Job summary
We are looking for a clinician (from medical, nursing or AHP background) with a strong interest and experience in population health approaches to help transform healthcare for the future. The Health Inequality Fellow will work closely with clinicians to provide support, training and advice to develop key areas for investigation and use population health data to define their key questions and shape local interventions on the ground. We are therefore looking for candidates with a keen interest in developing their population health competencies to inform key-decision making and improve health outcomes for the population.
PLEASE NOTE: This post will be available on NHS payscale and the medical and dental payscale.
Fellow(s) will be based, for up to three days a week, with the Lewisham Population Health and Care programme team and having prior knowledge of Lewisham's landscape and its demographics would be a benefit. They will be supported by a suitable senior manager or population health advisor during their placement.
Key areas of work that we expect the Fellow to focus on will include:
- Supporting elective recovery and reducing health inequalities
- Improving data quality for protected characteristics and other vulnerable groups
- Core20PLUS5
- Other Lewisham system priorities, including supporting prevention and wellbeing, children and young people and mental health for all
Main duties of the job
- To agree the rationale and drivers for exploring population health ideas/ problem statements
- To establish how our information system (HealtheIntent) could support local work and translate data into actionable insights
- To engage with clinical leads to set up and lead any working groups required to drive forward and manage the projects
- To agree the characteristics and activity to case-find patients
- To agree what the expected outcomes would be for projects
- To support the development of a dashboard (or other tools if required) for end-users to support case-finding based on the above criteria
- To agree the relevant interventions with colleagues based on the areas where the data suggests there is room for improvement
- Facilitate MDT discussions as required
- To agree how to realise benefits and monitor those benefits
- To agree how they would embed the work as BAU
- To present project(s) as and when requested
- To consider wider dissemination of their project(s) through write-ups or sharing with other partners
About us
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is a community focused provider of local and acute care, providing high quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley. With a turnover of around £700 million, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham and a range of community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.
As an organisation, we've made significant improvements for patients and staff in the last two and-a-half years. This is reflected in our most recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection (from February 2020), which found improvements across the organisation and gave us an improved rating of "Good" in the Well-Led and Effective domains, in addition to the rating of "Good" that we had already achieved in the Caring domain. Our staff culture change programme has been key to the Trust's improvement journey, as we've stabilised our workforce by reducing vacancy rates and improving staff retention. We've also significantly increased the representation of minority ethnic leaders across our clinical and corporate teams.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- The post-holder will lead and contribute to the delivery of high-quality care with an interest in acquiring a population health approach to help transform healthcare for the future
- The post-holder will be required to ensure effective partnership working with stakeholders to ensure timely responses and the delivery of project aims and outcomes
- The post-holder will be required to work to tight deadlines and produce high quality and accurate results
- Be able to work on own initiative and prioritise work
- The post-holder must have the ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing at all levels and be able to respond and perform under continuous pressure.
- The role requires the post-holder to be highly skilled in project management and administrative duties, to be versatile and deal with difficult situations
- To have a good general knowledge of the technical requirements of the systems used in primary and secondary care and be able to relay detailed information of a technical nature to both internal and external personnel
The post-holder will work closely with Lewisham Population Health and Care team, as well as wider stakeholders to develop projects. Organisations include:
- Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust (LGT)
- London Borough of Lewisham (LBL)
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM)
- One Health Lewisham (OHL GP federation including all practices in Lewisham)
- Cerner (PH&C system provider)
- South East London Integrated Care System (SEL ICS)
- Clinical fellows, including SPIN and GP fellows
- Lewisham Health Equity Fellows
- Clinical leads across acute and primary care
- Nursing staff
- Allied Health Professionals
- Consultants
- Service Management Teams
- We are establishing a community of practice for our fellows to support collaboration and spread best practice
Job description
Job responsibilities
- The post-holder will lead and contribute to the delivery of high-quality care with an interest in acquiring a population health approach to help transform healthcare for the future
- The post-holder will be required to ensure effective partnership working with stakeholders to ensure timely responses and the delivery of project aims and outcomes
- The post-holder will be required to work to tight deadlines and produce high quality and accurate results
- Be able to work on own initiative and prioritise work
- The post-holder must have the ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing at all levels and be able to respond and perform under continuous pressure.
