Job responsibilities
POST SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES
Provide public health expertise across all domains of public health taking on a defined
leadership portfolio; including the management and resource responsibilities aligned to
your lead area.
Connect with a wide range of stakeholders, through mature and strong relationships, to
fully exploit all opportunities for improving public health outcomes.
Use data, insight, and evidence in the development and implementation of robust
strategies for improving health and wellbeing ensuring qualitative and/or quantitative
measurements are in place to demonstrate improvements.
Develop and use information and intelligence systems to underpin public health action
across disciplines and organisations, including input to the production of the Joint
Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA), surveillance, monitoring and evaluation of health
and wellbeing in Wigan.
Effectively communicate complex concepts and data and their implications for local
communities, to a range of stakeholders with very different backgrounds, providing written
and verbal briefings, reports and presentations when required.
Contribute to public health research, and/or commission research audits/projects, and/or
undertake research or audit and participate in and influence relevant research networks
so that the research needs of Wigan are considered.
Work with UKHSA and other partners to ensure local communities are protected from
infectious disease threats (including food and water borne disease, pandemics, etc) and
environmental hazards and that health protecting activity (immunisation and screening,
sexual health) is effective.
Support the Councils statutory duties and response to external health threats and the
Emergency Response Plan under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and the Social Care
Act 2012, and any amendments.
Provide strategic support to the Director of Public Health and Assistant Director of Public
Health, to discharge the Councils statutory public health responsibilities, and deputise
when required.
Any other responsibilities and requirements that may arise according to the business
requirements of the department and Council, as determined by the DPH.
Strategic Leadership
Be an effective, courageous, and responsible advocate for improving health and advise Wigan
on its statutory public health obligations providing clear and evidence-based recommendations
and advice.
Work across the Council, and with a wide range of partners agencies and voluntary
organisations, taking a lead role for strategic public health input into the development,
implementation, and delivery of local strategies, developing inter-agency and interdisciplinary
strategic plans and programmes as well as influencing partnership boards to deliver key
outcomes for Wigan.
Support the Health and Wellbeing Board, and associated fora, to drive action and effectively
engage partners, to achieve greatest population impact whilst delivering its statutory duty to
promote integration for the benefit of local communities.
Be responsible for change and improvement, including the resolution of relevant operational
issues, ensuring that quality improvement (and clinical governance) programmes are an integral
component of the public health approach in Wigan.
Partnership Working
Develop strong relationships with a wide range of partners to influence policy and service delivery
that has greatest impact on population health.
Operate within a framework of partnerships, including Cabinet/Portfolio holders, Senior
Management Team, Local NHS bodies, the VCFSE, UKHSA, OHID, Health and Wellbeing
Board, Local Resilience Forum, NHS England, the public and the media, providing specialist
public health expertise and supporting strategy delivery.
Provide public health advice to relevant boards and committees including the Healthier Wigan
Partnership and associated forums, influencing the development and delivery of equitable, citizen
focussed and effective health and care services.
Positively engage with residents working with colleagues to develop an engagement and
communication approach that supports a culture of health and wellbeing.
Contribute to regional and national policy development through the Faculty of Public Health,
ADPH, the LGA, UKHSA and OHID.
Commissioning
Identify local priorities and support the planning and commissioning of interventions to improve
and protect the health and wellbeing of residents and which are responsive to the needs and
assets of the communities in Wigan specifically addressing demographic and geographic
inequalities in health outcomes over time.
Provide expert public health advice and leadership to support and inform an evidence-based
approach for commissioning and developing high quality, equitable services across a range of
organisations including voluntary, public, and private sector. This will include expertise in
evaluation and development of appropriate Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
Take responsibility for ensuring delivery of the public health mandated services, (statutory and
non-statutory) within your portfolio, so that they achieve positive outcomes for local people and
relevant outcome indicators. Ensure that service development and commissioning is based on
the core principles of accessibility, affordability, appropriateness, effectiveness, equity,
efficiency, quality, and need.
People and Resource Management
Deputise for the Assistant Director of Public and Director of Public Health, as required, and hold
senior management responsibility within the integrated Public Health function and wider Adults
Service Directorate.
Manage public health staff and ensure that they can influence to deliver public health outcomes,
providing line management, ensuring that the BeWigan behaviours are embedded. Participate in
and ensure all staff members engage in My Time and My Time Extra conversations.
Contribute to specialist public health workforce education and training and the broader
development of public health skills and knowledge across the organisation and partnership.
Be a delegated budget holder for all activities related to Wigan Council and monitor and
contribute to the formulation of department/programme budgets and financial incentives,
complying with the Councils standing orders and guidance.
Manage Council resources (People, property, information, and finance) imaginatively and
efficiently, delivering to agreed budget and income targets.
Seek out opportunities to secure additional funding, where possible, for the delivery of evidenced
based interventions that will address priorities.
Professional Obligations
Pursue a programme of CPD, in accordance with Faculty of Public Health requirements, or other
recognised body, and undertake revalidation, audit or other measures required to remain on the
GMC/GDC Specialist Register or the UK Public Health (Specialist) Register or other specialist
register as appropriate.
Practice in accordance with all relevant sections of the General Medical Councils Good Medical
Practice (if medically qualified) and the Faculty of Public Healths Good Public Health Practice
and carry out public health practice within the ethical framework of the health professions.
Foster scientific integrity, freedom of scientific publications, and freedom of debate on health
matters, and promote good governance and open government.
Demonstrate competence to deliver excellent education supervision, teaching, and training.
Contribute to medical professional leadership within the health system and to the training
programme for Foundation Year Doctors/Specialty Registrars as appropriate, and to the training
of practitioners and primary care professionals within the locality.
Take part in relevant on call arrangements for the Council, emergency planning and health
protection as appropriate.
