Job summary
Big Public Health challenges. Bold leadership role. From climate resilience to healthy ageing - lead transformative change in beautiful West Wales.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Consultant in Public Health Medicine / Consultant in Public Health to join Hywel Dda University Health Board's Public Health Directorate, serving the communities of Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, and Pembrokeshire.
This is your chance to lead on some of the most important issues in public health - the health impacts of climate change, and the urgent need to improve chronic disease pathways for an ageing population. You'll be central to shaping system-wide strategy, workforce development, and service transformation, embedding prevention and equity into everything we do.
You'll work closely with the Executive Director of Public Health and senior leaders across the Health Board, while also contributing to national workstreams. The role requires strategic thinking, political skill, and the ability to influence across boundaries.
Whether you're a new CCT holder ready to make a difference from day one, or an experienced consultant seeking greater scope and impact, this post offers challenge, profile, and support.
You'll also benefit from living and working in one of the most beautiful parts of Wales - with national parks, coastlines, vibrant communities, and flexible working arrangements that support a healthy work-life balance.
Main duties of the job
The Consultant in Public Health Medicine/Consultant in Public Health will:
Provide public health leadership, advice, and support to improve population health outcomes.
Develop partnerships and influence agencies for broad participation in health improvement initiatives.
Work to reduce inequalities through effective local and regional partnerships and community engagement.
Contribute to developing integrated strategies and needs assessments with local authorities and the voluntary sector.
Take responsibility for policies, programmes, services, projects, and interagency plans to deliver public health priorities.
Plan and develop high-quality, equitable services within evidence-based and ethical frameworks across primary and secondary healthcare, and social care.
Utilise information and intelligence systems to support public health actions across disciplines and organisations.
Collaborate with the senior leadership team of the Health Board to support public health priorities through needs assessment, service planning, improvement, and governance activities.
Provide local leadership to enable national public health developments.
About us
Hywel Dda University Health Board is the planner and provider of NHS healthcare services for people in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and its bordering counties. Our 12,000 members of staff provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services for around 384,000 people across a quarter of the landmass of Wales. We do this in partnership with our three local authorities and public, private and third sector colleagues, including our volunteers, through:
Four main hospitals: Bronglais General in Aberystwyth, Glangwili General in Carmarthen, Prince Philip in Llanelli and Withybush General in Haverfordwest;
Seven community hospitals: Amman Valley and Llandovery in Carmarthenshire; Tregaron, Aberaeron and Cardigan in Ceredigion; and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire Hospital Health and Social Care Resource Centre in Pembrokeshire;
47 general practices (6 of which are managed practices), 45 dental practices (including 4 orthodontic), 96 community pharmacies, 44 general ophthalmic practices (43 providing Eye Health Examination Wales and 34 low vision services) and 17 domiciliary only providers and 11 health centres;
Numerous locations providing mental health and learning disabilities services;
Highly specialised and tertiary services commissioned by the Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee, a joint committee representing seven health boards across Wales.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full details of the role requirements please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for this vacancy.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full details of the role requirements please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for this vacancy.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Education
Essential
- Inclusion in the GMC Full and Specialist Register with a license to practice/GDC Specialist List (or be eligible for registration within six months of interview) or Inclusion in the UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialists (or be eligible for registration within six months of interview). If included in the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List in a specialty other than public health medicine/dental public health, candidates must have equivalent training and/or appropriate experience of public health practice.
- Public health specialty registrar applicants who are not yet on the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List in dental public health/UKPHR must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they are within 6 months of gaining entry at the date of interview; all other applicants must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they have applied for inclusion in the GMC/GDC/UKPHR specialist registers.
- If an applicant is UK trained in Public Health, they must ALSO be a holder of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), or be within six months of award of CCT by date of interview If an applicant is non-UK trained, they will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT.
- Applicants must meet minimum CPD requirements (i.e. be up to date) in accordance with Faculty of Public Health requirements or other recognised body.
- MFPH by examination, by exemption or by assessment
Desirable
- Masters in Public Health or equivalent.
Knowledge
Essential
- In depth understanding of the health and care system and the relationships with both local national government.
- In depth understanding of the health and care system and the relationships with both local national government.
- Strong and demonstrable understanding of interfaces between health, social care and key partners (dealing with wider determinants of health).
- Understanding of the public sector duty and the inequality duty and their application to public health practice.
- High level of understanding of epidemiology and statistics, public health practice, health promotion, health economics and health care evaluation.
- Understanding of social and political environment.
Skills
Essential
- Strategic thinker with proven leadership skills and operational nous.
- Able to demonstrate and motivate organisations to contribute to improving the public's health and wellbeing through mainstream activities and within resources
- Ability to lead and manage the response successfully in unplanned and unforeseen circumstances.
- Ability to work to tight deadlines with competing demands and consistently deliver on time
- Ability to formulate long -term strategic plans, involving uncertainty, may impact across whole organisation.
- Analytical skills able to utilize both qualitative (including health economics) and quantitative information.
- Ability to design, develop, interpret and implement strategies and policies.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills (including dealing with the media).
