Public Health Evaluator - Health Information for Parents

Overview of the role:
Public Health Wales (Health Improvement Division) seeks to conduct a mixed-methods process evaluation to assess the dissemination, implementation, and utilisation of the "Every Child" parenting health information resources in Wales, specifically Booklet 1: Your Pregnancy and Birth and Booklet 2: Newborn to Age 2. The primary aim is to explore how Every Child Parent Health Information Resource (Booklets 1 & 2) have been implemented, disseminated, and utilised across Wales.

Expectant parents often seek credible information and support as they navigate early parenthood. Insights indicate a high demand for accessible, evidence-based health information in Wales. Every Child resource aligns with Welsh Government policy, providing essential information to support parents and health professionals across multiple phases, from pregnancy through early childhood. Every Child Health Information for Parents (booklets mentioned above) are distributed by NHS Midwives and Health Visitors at specific contact points with parents, across Wales.
The overarching aims of Every Child Health Information for Parents are to:

• Serve as a trusted health and well-being information source for expectant and new parents.
• Support health professionals and partners in delivering health promotion messages.
• Offer high-quality, accessible resources to a wide range of parents.

Key Deliverables:

• For a comprehensive evaluation, the successful candidate's key deliverables will include, but not be limited to:
• Lead the design of the fieldwork in line with the evaluation standards and best practice guidelines and approaches for process evaluation.
• Lead the recruitment and delivery of qualitative methods of data collection, including conducting a minimum of 7 semi-structured interviews with midwives and a minimum of 7 with health visitors, each representing a different Welsh health board.
• Lead the data analysis of qualitative fieldwork in line with the evaluation standards, best practice guidelines and application of qualitative analysis methods such as Thematic Analysis.
• Lead the analysis of qualitative and quantitative survey data.
• Ensure that governance and ethical guidelines are incorporated into evaluation processes and maintain all data following Data Protection Impact Agreement (DPIA) standards.
• Undertake data analysis and interpretation from across all data using appropriate methods.
• Integrate findings from multiple methods into a final technical report.
• Collaborate with the Public Health Wales project team in line with organisational governance.

It would be beneficial for the successful candidate to:

• A significant qualified background within Public Health, ideally childhood;
• Have an awareness of the landscape of parenting health information from conception through to the early years.
• Have an awareness of the political and health landscape in Wales.
• Have awareness/knowledge of the Welsh Language Legislation and its application in evaluation.
• Have the ability to commence activities early December 2024.

If you would be interested in this role, please email your CV to donna.larder@finegreen.co.uk