Job summary
- Main area
- Public Health
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 110-AC104-0525
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Keir Hardie University Health Park
- Town
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Salary
- £37,898 - £45,637 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Public Health Practitioner
Band 6
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
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and well-motivated professional to join our Public Health Team in Cwm Taf Morgannwg, working across the three counties of Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
This is a specialist public health role within Cwm Taf Morgannwg Public Health Team. It contributes to the planning, development, delivery and evaluation of partnership programmes and initiatives to promote health and well-being across all sectors, in line with agreed local and national strategies.
Implementation will be system-wide, engaging health, local authority, and third sector colleagues as well as wider partners.
The team is committed to agile working and will involve some home working alongside working in our office sites.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will support the implementation and delivery of public health programmes in a range of different settings and with identified target groups, including community health development.
Responsibilities are at a Cwm Taf Morgannwg Public Health Team level and the post holder is expected to work under the direction and guidance of Principal and Senior Public Health Practitioners who will agree specific work objectives on an annual basis according to local needs and priorities.
The post holder will be guided by national, local policies as well as health improvement programmes. The post holder will be the specialist for own health improvement area.
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 team
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
- Degree or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Master’s in Public Health/Health Promotion
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Public health policy/strategies
- Basic knowledge of the health policy context for NHS and local partners
- Health determinants
- Knowledge of one or more health promotion programme areas
- Health determinants
Desirable criteria
- UKPHR Practitioner Portfolio
- Evidence of CPD
- Knowledge of public health models and approaches
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post graduate work experience
- Experience of working with a range of partner organisations relevant to health improvement
- Experience in establishing new initiatives
Desirable criteria
- Experience in health promotion/public health
Skills
Essential criteria
- Project management
- Communication skills
- Multi-media presentation skills
- Research methods including data collection and analysis
- Training skills
- Standard IT skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Claire Thomas
- Job title
- Professional Manager - Population Health
- Email address
- [email protected]
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