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Deputy Head of Research and Evaluation

Band 8b

Main area: Projects
Grade: Band 8b
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full Time 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 028-AC158-0619-B

Site: Cardiff
Town: Cardiff
Salary: £52,306 to £60,983 per annum
Closing: 11/12/2019 23:59
Interview date: 20/12/2019

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Are you a leader in public health research? Do you inspire and support others to get involved in research and evaluation activities? Do you want to generate the evidence needed to inform local and national decision making? If yes, then join our Research and Evaluation Division within Public Health Wales as the Deputy Head of Research and Evaluation. This is a new and exciting opportunity to make a difference, within a supportive policy and practice context for health with the Well-being of future Generations Act and A Healthier Wales.

As the Deputy Head of Research and Evaluation, you will provide the strategic leadership to drive forwards the implementation of the organisation’s Research and Evaluation Strategy. In this role, you will be identifying and fostering strategic partnerships with national and international organisations to strengthen public health research and evaluation in the NHS. You will lead the development of a multi-disciplinary team exploring the associations between health and wider societal factors, drawing on health and non-health data assets across Wales, supporting the evaluation of Public Health Wales programmes and addressing gaps in our knowledge to improve population health.

You will draw on your exceptional quantitative and/or qualitative research skills, proven leadership, and excellent stakeholder engagement skills to build effective partnerships across academia and others, to deliver highly impactful research and evaluation programmes. This is an excellent opportunity to lead, support and deliver research and evaluation to make a difference to the health of people in Wales.

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

Public Health Wales, reserves the right to close this vacancy early. We therefore encourage early applications. If you are successful and short listed for interview you will be contacted by email using the address with which you registered. Please ensure you check your email account regularly.

In submitting an application form, should you subsequently be appointed to the post applied for, you authorise Public Health Wales to obtain any previous NHS service details including all electronically held sickness information, via the Inter Authority Transfer process on the national Electronic Staff Record (ESR).

We are committed to fair, transparent recruitment and believe in equality of opportunity in our workplace and will not tolerate discrimination on grounds of age, disability, gender identity, religion or belief, race or nationality, marriage or civil partnership status, sex, sexual orientation, working pattern, caring responsibilities, trade union activity or political beliefs – or on any other grounds. We welcome applications from individuals who may wish to work part time or apply on a job share basis.

Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English. To support our all Wales service, we particularly welcome applications from Welsh speakers.

Applications from job seekers who require Tier 2 sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. However, non-EEA candidates may not be appointed to a post if a suitably qualified, experienced and skilled EU/EEA candidate is available to take up the post as the employing body is unlikely, in these circumstances, to satisfy the resident labour market test. UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) requires employers to complete this test to show that no suitably qualified EEA or EU worker can fill the post. For further information please visit the UKVI website

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Alisha Davies
Email: Alisha.Davies@wales.nhs.uk
Tel: 02920 104448

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