Job summary
- Main area
- Public Health
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 110-AC102-0525
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Keir Hardie University Health Park
- Town
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Salary
- £54,550 - £61,412 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Principal Public Health Practitioner - Substance Use
Band 8a
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
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
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and innovative individual to join the Cwm Taf Morgannwg Local Public Health Team working as a Principal Public Health Practitioner.
This is a strategic role focusing on substance use, jointly funded by the Cwm Taf Morgannwg Area Planning Board (APB) and Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTMUHB) and hosted by the CTMUHB Public Health Team.
The role will work closely with the officers of the APB, and as a senior member of the CTMUHB Public Health Team. Alcohol and drugs are lead contributors to morbidity and mortality within our region, and there is an urgent need to build our strategic approach.
The post holder will be a member of the strategic group of the CTMUHB Public Health Team and provide public health expertise to the work of the APB, working in close partnership with the APB officers, who are hosted by Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council.
We are committed to agile working and will involve home working alongside working in office sites across Cwm Taf Morgannwg, including co-locating with APB officers in Rhondda Cynon Taff.
Main duties of the job
The role will be responsible for:
· Raising the profile of the substance use agenda regionally and within CTMUHB.
· Providing local leadership and strengthening our strategic approach to reducing the harms from alcohol and drugs.
· Providing public health expertise to the commissioning cycle for substance use services in CTM.
· Connecting across the developing regional health protection system and harm reduction agenda.
There will be opportunities to work alongside colleagues at a national level as we advocate for stronger leadership and action on substance use in Wales. As a new post, there is an opportunity to develop the role as priorities emerge in collaboration with the APB and Public Health Consultant.
It will be essential to work with a range of partner agencies and within CTMUHB against the priorities of the APB, health board and national strategy as it develops. Experience of working in substance use or commissioning will be valued.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one tea
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
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
Essential criteria
- Masters or equivalent level in Public Health/Health Promotion or allied discipline, or equivalent professional qualification.
Desirable criteria
- Registered, or working towards registration, with the UK Public Health Register (Practitioner Registration).
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Evidence of continuing professional/personal development
- Extensive practical and theoretical knowledge of government/ NHS policy agenda and Public Health practice and models.
- Understanding of determinants of health and health inequalities.
Desirable criteria
- Up to date knowledge of developments in WG health-related strategies
- Information management and an understanding of health related data and its interpretation.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience in a senior role in Public Health/Health Promotion or working in local government.
- Substantial direct experience of working with diverse senior professional and managerial groups across a range of organisations and professional disciplines including development, managing and evaluation of significant elements of work.
- Extensive experience of training/facilitation work with a diverse range of stakeholders at all levels of organisations.
- A track record of presenting public health concepts, theories, knowledge and evidence in different fora.
- Staff management and development experience.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with the main partner organisations especially local government understanding the environmental and “political” context in which they operate.
- Qualitative research methods.
- Experience of leading/developing and implementing varied Public Health/Health Promotion initiatives.
- Policy development
Skills
Essential criteria
- Strategic and analytical thinker and planner.
- Clear understanding of project planning and management, including monitoring and evaluation of projects
- Proven ability to work successfully with diverse professional partners at all levels, and manage potentially conflicting perspectives.
- Ability to support implementation of policies and programmes that promote health and wellbeing.
- Data collection and analysis.
- Training skills including training needs analysis and evaluation.
Desirable criteria
- Data analysis and interpretation.
- Budgetary management.
- Project planning and management.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Robert Green
- Job title
- Consultant in Public Health
- Email address
- [email protected]
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