Job summary
The North East & North Cumbria (NENC) Integrated Care System (ICS) are seeking to recruit a Public Health Practitioner on a 2-year secondment/fixed term contract working across the North East & North Cumbria region. Working as part of a small specialist team responsible for the NENC ICS Population Health & Prevention Board priorities pertaining to maternity and 1001 critical days, the role aims to sustain preventative health practices, improve maternity safety, improve service user experiences and decrease neonatal admissions, stillbirths and sudden infant deaths.
This role will include specific support for all the NENC maternity units working with Heads of Midwifery and their staff to overcome local barriers to implementation to support the teams to embed population health priorities across the whole of the patch.
Main duties of the job
The Public Health Practitioner will be instrumental in embedding the NENC ICS Population Health & Prevention Board priorities for maternity and the first 1001 critical days. Working closely with the LMS, Heads of Midwifery, their staff, Maternity Voices Partnerships and all relevant stakeholders, the postholder will support local teams to overcome local barriers to implementation on improving outcomes aligned to the maternity prevention priorities. Subject to review these may include: tobacco, alcohol, breastfeeding, perinatal mental health (PMH), healthy weight, immunisations, making every contact count (MECC).
About us
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isnt, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read applicant guidance notes before submitting your application
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Provide and receive complex information; persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training skills are required.
- Leading the transformation in culture to ensure prevention is a high priority within all maternity units and associated local systems.
- Ability to operate autonomously as a professional.
- Ability to work at a strategic level with excellent communication and inter-personal skills.
- Experience of writing and presenting reports to managers.
- To have knowledge and understanding of confidential information management.
- Convene and co-chair meetings.
- An understanding and working knowledge of ICT and its application, in particular word processing and excel spreadsheets.
- