Principal Public Health Practitioner

2 weeks ago


Brecon, United Kingdom Powys Teaching Health Board Full time

**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.



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