Senior Public Health Research and Evaluation Officer

3 weeks ago


Cardiff, United Kingdom Public Health Wales NHS Trust Full time

Are you someone who is committed to building the evidence base for action in improving population health and health equity? Are you an experienced researcher interested in expanding your experience in policy and practice or someone looking for their first role?

We have roles at all levels and would be happy to consider a range of employment options including full or part time secondments from Higher Education or Research teams.

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

You will join the Health Improvement Division within Public Health Wales to drive forward an applied programme of public health evaluation (extending to policy and practice), providing specialist advice and expertise across the Division and delivering support to our external partners. You will advance specific projects, scoping, designing and delivering work to determine the impact of public health related policy initiatives, practice and interventions on health, including our whole systems approach to healthy weight generating actionable learning for the organisation and partners and delivering trusted and academically robust evidence to inform action across policy and/or practice agendas at local and national levels.

You will develop practice based evidence in real time in addition to working with external academic partners to plan and deliver longer term outcome based studies.

You will bring experience of working on evaluation of complex public health interventions and programmes. You will use excellent communication and influencing skills to building collaborative working relationships across organisational boundaries.

Public Health Wales is the National Public Health Institute in Wales. Our vision is 'Working to achieve a healthier future for Wales' where we play a pivotal role in driving improvements in population health and well-being, reducing health inequalities, improving healthcare outcomes, protecting the public and supporting the development of health in all policies across Wales.



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