Senior Public Health Practitioner

3 weeks ago


Brecon, United Kingdom Powys Teaching Health Board Full time

This is a senior public health practitioner role in the Powys Public Health team to drive forward the implementation of a systems-wide approach to obesity prevention in Powys.

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 public health/health promotion programmes and support community health development approaches and initiatives to address health inequalities with a particular emphasis on systems working for obesity prevention. 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 whole systems approach to health weight action plan.

This post is a fixed term secondment until 31 March 2025. Please ensure that your line manager/current employer would support a secondment before applying.

Interviews 16th February 2024

The post-holder will have a senior role in the local implementation in Powys of the national obesity strategy Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales using a whole system approach. The main duties of the job will include:
Collaborative working for health.

Leadership and collaborative working with strategic partners.

Developing health programmes and services to improve health outcomes and reduce health inequalities.

Promoting and protecting the population’s health and wellbeing.

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.

Implementation of the whole system approach to healthy weight programme in Powys using the nine-step methodology developed by Public Health Wales. In Powys, the whole system approach to healthy weight programme has been agreed as one of the Public Service Board's priorities and this work is currently focused on "children, families and access to healthy food". Within this priority area, partners have identified “breastfeeding”, “introduction to solid food (weaning)”, “cooking skills” and “affordability of healthy food” as areas for specific focus. The post-holder will have a key role in developing and supporting partnership working on the whole system approach to healthy weight and will have a lead role in driving forward specific areas of work within this programme.

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

Developing and implementing policy and strategy including working with stakeholders to agree and implement strategic partnership action plans as part of the delivery of the whole system approach to healthy weight in Powys.

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

Taking a lead role in the delivery of the public health team's healthy weight work. This will include:

- taking a lead role in planning and implementing the whole system approach to healthy weight work in Powys.
- leading on the development and implementation of interventions that contribute towards the promotion of healthy weight focusing on children, families, healthy eating and access to healthy food.
- providing support and public health advice to the health board in relation to work to develop weight management pathways in Powys.
- 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.
- managing staff withi



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