Deputy Director of Public Health/Consultant

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional health authority in Cardiff is seeking a Deputy Director of Public Health. The role involves leading public health initiatives, developing local policies, and ensuring effective cross-cultural communication. Candidates should possess strong leadership and advocacy skills, along with relevant public health qualifications. The position offers a chance to make a significant impact on community health in the Vale of Glamorgan and Cardiff, while fostering partnerships to improve health outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience in public health leadership and advocacy.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Familiarity with evidence-based planning.

Responsibilities

• Provide public health leadership and advice.
• Develop local policies and interagency plans.
• Lead initiatives to improve health outcomes.

Skills

Leadership in public health

Negotiation skills

Flexibility

Cultural understanding

Planning and development

Education

Relevant public health qualifications

Job description

Position

This is a replacement post for a Deputy Director of Public Health / Consultant in Public Health / PHMedicine working as part of the Local Public Health Team in Cardiff and Vale University Health Board. The team is currently based in Woodland House, Llanishen, Cardiff.

The postholder will be expected to cope with multiple and changing demands, meet tight deadlines, and demonstrate high levels of intellectual rigour, negotiation and motivation skills, flexibility, tact and diplomacy, and an ability to understand other cultures to enable effective working across organisational boundaries and influencing without authority.

Responsibilities

• Provide public health leadership, advice and support to the locality areas within Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan
• Contribute to the development of integrated partnership strategies
• Take responsibility for developing local policies, interagency and interdisciplinary plans and programmes to deliver key public health targets
• Provide expert public health advice and leadership to support and inform an evidence based approach within ethical frameworks for planning and developing high quality equitable services across the whole system and across organisations
• Provide public health input to transformational programmes, for example whole system developments and strategy for immunisation, and approaches to working with our local ethnic minority communities
• Develop proficiency in the active use of behavioural change evidence and methodology to support health improvement
• Develop an expertise in active network development to enable health improvement
• Actively work to reduce health inequalities working in partnership with others
• Deliver programmes of work in partnership, to improve population health, for example providing strategic leadership to improving immunisation uptake rates in the Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan population

Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh. Any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.

The UHB reserves the right to close this vacancy after 24 hours if a large number of suitable applications are received. Therefore, we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post.

Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa, unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply should self‑assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship by visiting Work in the UK. If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.

Willingness to speak Welsh is desirable; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Organisation

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 16,000 staff and providing over 100 specialist services. Serving a population of around 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, we are focussed on the health and care needs of our local population whilst also working with our partners to develop regional services. Together we are committed to improving health outcomes for everyone and to delivering excellent care and support.

Our mission is "Living Well, Caring Well, Working Together". We have recently refreshed our strategy, Shaping Our Future Wellbeing, which sets out the Health Board's Vision for improving the health and wellbeing of the populations we serve by 2035 through the delivery of our strategic objectives: putting people first, providing outstanding quality, delivering in the right places, and acting for the future. We aspire to deliver outstanding care and treatment for people when they need it, where they need it; care that compares well with the best in the world, but to do so we need to transform how we deliver services over the next decade and beyond.

Values

• We are kind and caring
• We are respectful
• We have trust and integrity
• We take personal responsibility

Our Region

Wales offers miles of stunning coastline, UNESCO world heritage sites and beautiful countryside. Cardiff, the thriving Welsh capital, has something for everyone. It is a fantastic city to live and work in with an abundance of sports, arts and cultural attractions. Situated to the west of Cardiff, the Vale of Glamorgan offers a combination of beautiful Welsh countryside and a dramatic natural coastline, as well as charming towns including Penarth and Cowbridge. Those seeking more culture may find themselves drawn to the National Museum, St Fagan's Museum of Welsh Life or the Millennium Centre, home of the Welsh National Opera. Whether city life or rural living, Cardiff and the Vale offers the best of both worlds.