Job vacancy: Diabetes Prevention Programme Manager, Public Health Wales NHS Trust, Cardiff

Job summary

Main area

Health and Wellbeing

Grade

Band 8a

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Part time
Home or remote working

22.5 hours per week

Job ref

028-AC159-0725

Employer: Public Health Wales NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: 2 Capital Quarter
Town: Cardiff
Salary: £54,550 - £61,412 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 16/07/2025 23:59

Diabetes Prevention Programme Manager

Band 8a

Welcome to Public Health Wales, the national public health organisation for Wales

Our vision is Working to achieve a healthier future for Wales

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Working together, with trust and respect, to make a difference

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.

Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.

This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Leading and directing effective development and delivery of key activity, ensuring stakeholder commitment to and evaluation of the intervention proposed and delivered.

This includes specific responsibility for:

Ensuring an appropriate programme management framework is in place.

Providing leadership guidance to the health board teams agreeing deliverables, milestones and timescales for specific activity within the programme ensuring there is progress delivered in line with a programme plan.

Preparing programme reports, project initiation documents (or equivalent) and business cases as required.

Identifying and understanding the needs of stakeholders, both internally and externally for each aspect of delivery including programme governance, programme delivery, and programme evaluation. Dialogue must promote problem solving, team working and risk-sharing.

Facilitating close partnership working with all the key stakeholders to lead, promote and share good practice.

Deploying the programme’s resources to meet strategic priorities and objectives.

Identifying and managing the programme risks and ensuring adequate controls and actions are in place.

Ensuring the development of quality and process controls essential to the application of quality, safety and clinical governance across the programme.

Establishing formal reporting arrangements. Monitoring and managing performance within the programme, initiating corrective action where appropriate.

Where barriers exist to the implementation of the diabetes prevention intervention, the postholder may be required to challenge the workforce, senior service managers and clinicians.

This will require highly developed communication and inter-personal skills and may involve situations requiring the effective management of conflict.

Contributing to the development of further obesity strategy, effective governance and risk management.

The postholder will have a high degree of autonomy in the delivery of these responsibilities, being held accountable for successful delivery to agreed standards, within Trust policies.

Acting as an ambassador for Public Health Wales and NHS Wales; representing Public Health Wales on partnerships and external bodies, as agreed and appropriate.

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 on Trac.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential criteria

Educated to Masters level or equivalent level of work experience
Evidence of continuous professional development

Desirable criteria

MBA, Finance Qualification or Service Improvement and modernisation or project management qualification e.g. EQFM, Lean, TQM, IQT and PRINCE 2, MSP etc

Personal qualities

Essential criteria

Committed to a culture of continuous improvement and development – underpinned by open communications and team working
Sets expectations and role models effective leadership behaviour
Strong commitment to public health principles and adding public health values to corporate agendas
Capacity to manage demanding workloads and perseverance combined with a flexible approach and ability to manage wide range of unrelated projects and issues on a daily basis
Strong personal commitment to working collaboratively and ability to build effective relationships with people of all capabilities and attitudes
Commitment to team-working, and respect and consideration for the skills of others, values diversity and individual contribution
Self-motivated, pro-active and passionate about delivery
High standards of professional probity
Motivates and encourages people to strive for service and personal improvement

Experience

Essential criteria

Significant relevant experience in project or change management, working with multi-disciplinary teams and building effective relationships
Experience in preparing, producing and negotiating complex business and service development plans
Experience of building professional and technical capability and capacity in teams
Experience in facilitating and managing complex change and leading across complex systems

Desirable criteria

Experience of working within health services
Experience of other sectors such as private, voluntary or independent sector
Experience of implementing quality strategies

Skills

Essential criteria

Strong evidence of leadership and change management skills, able to create an environment in which others can succeed
Ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the organisation and with external organisations, through a wide range of channels – oral, written and digital
Effective relationship building and influencing skills when dealing with multiple stakeholders and sensitive political agendas
Skilled at dealing with the public and patient interest groups
Ability to respond appropriately in unplanned and unforeseen circumstances
Effective interpersonal, motivational and influencing skills
Sensible negotiator with practical expectation of what can be achieved
Ability to assimilate and make sense of complex or conflicting data and different perspectives
Ability to design, develop, interpret and implement policies
Ability to make best use of diverse talents, technology and resources to deliver results

Desirable criteria

Ability to communicate through the medium of the Welsh language

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Knowledge of leadership techniques and systems leadership thinking
Full understanding of and commitment to addressing impacts on the wider determinants of health
Full understanding of and commitment to delivery of improved health through mainstream NHS activities
Understanding of health and local government cultures, structures and policies and social and political environments
Knowledge of methods of developing clinical quality assurance, quality improvement and evidence based clinical and/or public health practice

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 [email protected]

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 short listed for 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 seeking flexible working arrangements.

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.