Job summary
Consultant in Public Health: Healthcare Public Health / Population Health
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Nottingham City Council
Full time substantive role
We have an exciting opportunity for a Consultant to join an established public health function within a large integrated Community, Mental Health and Forensic NHS Foundation Trust working jointly with the public health department of Nottingham City Council.
Main duties of the job
The role will combine generic public health work in the Local Authority (2 days) with a Trust role (3 days) leading on health inequalities and contributing to wider healthcare public health work. This post will also focus on areas of shared interest in mental health. There will be an emphasis on healthcare public health but also the opportunity to pursue a wide range of core public health roles across both organisations.
There are exciting opportunities to work across our local system, leading and contributing to work at Local Authority, ICS and Place Based Partnership level.
The postholder will be supported by the Director of Public Health, the Trust's Medical Directorate (Population Health Unit led by the Associate Medical Director/CPH) and their teams. We are also formal public health training locations and there are opportunities as an Educational Supervisor and to be part of the very active and supportive local Nottinghamshire training network.
The successful candidate will be passionate about making a difference for local people through both wider determinants and healthcare.
The post will be available from September 2024, but we are prepared to wait for the right candidate.
Interested applicants are welcome to contact :
Dr Chris Packham, Associate Medical Director, Notts Healthcare NHS FT or Janet Kelly on 0115 9691300 x 15672 & Ms Lucy Hubber, Director of Public Health, Nottingham City Council
About us
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.
If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!
#TeamNottsHC
Job description
Job responsibilities
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- Support the public health function of Nottingham City Council
- Supporting analysis of Trust healthcare data to support implementation and development of a broad range outcomes measures and indicators, including clinical and patient-reported outcome measures and systems to monitor and learn from adverse events, such as patient deaths.
- Support for reducing inappropriate clinical variation, including equity of access to Trust services as part of reducing Health Inequalities.
- Using data on our patient population in planning and day to day operations as required.
- Working with evolving health system wide plans (e.g. ICS and PBPs) and transformation work including population health management and risk stratification skills.
- The further development and implementation of the Trusts prevention framework and our approach to tackling health inequalities.
- Areas of system working where the Trust has a particular interest, including in relation to improving outcomes for people experiencing Severe and Multiple Disadvantage.
- Supporting the intelligent use of national, regional and local benchmarking and variation information to improve clinical management
- Support the City Council and Trust specialist training functions and locations for public health.
- Other Consultant level functions as required.
Job description
Job responsibilities
-
- Support the public health function of Nottingham City Council
- Supporting analysis of Trust healthcare data to support implementation and development of a broad range outcomes measures and indicators, including clinical and patient-reported outcome measures and systems to monitor and learn from adverse events, such as patient deaths.
- Support for reducing inappropriate clinical variation, including equity of access to Trust services as part of reducing Health Inequalities.
- Using data on our patient population in planning and day to day operations as required.
- Working with evolving health system wide plans (e.g. ICS and PBPs) and transformation work including population health management and risk stratification skills.
- The further development and implementation of the Trusts prevention framework and our approach to tackling health inequalities.
- Areas of system working where the Trust has a particular interest, including in relation to improving outcomes for people experiencing Severe and Multiple Disadvantage.
- Supporting the intelligent use of national, regional and local benchmarking and variation information to improve clinical management
- Support the City Council and Trust specialist training functions and locations for public health.
- Other Consultant level functions as required.
Person Specification
Qualifications/Education
Essential
- Inclusion in the GMC Full and Specialist Register with a license to practice/GDC Specialist List or inclusion in the UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialists at the point of application.
- 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.
- MFPH by examination, by exemption or by assessment, or equivalanet
Desirable
- Masters in Public Health or equivalent.
Knowledge
Essential
- 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.
- In depth knowledge of methods of developing clinical quality assurance, quality improvement, evaluations and evidence based public health practice.
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.
- Analytical skills able to utilise both qualitative (including health economics) and quantitative information.
Experience
Essential
- Delivery of successful change management programmes across organisational boundaries.1
- Experience of using complex information to explain public health issues to a range of audiences.
Desirable
- Media experience demonstrating delivery of effective health behaviour or health promotion messages.
Person Specification
Qualifications/Education
Essential
- Inclusion in the GMC Full and Specialist Register with a license to practice/GDC Specialist List or inclusion in the UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialists at the point of application.
- 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.
- MFPH by examination, by exemption or by assessment, or equivalanet
Desirable
- Masters in Public Health or equivalent.
Knowledge
Essential
- 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.
- In depth knowledge of methods of developing clinical quality assurance, quality improvement, evaluations and evidence based public health practice.
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.
- Analytical skills able to utilise both qualitative (including health economics) and quantitative information.
Experience
Essential
- Delivery of successful change management programmes across organisational boundaries.1
- Experience of using complex information to explain public health issues to a range of audiences.
Desirable
- Media experience demonstrating delivery of effective health behaviour or health promotion messages.
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).
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).