- The role requires the post-holder to be highly skilled in project management and administrative duties, to be versatile and deal with difficult situations
- To have a good general knowledge of the technical requirements of the systems used in primary and secondary care and be able to relay detailed information of a technical nature to both internal and external personnel
The post-holder will work closely with Lewisham Population Health and Care team, as well as wider stakeholders to develop projects. Organisations include:
- Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust (LGT)
- London Borough of Lewisham (LBL)
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM)
- One Health Lewisham (OHL GP federation including all practices in Lewisham)
- Cerner (PH&C system provider)
- South East London Integrated Care System (SEL ICS)
- Clinical fellows, including SPIN and GP fellows
- Lewisham Health Equity Fellows
- Clinical leads across acute and primary care
- Nursing staff
- Allied Health Professionals
- Consultants
- Service Management Teams
- We are establishing a community of practice for our fellows to support collaboration and spread best practice
Person Specification
Academic
Essential
- Master's degree or equivalent experience in any clinical field
- Evidence of demonstrable interest in population health, its scientific research and evidence-based practice
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Additional qualifications (e.g., degrees and postgraduate qualifications)
- Conference participation and/or presentations
- Has contributed to research
- Academic publications (e.g., peer reviewed journals, abstracts, posters, book chapters)
Experience
Essential
- Registered healthcare professional with experience of providing NHS services
- Leadership responsibility in current role
- Currently working in an NHS health services role relevant to population health
- Contribution to delivery of high-quality care (e.g., supporting clinical services, experience of clinical audit cycles, delivering interventions to improve outcomes, public/patient involvement, quality improvement)
- Evidence of satisfactory career progression
Desirable
- Can evidence contribution to successful service improvement (e.g., achieving service change, Trust level awards, HSJ/BMJ awards, etc.)
Skills
Essential
- Demonstrates strong oral and written communication skills
- Effective team player
- Data-analysis: able to understand and manipulate data (including familiarisation with statistics/charts and word processing packages) and draw insights
- Able to search for and critically review literature Organisational skills, including time management and project completion
- Delivered presentations to a large audience
Desirable
- Evidence of innovation and solution development
Understanding
Essential
- Sound knowledge of the English healthcare system (i.e., service provision, research, education, primary and secondary care, etc), its current challenges and future national policy direction
- Strong interest in population health approaches and health inequalities in England
Desirable
- Awareness of the top priorities for the NHS
- Understanding of epidemiology, health promotion and disease prevention
- Knowledge of Lewisham population and its demographics
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Proven self-confidence and ability to confidently state own position on issues
- Takes initiative and uses own judgement in anticipating and dealing with queries and problems
- Motivation - driven by a genuine interest and concern for the quality and appropriateness of patient services
- Strong sense of commitment to openness, honesty and integrity in undertaking the role
- Ability to establish and maintain positive working relationships with colleagues at all levels of the organisation
- Flexibility - adapts to ensure achievement of objectives within constantly changing situations and environments.
Person Specification
Academic
Essential
- Master's degree or equivalent experience in any clinical field
- Evidence of demonstrable interest in population health, its scientific research and evidence-based practice
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Additional qualifications (e.g., degrees and postgraduate qualifications)
- Conference participation and/or presentations
- Has contributed to research
- Academic publications (e.g., peer reviewed journals, abstracts, posters, book chapters)
Experience
Essential
- Registered healthcare professional with experience of providing NHS services
- Leadership responsibility in current role
- Currently working in an NHS health services role relevant to population health
- Contribution to delivery of high-quality care (e.g., supporting clinical services, experience of clinical audit cycles, delivering interventions to improve outcomes, public/patient involvement, quality improvement)
- Evidence of satisfactory career progression
Desirable
- Can evidence contribution to successful service improvement (e.g., achieving service change, Trust level awards, HSJ/BMJ awards, etc.)
Skills
Essential
- Demonstrates strong oral and written communication skills
- Effective team player
- Data-analysis: able to understand and manipulate data (including familiarisation with statistics/charts and word processing packages) and draw insights
- Able to search for and critically review literature Organisational skills, including time management and project completion
- Delivered presentations to a large audience
Desirable
- Evidence of innovation and solution development
Understanding
Essential
- Sound knowledge of the English healthcare system (i.e., service provision, research, education, primary and secondary care, etc), its current challenges and future national policy direction
- Strong interest in population health approaches and health inequalities in England
Desirable
- Awareness of the top priorities for the NHS
- Understanding of epidemiology, health promotion and disease prevention
- Knowledge of Lewisham population and its demographics
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Proven self-confidence and ability to confidently state own position on issues
- Takes initiative and uses own judgement in anticipating and dealing with queries and problems
- Motivation - driven by a genuine interest and concern for the quality and appropriateness of patient services
- Strong sense of commitment to openness, honesty and integrity in undertaking the role
- Ability to establish and maintain positive working relationships with colleagues at all levels of the organisation
- Flexibility - adapts to ensure achievement of objectives within constantly changing situations and environments.
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
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).
