Health Inequalities Support Officer

Job summary

Join Public Health Wales as aHealth Inequalities Support Officerand help drive our organisational approach to reducing health inequalities. Based in the Policy and International Health Directorate, you'll coordinate cross-organisational activity, support stakeholder engagement, and contribute to impactful programme delivery. This is a great opportunity to work with senior leaders and make a real difference to health and well-being in Wales. We offer flexible working, excellent benefits, and a supportive, purpose-driven team.

In return, we offer great benefits including hybrid and flexible working, a fantastic NHS pension, excellent annual leave, cycle to work and car lease schemes, childcare voucher schemes, plus many more.

Public Health Wales works to achieve a healthier future for the people in Wales. If you are enthusiastic and motivated and want to make a difference to the people in Wales, then this is an exciting opportunity for you to join our highly talented, cross-functional, dynamic and friendly team

Main duties of the job

The role involves working closely with senior individuals across Public Health Wales. Key responsibilities include:

• Building trusted relationships with senior internal and external stakeholders, and maintaining a stakeholder analysis

• Managing an up-to-date action log and tracking progress

• Maintaining programme plans and gathering updates from internal and external projects

• Providing programme support, including financial and procurement tasks

• Supporting project management activities such as stakeholder mapping, maintaining RAID logs, and updating terms of reference for programme groups

• Coordinating meetings and workshops, including agendas, papers, and contributors

• Accurately recording discussions and clearly presenting outputs.

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

About us

We are Public Health Wales - the national public health agency in Wales. Our purpose is 'Working together for a healthier Wales'. We exist to help everyone in Wales live longer, healthier, happier lives. Together with our partners, we work to increase healthy life expectancy, improve health and well-being, and reduce inequalities for everyone in Wales, now and for future generations.

Our teams work to prevent disease, protect health, and provide leadership, specialist services and public health expertise. We are the leading source of public health information, research and innovation in Wales. In a world facing complex health challenges, our work has never been so important.

We are guided by our Values, 'Working together, with trust and respect, to make a difference'. We are committed to building an inclusive workplace that values equality and diversity. We welcome applications which represent the rich diversity of the communities we serve and are supportive of flexible working arrangements, including part time roles and job sharing.

To find out more about working for us and the benefits we offer please visit https://phw.nhs.wales/careers/

For guidance on the application process, please visithttps://phw.nhs.wales/working-for-us/applicant-information-and-guidance/