- Effective interpersonal, motivational and influencing skills. Good presentational skills (oral and written).
- Sensible negotiator with practical expectation of what can be achieved.
- Substantially numerate, with highly developed analytical skills using qualitative and quantitative data.
- Computer literate with well developed skills in Microsoft Office suite, use of MS Teams etc.
- Ability to design, develop, interpret and implement policies.
- Ability to concentrate for long periods (e.g. analyses, media presentations).
- Resource management skills
Research
Essential
- Experience and knowledge of critical appraisal of evidence so as to improve clinical outcomes
Desirable
- Evidence of initiating, progressing and concluding research projects with publication
- Research degree
Teaching
Essential
- Evidence of organising programmes and teaching medical students and junior doctors, or equivalent.
- Willingness to teach all grades of professional multidisciplinary staff
Desirable
- Organisation of further teaching programmes in medical education
- Training and mentoring skills
Experience
Essential
- Delivery of successful change and project management programmes across organizational boundaries.
- Experience of using complex information to explain public health issues to a range of audiences.
- Significant experience of working at senior level in a large complex organisation.
- Excellent staff and corporate management and development skill.
- Experience of working in complex political and social environments.
- Experience of delivering across organisational boundaries
- Demonstrable proof of success in a similar role
- Demonstration of transforming services or significant service re-design and change
Desirable
- Media experience demonstrating delivery of effective health behaviour or health promotion messages.
- Scientific publications, presentation of papers at forums such as conferences, seminars.
- Budget management skills.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Education
Essential
- Inclusion in the GMC Full and Specialist Register with a license to practice/GDC Specialist List (or be eligible for registration within six months of interview) or Inclusion in the UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialists (or be eligible for registration within six months of interview). If included in the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List in a specialty other than public health medicine/dental public health, candidates must have equivalent training and/or appropriate experience of public health practice.
- Public health specialty registrar applicants who are not yet on the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List in dental public health/UKPHR must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they are within 6 months of gaining entry at the date of interview; all other applicants must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they have applied for inclusion in the GMC/GDC/UKPHR specialist registers.
- If an applicant is UK trained in Public Health, they must ALSO be a holder of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), or be within six months of award of CCT by date of interview If an applicant is non-UK trained, they will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT.
- Applicants must meet minimum CPD requirements (i.e. be up to date) in accordance with Faculty of Public Health requirements or other recognised body.
- MFPH by examination, by exemption or by assessment
Desirable
- Masters in Public Health or equivalent.
Knowledge
Essential
- In depth understanding of the health and care system and the relationships with both local national government.
- In depth understanding of the health and care system and the relationships with both local national government.
- Strong and demonstrable understanding of interfaces between health, social care and key partners (dealing with wider determinants of health).
- Understanding of the public sector duty and the inequality duty and their application to public health practice.
- High level of understanding of epidemiology and statistics, public health practice, health promotion, health economics and health care evaluation.
- Understanding of social and political environment.
Skills
Essential
- Strategic thinker with proven leadership skills and operational nous.
- Able to demonstrate and motivate organisations to contribute to improving the public's health and wellbeing through mainstream activities and within resources
- Ability to lead and manage the response successfully in unplanned and unforeseen circumstances.
- Ability to work to tight deadlines with competing demands and consistently deliver on time
- Ability to formulate long -term strategic plans, involving uncertainty, may impact across whole organisation.
- Analytical skills able to utilize both qualitative (including health economics) and quantitative information.
- Ability to design, develop, interpret and implement strategies and policies.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills (including dealing with the media).
- Effective interpersonal, motivational and influencing skills. Good presentational skills (oral and written).
- Sensible negotiator with practical expectation of what can be achieved.
- Substantially numerate, with highly developed analytical skills using qualitative and quantitative data.
- Computer literate with well developed skills in Microsoft Office suite, use of MS Teams etc.
- Ability to design, develop, interpret and implement policies.
- Ability to concentrate for long periods (e.g. analyses, media presentations).
- Resource management skills
Research
Essential
- Experience and knowledge of critical appraisal of evidence so as to improve clinical outcomes
Desirable
- Evidence of initiating, progressing and concluding research projects with publication
- Research degree
Teaching
Essential
- Evidence of organising programmes and teaching medical students and junior doctors, or equivalent.
- Willingness to teach all grades of professional multidisciplinary staff
Desirable
- Organisation of further teaching programmes in medical education
- Training and mentoring skills
Experience
Essential
- Delivery of successful change and project management programmes across organizational boundaries.
- Experience of using complex information to explain public health issues to a range of audiences.
- Significant experience of working at senior level in a large complex organisation.
- Excellent staff and corporate management and development skill.
- Experience of working in complex political and social environments.
- Experience of delivering across organisational boundaries
- Demonstrable proof of success in a similar role
- Demonstration of transforming services or significant service re-design and change
Desirable
- Media experience demonstrating delivery of effective health behaviour or health promotion messages.
- Scientific publications, presentation of papers at forums such as conferences, seminars.
- Budget management skills.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
