Job vacancy: Senior Public Health Practitioner, Swansea Bay University Health Board, Port Talbot

Job summary

Main area: Public Health
Grade: Band 7
Contract: 9 months (fixed term/secondment post until 31.03.2026, due to funding)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 130-AC101-0625

Employer: Swansea Bay University Health Board
Employer type: NHS
Site: Swansea Bay University Health Board
Town: Port Talbot
Salary: £46,840 - £53,602 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 26/06/2025 23:59

Senior Public Health Practitioner

Band 7

Welcome to Swansea Bay University Health Board. We welcome applications from people who share our values: caring for each other, working together and always improving.

Swansea Bay University Health Board reserve the right to close this vacancy after 24 hours if a large number of suitable applications are received. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post.

Prior consideration for this vacancy will be given to staff currently awaiting redeployment and we therefore reserve the right to withdraw this advert at any stage.

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.

Applications may be submitted in Welsh. Applications submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will:

Provide public health expertise to implementing a Whole Systems Approach (WSA) to Healthy Weight as part of a newly formed, small regional team working across Swansea Bay and Hywel Dda University Health Boards (UHBs)
Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, partner organisations and communities to promote health and wellbeing and Whole Systems Approach priorities.
Develop, implement and evaluate a range of public health/health promotion programmes to meet identified needs and priorities contributing to health improvement and reduction in health inequalities.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Person specification

Qualifications & Knowledge

Essential criteria

Masters or equivalent knowledge in Public Health/Health Promotion or allied discipline.

Desirable criteria

Registered, or working towards registration, with the UK Public Health Register (Practitioner Registration).

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience in public health/health promotion
Experience of working across a number of organisations / sectors and/or with a number of programmes, including development, management and evaluation of significant elements of work.
Experience of working with communities.
Experience of undertaking policy development/review and implementation.

Desirable criteria

Experience in overweight and obesity prevention/reduction
Knowledge of systems thinking and system working methodologies

Aptitude and abilities

Essential criteria

Excellent communication and analytical skills.
Ability to work successfully with diverse professional partners, and manage potentially conflicting perspectives.
Ability to source, retrieve and analyse complex data from a range of sources.
Ability to initiate, implement and evaluate programmes that promote health and well-being.

Desirable criteria

Capacity building.
Consultancy/ Facilitation skills
Ability to speak, write and read Welsh (Level 3) or willingness to work towards

Swansea Bay University Health Board is committed to supporting its staff and processes to fully embrace the need for bilingualism thereby enhancing service users experience. In our commitment to increase the number of staff able to communicate in Welsh with patients and professionals, we would particularly welcome applications from Welsh speakers.

Equality remains at the centre of the Health Boards policy-making, service delivery and employment practices. We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race, religion, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and applications are welcomed from persons with disabilities. A disability will not prejudice your application. If you are unable to submit your application in the requested format because of a disability please contact the Recruitment Team, who will agree a more suitable way for you to apply. All disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria listed in the Person Specification will be invited to interview.

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.