Job summary
- Main area
- Public Health
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- 37.5 hours per week (Full time - 37.5 hours per week)
- Job ref
- 040-AC408-1025
- Employer
- Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Llanarth House
- Town
- Newbridge
- Salary
- £39,263 - £47,280 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Public Health Practitioner - Health Protection
Band 6
We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.
Please let us know if you have any particular requirements to enable you to participate in the application and selection process. We will be pleased to discuss any reasonable adjustments OR SUPPORT needed. If you need any documents in a larger font or a different format (such as braille) please either contact the recruiting manager named in the job advert or alternatively contact the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board recruitment team on 01495 745805 option 3 OR EMAIL [email protected]
If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process
Job overview
We are seeking to appoint a motivated professional who is passionate about Health Protection to join our team. The local Health Protection team works across five local authority areas and sits within the wider Gwent Public Health team. As a Public Health Practitioner, you will work in collaboration with a range of teams and services to deliver our objectives.
The post holder must be able to demonstrate their ability to work in partnership with other agencies and be able to manage conflicting perspectives. Key working relationships (internal and external) include fellow Health Protection and Public Health team members, other ABUHB departments (including Emergency Planning, Infection Prevention and Control), Public Health Wales, other Health Boards, Local Authorities and Social Care Providers. There may be times when the post holder will be expected to work with, engage and/or communicate with members of the public.
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
The successful candidate will support the delivery of health protection programmes and responses across various areas, settings and target groups aligned with local priorities and contributing to the Gwent Public Health Team’s vision of a healthier, fairer, safer and stronger Gwent.
The post holder will contribute to programmes including:
- Sexual health (e.g., STIs, C-card scheme, cervical screening, HPV vaccination promotion), requiring collaboration with clinical teams, project management and reporting to senior management.
- National elimination programmes for blood-borne viruses (Hepatitis B & C, HIV) and tuberculosis
- Vaccination equity initiatives
- Screening of high-risk populations
The role will focus on defined areas but may be required to support a range of health protection issues based on service needs. You will be expected to support any acute response to a public health incident in line with national policies and guidance. Including:
- Supporting responses to public health incidents in collaboration with the Health Protection Clinical Response team
- Support the identification, prevention, control and relevant response to infectious and non-infectious threats to the population of Gwent
Establishing situational awareness, supporting the mobilising of vaccinations and testing in partnership with relevant teams, supporting contact tracing if required, engagement with relevant stakeholders
Working for our organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
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
Qualification and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Degree (or equivalent) in a relevant subject, or equivalent demonstratable experience
- Registered Nurse
- Registered with a UK statutory heath regulator (e.g., HCPC)
- Demonstrate the ability to register with the UK Public Health Register on commencement of employment
- Environmental Health Registration Board (EHRB) Certificate of Registration
- Post Graduate Diploma in Management or equivalent demonstrable knowledge and experience
- Knowledge of the main principles underpinning infectious disease, infection prevention and control, and vaccination and immunisation
- Knowledge of the determinants of health and public health programmes.
- Knowledge of the needs of different populations and sensitivity to cultural backgrounds.
- Understanding of evidence-based practice and related practical application.
Desirable criteria
- Recognised infection prevention and control qualification to post grad diploma level.
- Recognised teaching and training qualification
- Registered with UKPHR.
- Understanding of the importance of effective stakeholder collaboration.
- Understanding of health protection issues and practices.
- Post Graduate Diploma in Management or equivalent demonstrable knowledge and experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in the field of health protection, public health, nursing, , healthcare, environmental health or other demonstrable experience relevant to the post.
- Experience of working with a range of partner organisations relevant to public health.
- Experience of prioritising and managing own workload to meet the demands of the service
- Experience of dealing with sensitive or difficult situations.
Desirable criteria
- Experience in either infectious diseases or infection prevention and control.
- Teaching/training experience
- Line management experience
- Experience in research and audit.
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Effective risk assessment skills
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands within sphere of responsibility.
- IT skills and experience with both databases and office suites.
- Ability to analyse and interpret a range of information.
- Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team environment.
- Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information.
Desirable criteria
- Welsh Language Skills are desirable levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh
Other
Desirable criteria
- Committed to self-development and willing to share experience with others to influence practice.
- Ability to acknowledge own limitations/competence
- An understanding of the benefit of a commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships, both in terms of day to-day working practices, and in relation to management systems.
- Commitment to team working
- Flexible to the needs of the service
- Ability to function under unpredictable working patterns particularly during outbreaks and incidents.
- Ability to travel between sites in a timely manner to meet the needs of the service
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Daniel Clayton
- Job title
- Principal PH Practitioner - Health Protection
- Email address
- [email protected]
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