Principal Public Health Practitioner

4 weeks ago

Brecon, United Kingdom Powys Teaching Health Board Full time

This is a Principal public health practitioner role in the Powys Public Health team to drive forward the implementation of a systems-wide approach to health protection in Powys. They will have a good understanding of the principles of health protection and have experience of responding to outbreaks and wider threats.

The role involves working with specific target groups in a range of settings in partnership with local communities and partner organisations. This will include maintaining effective partnerships and networks with statutory, voluntary and private sector organisations at a local and regional level. The post-holder will provide specialist advice and support on the development of health protection and response programmes for the population of Powys. The post holder will be integral to addressing some of the recommendations in the recent Welsh Government health protection system review and support the implementation of the national health protection framework once published.

The post-holder will have a lead role in projects and programmes within the public health directorate's annual work plan focusing on driving forward the delivery of the health protection service.

Interviews ?? 2024

The post-holder will have a senior role in the newly established local health protection multi-disciplinary team in Powys. This role will work collaboratively across organisations to establish a local response for the health protection team which will work proactively to reduce the spread of infectious disease and can effectively respond to local incidents. The main duties of the job will include:
Collaborative working for health protection.
Leadership and collaborative working with strategic partners.
Promoting and protecting the population's health and wellbeing.
Developing health programmes and services to improve health outcomes, protect from harm and reduce health inequalities.
Undertake wider targeted health protection work for example, to support those seeking refuge in Wales, support messaging in schools, provide support to care homes, work on TB and Hepatitis elimination etc
Working with and for communities.
Policy and strategy development and implementation.
Strategic leadership for health.
Surveillance and assessment of the population's health and wellbeing.
Contributing to the delivery of the public health team's annual plan.

Being the smallest Heath Board in Wales means that you won’t get lost in the crowd. Everybody at Powys Teaching Health Board is valued for the contribution they make to our varied and diverse portfolio of community-based services. Together, we can continue to make a real difference to our patients and build on our unrivalled reputation.

As a supportive and progressive employer, we actively encourage you to carve out a career with us, through a range of development pathways. We’re also lucky enough to be situated in one of the most beautiful rural counties in Britain, let alone Wales Achieving a healthy ’life work’ balance is essential, and something we recognise by prioritising your well-being.

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

**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

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