Job vacancy: Inclusion Health Capabilities Framework Implementation Lead, Public Health Wales NHS Trust, Cardiff

Job summary

Main area: Health and Wellbeing
Grade: Band 8a
Contract: 4 months (Secondment for 4 months ending on 31/03/2026 due to funding)
Hours: Part time - 15 hours per week
Job ref: 028-AHP006-0825

Employer: Public Health Wales NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: 2 Capital Quarter
Town: Cardiff
Salary: £56,514 - £63,623 Per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 11/09/2025 23:59

Inclusion Health Capabilities Framework Implementation Lead

Band 8a

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

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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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Formulate and coordinate complex, multi-stranded implementation plans for the national roll-out of the Inclusion Health Capabilities Framework with a high level of intellectual rigour. This includes strategic planning, managing interdependencies across multi-agency programmes, and re-prioritising resources to ensure timely and effective delivery, considering local and organisational needs, national policy and strategy directions

Exercise professional judgement and autonomy in leading bespoke, time-bound national programmes, working within broad organisational policies and reporting to the Consultant in Public Health

Apply advanced planning and organisational skills to manage competing priorities, mitigate risks, and ensure optimal use of information and other resources, responding flexibly to emerging challenges, adapting plans and timelines to maintain delivery momentum.

Communicate, influence, negotiate and collaborate effectively with a broad range of stakeholders and senior leadership, including staff working within Health Boards/Trusts; clinical professional groups and bodies; and other key stakeholder organisations.

Network extensively within their sphere to capture information and views, which will influence and shape the implementation of the framework

Lead the development and implementation of national policy and service improvement initiatives related to inclusion health.

Chairing, leading, and facilitating a range of senior level meetings, networks and conversations, managing resistance, and negotiating across systems to support the national roll out of the capability’s framework

Interpret national policy and translate it into actionable local strategies, ensuring alignment with NHS Wales objectives and contributing to service transformation.

Translate strategic guidance into service development plans, contribute subject matter expertise to shape the direction and implementation of inclusion health initiatives.

Co-design and deliver professional educational programmes, career pathways or specialist frameworks programmes aligned with national priorities.

Participate in meetings which require communication with a variety of audiences and mixtures of attendees. These may include working across the Division, across Public Health Wales and with strategic partners including Health Education and Improvement Wales, Welsh Government, the Strategic Programme for Primary Care, Health Boards and Primary and Community care colleagues, clinical senior and frontline staff across health care professional groups, health professionals in inclusion health settings such as prison, other health and employers and other key stakeholders.

Work closely with the National Steering Group for the Capabilities Framework, to evaluate the framework’s implementation, including the interpretation of complex data, stakeholder insights, and literature review.

Apply clinical and theoretical knowledge to identify best practices and contribute to continuous improvement through evidence-based recommendations and applied research, reporting progress and adapting outputs to the need.

Ensure the work is based on sound public health principles informed by the interpretation of complex data and evidence, focused on prevention, early intervention and reducing health inequalities.

Build in considerations for the accreditation of the framework

Disseminates findings to inform national learning and promote evidence-based practice

Represent work in a variety of platforms and provide updates to senior team

Whilst the postholder will not have direct line management responsibilities, they will be expected to provide leadership and direction to project support staff, ensuring adherence to agreed milestones and communicating progress.

Manage information resources used and generated by the programme.

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.

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.

Person specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

Essential criteria

Educated to master’s level in relevant subject, or equivalent level
Professional registration with NMC or one of the 13 AHP HCPC registered professions in Wales
Extensive clinical and theoretical knowledge of health inclusion groups and their specific health and social needs
Extensive knowledge of health inclusion settings where healthcare may be delivered such as specialised services or prisons
Understanding of the relevant Welsh NHS structures and Prison Health in Wales and the strategic direction for NHS Wales
Working knowledge of policy, strategy and guidance on health and wellbeing, health inequalities and health inclusion in Wales
Knowledge and understanding of key stakeholders relevant to this work

Desirable criteria

Post graduate educational qualifications in health inclusion
Members of the inclusion health groups, or networks.

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of leading on bespoke and time bound national pieces of work within primary/community care and inclusion health settings
Demonstrable experience of partnership working with a wide range of stakeholders throughout Health, Social care and Voluntary Sector
Demonstrate experience of leadership and influencing skills
Experience of working with a diverse range of professionals form different organisational cultures to enable co design and delivery of the output.
Previous experience of leading on and or developing and implementing professional educational programmes, career pathways or specialist frameworks

Skills and Attributes

Essential criteria

Proven influencing and negotiating skills
Ability to influence and shape thinking, particularly where there is uncertainty or a lack of clarity
Ability to problem solve and respond to sudden unexpected demands
Proven ability to lead, implement, and roll out similar bespoke educational programmes / frameworks in health and social care
Highly skilled communicator able to influence, provide and receive, convey and present complex and potentially contentious information to large groups, responding to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement
Ability to analyse and understand a broad range of information quickly and make decisions where opinions differ or there is no obvious solution.
• Ensure the most appropriate use of resources to enable timely and effective delivery of the programme of work - requiring highly skilled organisational and planning expertise
• Advanced keyboard and informatics skills

Desirable criteria

Ability to demonstrate understanding and application of our workplace values, together with the underpinning behaviours identified for success in this role
Welsh Language Skills are desirable
Ability to interpret national policy and offer subject matter expertise to influence direction and implementation, with the confidence to debate this on a national stage.

Other

Desirable criteria

Ability to travel between sites in a timely manner to meet the needs of the service if required.

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]

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Visa Sponsorship Eligibility

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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.

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.