Job summary
- Main area
- Public Health
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
- Job ref
- 110-AC248-0624
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Glanrhyd Hospital
- Town
- Bridgend
- Salary
- £44,398 - £50,807 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/07/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 25/07/2024
Employer heading
Senior Health Protection Practitioner
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 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
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. You will be a Senior Practitioner in a new strategic Health Protection Team which sits within the wider Public Health Team and will work closely with the CTM Health Protection Service that is delivered across the Health Board and Local Authorities in partnership.
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 new Health Protection Service will work in partnership with other agencies including the Local Authorities and Public Health Wales to respond to emerging and existing health protection threats as required. Areas of work will include:
· Pandemic Planning
· Responding to infectious disease outbreaks
· National elimination programmes for blood borne virus and tuberculosis
· Screening of populations most at risk from specific diseases
· Immunisations and vaccinations support
· Prison health
· Antimicrobial resistance
· Environmental health threats
· Addressing health inequalities in health protection response
· Support to emergency planning including CBRN incidents
· Delivery of training in health protection to staff and volunteers
It is envisaged that if successful you will be asked to focus on defined areas of work.
The successful candidate will support the implementation and delivery of health protection programmes and responses in a range of different settings and with identified target groups in line with key local priorities, contributing to a healthier, happier and more active families in Cwm Taf Morgannwg. If you can demonstrate experience and interest in health protection work to date, then please consider applying.
The post will be based within one of the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board offices, to be discussed at interview.
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
- Masters or equivalent in Public Health/Health Promotion/Health Protection or allied discipline or equivalent professional qualification.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Evidence of continuing professional/personal development.
- Understanding of NHS/local government policy agenda and Public Health environment.
- Practical knowledge of public health practice, health protection and community development.
Desirable criteria
- Information management and an understanding of health related data and its interpretation.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Considerable experience in public health/health protection.
- Experience of working with communities.
- Experience of working across a number of organisations/sectors and/or with a number of programmes, including development, managing and evaluation of significant elements of work.
Desirable criteria
- Qualitative research methods.
- Policy development.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication and analytical skills.
- Ability to work successfully with diverse professional partners, and manage potentially conflicting perspectives.
- Data collection and analysis
- Ability to initiate and implement programmes that promote health and well-being.
- Management of meetings
- Multi-media presentation skills.
- Training skills including training needs analysis and evaluation
- IT skills.
Desirable criteria
- Project planning and management.
- Capacity building.
- Staff management and development.
- Information and knowledge management 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
- Email address
- [email protected]
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