Job vacancy: Consultant in Public Health, Public Health Wales NHS Trust, Cardiff

Job summary

Main area: Public Health Consultant
Grade: Band 9
Contract: Fixed term: 3 years (Due to funding)
Hours: Part time - 15 hours per week
Job ref: 028-MD002-0324

Employer: Public Health Wales NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: 2 Capital Quarter
Town: Cardiff
Salary: £101,390 - £116,673 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 28/04/2024 23:59

Consultant in Public Health

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

To find out more visit Public Health Wales and watch this video about our Strategic Plan

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 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The position will contribute to Public Health Wales’s long term strategy priority: influencing the wider determinants of health, to inform, advocate for and mobilise action on poverty and health. 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.

This is a temporary post which may be taken up as a secondment.

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.

For more information see attached Job Description and Person Specification

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential criteria

Inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List/UK Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialists and be licensed to practice
If included in the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List in a specialty other than public health medicine/dental public health, candidates must have equivalent training and/or appropriate experience of public health medicine practice and be licensed to practice
Public health specialty registrar applicants who are not yet on the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List in dental public health/UKPHR must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they are within 6 months of gaining entry at the date of interview
Applicants must meet minimum CPD requirements (i.e. be up to date) in accordance with Faculty of Public Health requirements or other recognised body
MFPH by examination, by exemption or by assessment

Experience

Essential criteria

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 beyond on health and healthcare improvement 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
Experience working within health improvement/health promotion leading multi-agency action
Experience of reviewing and developing services in public health or health care settings

Desirable criteria

Scientific publications, presentation of papers at conferences, seminars
Experience of contributing to on-call public health emergency response

Skills

Essential criteria

Strategic thinker with proven leadership skills

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Knowledge and understanding of large-scale change to the public health system.

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]

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 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.