Principal Public Health Practitioner - Health Protection

Job description

Job responsibilities

The main responsibilities of the job include:

Providing highly specialist advice and expertise on health protection policy and practice to individuals and organisations across all sectors, ensuring evidence-based action to reduce the incidence and prevent transmission of communicable disease.

Strategic leadership and collaborative working with strategic partners including the Powys Public Service Board and Powys Regional Partnership Board.

Developing local systems to collect, analyse, interpret, and disseminate a wide range of information on health protection.

Developing and implementing policy and strategy including working with stakeholders to agree and implement strategic partnership action plans.

Developing and implementing health programmes, interventions and services to improve health outcomes and reduce health inequalities in Powys.

Ensuring that the prevention/promotion/improvement agenda is in the forefront of key strategies and programmes that impact on the long-term health and wellbeing of the population.

Developing and maintain an overview of developments in knowledge and practice in health protection and identify opportunities to integrate these into practice.

Providing leadership and management for the public health, health protection team. This will include:

-leading the planning and activities to respond to an all hazards health protection approach and identify early threats from transmission of disease.

-leading on the development and implementation of interventions that contribute towards the promotion of health and the reduction of inequalities.

providing support and public health advice to the health board in relation to work in preventing, responding and manage health protection incidents.

direct line management of a Band 7 incident manager health protection.

-developing and implementing action plans, preparing and submitting high quality reports for a range of internal and external audiences, planning and chairing meetings and events, finding, assessing, analysing and interpreting data and evidence, attending and presenting at meetings and events including at strategic partnership level, engaging effectively with a range of stakeholders including senior strategic partners, evaluating interventions, and monitoring and reporting on progress.

As a senior member of the Powys local public health team, the post-holder will also be expected to contribute to the wider leadership and management of the public health team as a whole.

Person Specification

English

Essential

• Masters in Public Health/Health Promotion or allied discipline or equivalent professional qualification or equivalent demonstrable professional experience
• Evidence of continuing professional/personal development
• Understanding of determinants of health and health inequalities
• Significant experience in a senior role in Public Health / Health Promotion or a related field
• Substantial direct experience of working with diverse senior professional and managerial groups across a range of organisations and professional disciplines
• Track record of working in partnership arrangements
• Staff management and development experience
• Experience of leading, developing and implementing programmes and initiatives focussed on improving health outcomes and/or reducing health inequalities
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strategic and analytical thinker and planner
• Proven ability to work successfully with diverse professional partners across a range of organisations
• Ability to prioritise, plan and manage workload
• Clear understanding of project planning and management, including monitoring and evaluation of projects
• Information and knowledge management skills
• Ability to travel between sites in a timely manner to meet the needs of the service

Desirable

• Registered, or working towards registration, with the UK Public Health Register (Practitioner Registration)
• Up-to-date knowledge of developments in WG health related strategies
• Experience of working with the main partner organisations especially local government understanding the environmental and "political" context in which they operate
• Quantitative and/or qualitative research
• Team forming and building
• Ability to positively influence the actions of others

English

Essential

• Masters in Public Health/Health Promotion or allied discipline or equivalent professional qualification or equivalent demonstrable professional experience

English

Essential

• Experience of leading, developing and implementing programmes and initiatives focussed on improving health outcomes and/or reducing health inequalities

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Powys Teaching Health Board

Address

Bronllys

Public Health Dept, The Courtyard, Bronllys Hospital

Bronllys, near Brecon

LD3 0LE

Employer's website

https://pthb.nhs.wales/working-for-us/ (Opens in a new tab)