Senior Health Protection Practitioner (EPRR)

The new Health Protection Service will work in partnership with other agencies including the Local Authorities and Public Health Wales to respond to emerging and existing health protection threats as required. Areas of work will include:
· Pandemic Planning
· Addressing health inequalities in health protection response
· Support to emergency planning including CBRN incidents
· Responding to infectious disease outbreaks
· National elimination programmes for blood borne virus and tuberculosis
· Screening of populations most at risk from specific diseases
· Immunisations and vaccinations support
· Prison health
· Antimicrobial resistance
· Environmental health threats
· Delivery of training in health protection to staff and volunteers
The successful candidate will support the implementation and delivery of health protection programmes and responses with a focus on emergency preparedness and prevention. And with identified target groups in line with key local priorities, contributing to healthier, happier and more active families in Cwm Taf Morgannwg. If you can demonstrate experience and interest in emergency preparedness, resilience and response or health protection work to date, then please consider applying.
The post will be based within one of the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board offices, to be discussed at interview.

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and well-motivated professional with emergency preparedness or health protection experience. You will be a Senior Practitioner with a focus on Emergency Preparedness in a new Health Protection Strategic Team which sits within the wider Public Health Team and work closely with the Health Board's Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response Manager and wider NHS Wales EPRR colleagues. You will be a key member of the CTM Health Protection services that work across the Health Board and Local Authorities. You will be joining our growing Public Health Team in Cwm Taf Morgannwg, working across the three counties of Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
+ We listen, learn and improve
+ We treat everyone with respect
+ We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

Band 7
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales's capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed