Job summary
- Main area
- Nutrition and Dietetics
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-AHP064-0525
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- To Be Confirmed
- Town
- To Be Confirmed
- Salary
- £46,840 - £53,602 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Public Health Dietitian
NHS AfC: Band 7
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
This is an exciting new opportunity to join the public health dietetic team in Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board. The first 12 months of this post will specifically build upon the success of the All-Wales Diabetes Prevention Programme and its wider roll out across the Health Board.
You will be responsible for ensuring a quality and outcome focussed dietetic service for the health board population, delivering against key project performance indicators for a range of services.
Posts will be managed by our Public Health Dietetic Professional Manager who will provide regular supervision sessions. Staff will also have access to an ongoing programme of Motivational Interviewing training and coaching sessions.
The post is based in the uniquely built Keir Hardie University Health Park http://cwmtaf.wales/visiting/keir-hardie-university-health-park/ as well as set up to work from home, whilst ensuring service needs are met.
Full time and part time hours will be considered.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Main duties of the job
This post holder will be responsible for the co-design and evaluation the diabetes prevention programmes within CTM UHB with key stakeholders.
They will be responsible for the development of monthly, quarterly and annual service reports as well as the leadership of a small delivery team and admin resource.
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
Experience
Essential criteria
- Specialist public health knowledge
- Working at a senior level across settings
- Audit and research
Skills
Essential criteria
- Motivational Interviewing
- Communication
- Organisation
- Supervision
- Stakeholder engagement
Desirable criteria
- Ability to speak welsh
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc (Hons) Nutrition and Dietetics
- HCPC registration
- MSc or equivalent
- Motivational Interviewing
- Teaching qualification
Desirable criteria
- Clinical educators
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Shelley Powell
- Job title
- Dietetic Professional Manager – Public Health
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Shelley Powell
Dietetic Professional Manager – Public Health
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