Senior Workplace Health Adviser – Employer Capacity Building

Public Health Wales

The closing date is 06 May 2025

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for an exceptional candidate to join Public Health Wales as a Senior Workplace Health Adviser for the Healthy Working Wales team as part of the Health Improvement Division within Public Health Wales. This role will hold specific responsibility for development, implementation and quality assurance in relation to capacity building, including learning and development, to enable employers and their staff to gain knowledge and skills to deliver effective action to support employee health and wellbeing.

Main duties of the job

Healthy Working Wales is a Welsh Government funded programme working across Wales to support and encourage employers to create healthier workplaces through developing and sustaining environments, policies and activities that protect health and promote good health. The programme helps employers to achieve a range of positive business and organisational outcomes while also contributing to the health and wellbeing of the working age population in Wales.

The individual will lead the development and delivery of our training and capacity building activities, including a suite of new employer engagement opportunities such as webinars, a peer mentoring programme and accredited training programmes. They will provide specialist input into maximising the opportunities of digital delivery based on robust assessment of training needs and taking a quality improvement approach that prioritises and acts on feedback.

The ability and willingness to travel across Wales, including some overnight stays to support delivery, is essential to the role.

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

About us

We are Public Health Wales - the national public health organisation for Wales. Our purpose is 'working together for a healthier Wales'. We exist to help all people in Wales live longer, healthier lives. With our partners, we aim to increase healthy life expectancy, improve health and well-being, and reduce inequalities for everyone in Wales, now and for future generations.

Together, our teams work to prevent disease, protect health, and provide leadership, specialist services and public health expertise. We are the main source of public health information, research and innovation in Wales. Never more has public health been so important as we come through the Coronavirus pandemic, face the challenges of the cost-of-living crisis and tackle and prevent the harmful effects of climate change.

Our organisation is guided by our Values, 'Working together, with trust and respect, to make a difference'. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that values equality, diversity and inclusion. We welcome applications which represent the rich diversity of the communities we serve and from those wishing to work part time or on a job share basis.

To find out more about working for us and the benefits we offer please visithttps://phw.nhs.wales/careers/

For guidance on the application process, please visithttps://phw.nhs.wales/working-for-us/applicant-information-and-guidance/

Date posted

24 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,840 to £53,602 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

028-AC105-0425

Job locations

Capital Quarter 2,

Tyndall Street.

Cardiff

CF10 4BZ

Job description

Job 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.

Job description

Job 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

Educated to Masters level in a relevant subject or equivalent evidenced experience
OD Practitioner Qualification / CIPD Module or prepared to undertake

Experience

Essential

Experience of developing and implementing capacity building activities including training and development.
Experience of developing networks and empowering others to host/develop networks.
Demonstrable experience of leading or supporting work on employee health and wellbeing at a senior management level in one or more organisations

Skills

Essential

Well-developed ability to write and present highly complex information in the form of reports, policies and strategy documents to a publishable standard.
Knowledge of best practice in relation to people management.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Educated to Masters level in a relevant subject or equivalent evidenced experience
OD Practitioner Qualification / CIPD Module or prepared to undertake

Experience

Essential

Experience of developing and implementing capacity building activities including training and development.
Experience of developing networks and empowering others to host/develop networks.
Demonstrable experience of leading or supporting work on employee health and wellbeing at a senior management level in one or more organisations

Skills

Essential

Well-developed ability to write and present highly complex information in the form of reports, policies and strategy documents to a publishable standard.
Knowledge of best practice in relation to people management.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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