Job summary
- Main area
- Public Health
- Grade
- Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent: Full Time
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 050-CPHW-0624
- Employer
- Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bryn Tirion, Bryn Y Neuadd Hospital
- Town
- Llanfairfechan
- Salary
- £91,722 - £119,079 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/07/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 09/08/2024
Employer heading
Consultant In Public Health
Consultant
If you relish a challenge, have a passion to help others or simply fancy a fresh start, then Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) North Wales, has all the right ingredients. The largest health organisation in Wales, providing a full range of primary, community, mental health, acute and elective hospital services for a population of around 700,000, across North Wales . Join our team and get the support you need, in line with our Organisational Values and ‘Proud to Lead’ competence framework.
Enjoy being part of working with engaged leadership at all levels, and be assured we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and are proud to welcome applicants under the “Disability Confident Employer” scheme. We also offer a number of family-friendly benefits, including work-life balance policies.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Applications may be submitted in Welsh. Applications submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
Consultant in Public Health / Public Health Medicine
Medical consultant scale (point commensurate with previous experience).
Agenda for Change Band 9 for non-medical staff.
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) Public Health Team are seeking to recruit a full-time Consultant in Public Health to join their public health team in North Wales, this is a replacement posts due to retirement. The post will hold a portfolio of work overseen by the current post holder across a range of public health regional priorities for North Wales, as well as taking a place-based leadership role. The post will have place-based responsibility for Gwynedd and Anglesey. Place-based work will consist of working in partnership with stakeholders across the system to achieve improvements in population health, as well as taking a public health leadership role across a range of partnership groups and Public Service Boards.
Main duties of the job
Your responsibilities will cover all areas of Public Health professional practice, including:
· Health Improvement,
· Health Care Quality and Improvement,
· Health Protection,
· Health Intelligence,
· Research and Development.
Further areas of work will be negotiated according to the needs of the department and the skills and knowledge of the successful candidate on appointment. A detailed work plan will be drawn up with the Executive Director of Public Health, upon appointment, drawing on the key tasks outlined in the Job Description.
Working for our organisation
If you relish a challenge, have a passion to help others or simply fancy a fresh start, then Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) North Wales, has all the right ingredients. The largest health organisation in Wales, providing a full range of primary, community, mental health, acute and elective hospital services for a population of around 700,000, across North Wales . Join our team and get the support you need, in line with our Organisational Values and ‘Proud to Lead’ competence framework.
Enjoy being part of working with engaged leadership at all levels, and be assured we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and are proud to welcome applicants under the “Disability Confident Employer” scheme.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
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 be based in the BCUHB offices Llanfairfechan
Applicants must be on the GMC/GDC Specialist Register/UK Public Health Register for Public Health Specialists.
For enquiries, please contact Jinette Parry Business, Support Manager [email protected]
Please apply via jobs.nhs.uk using the reference number
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for these posts; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Person specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List (and licenced to practice) /UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) • If included in the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List in a specialty other than public health medicine/dental public health, candidates must have equivalent training and/or appropriate experience of public health medicine practice • Public health specialty registrar and specialist trainee applicants who are not yet on the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List in dental public health/UKPHR must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they are within 6 months of gaining entry at the date of interview; all other applicants must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they have applied for inclusion in the GMC/GDC/UKPHR specialist registers
- Understanding of epidemiology and statistics, public health practice, health promotion, health economics and health care evaluation
- Knowledge of NHS information, and its interpretation
- Knowledge of wider determinants of health, information and its interpretation
- Understanding of social and political environment
- Understanding of local authorities and social services
Experience
Essential criteria
- Practical experience in facilitating change in clinical practice
- Three or more years’ experience of public health practice at senior level
- Staff Management & Leadership
- Experience working within the health care setting with senior clinicians
Desirable criteria
- Project management
Skills & Attributes
Essential criteria
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Effective interpersonal and influencing skills
- Good presentational skills
- Sensible negotiator with practical expectation of what can be achieved
- Strong commitment to public health principles
- Strategic thinker
- Able to prioritise work, and work well against a background of change and uncertainty
- Adaptable to situations, can handle people of all capabilities and attitudes
- Commitment to team-working, and respect and consideration for the skills of others
Desirable criteria
- Budget management skills
- Ability to speak Welsh
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jinette Parry
- Job title
- Business Support Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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