Consultant in Public Health Medicine / Consultant in Public Health

Job Overview

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 at the highest level including information, advice and support for population health.
• Contribute to the development of integrated partnership strategies (including leading the needs assessment component), working closely with local authorities.
• 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 primary, secondary and social care, and across sectors including local authorities, voluntary organisations.
• Develop and utilise information and intelligence systems to underpin public health action across disciplines and organisations, leading collation and interpretation of relevant data
• Actively work to reduce inequalities (tackle poverty) through strong and effective partnership working across the whole system
• Develop partnerships and influence all agencies to ensure the widest possible participation in improving health throughout the Health Board area and beyond
• Provide excellent public health advice and expertise to the Health Board
• Work closely with the senior leadership team within the Health Board to ensure public health support to all work (particularly needs assessment, service planning and delivery (including the public health element of delivery plans, quality and governance)
• Ensure that relevant local experience and expertise supports or drives national developments and vice versa.
  
  

Working for our organisation

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.

Hywel Dda University Health Board operates a bilingual policy. All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.

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