect, to make a difference'. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that values equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applications which represent the rich diversity of the communities we serve and from those wishing to work part-time or on a job share basis.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This is a temporary post that may be taken up as a secondment. Previous applicants are welcome to apply.
The post-holder must be on the GMC/GDC Specialist Register/UK Voluntary Register / included on the UK Public Health Register for Public Health Specialists.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
* Inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List/UK Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialists and be licensed to practice.
* Applicants must meet minimum CPD requirements (i.e. be up to date) in accordance with Faculty of Public Health requirements or other recognised body.
Personal Qualities
* Personal credibility in senior managerial and political settings.
* Able to prioritise work and work well against a background of change and uncertainty.
* Adaptable to situations, can build powerful relationships with people of all capabilities and attitudes.
Experience
* Practical experience in facilitating change in the public health system.
* Significant strategic experience of leadership for public health.
* Experience of systems leadership and demonstrable experience of delivering effectively through others.
* Experience of effectively engaging staff and colleagues to gain their support for changes to the direction of travel.
* Experience in influencing relevant agencies in Wales and/or beyond on health and/or health determinants agenda.
* Project management.
* Significant experience of public health practice at senior level with a demonstrable interest in health improvement.
* Staff management including learning and development.
* Scientific publications, presentation of papers at conferences, seminars.
Skills
* Strategic thinker with proven leadership skills.
* Ability to effectively influence and collaborate with colleagues and partners.
Knowledge
* Detailed knowledge of NHS Policy and other related sectors.
* Knowledge and understanding of large-scale change to the public health system.
* Understanding of social and political environment in Wales.
* Understanding of approaches and methods relating to behaviour change science and to systems thinking.
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.
Public Health Wales reserves the right to close this vacancy early. We therefore encourage early applications.
Priority is given to staff awaiting redeployment. We therefore reserve the right to withdraw this advert at any stage.
If you have a disability and have any particular requirements to enable you to participate in the application process, please contact [emailprotected].
IMPORTANT NOTE FOR APPLICANTS: Applications for our roles are carefully reviewed and shortlisted based on specific criteria, which varies from job to job. Using a generic application to apply for multiple roles or relying on automated AI application services, such as Lazy Apply or AI Apply, may not provide the necessary information, leading to your application being overlooked. To ensure your application is given full consideration, we recommend submitting a tailored application that directly addresses the criteria listed in the Person Specification section of the advert.
If you are successful and shortlisted for an interview, you will be contacted by email using the address with which you registered. Please ensure you check your email account regularly.
We are committed to fair, transparent recruitment and believe in equality of opportunity in our workplace and will not tolerate discrimination on grounds of age, disability, gender identity, religion or belief, race or nationality, marriage or civil partnership status, sex, sexual orientation, working pattern, caring responsibilities, trade union activity or political beliefs – or on any other grounds. We welcome applications from individuals who may wish to work part-time or apply on a job share basis.
To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa, unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply should self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship by visiting Work in the UK. If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.
The salary scale shown is for a full-time member of staff, with the amount being adjusted pro rata for those working less than 37.5 hours per week.
In general, anyone joining our Trust who has not previously worked in the NHS will, by default, start on the first point of the advertised pay band. Pay progression will then be determined by annual Performance and Development Reviews in accordance with the NHS Wales Pay Progression Policy. An application for Incremental Credit may be considered, but can only be awarded based on evidenced, reckonable service and/or equivalent, relevant experience.
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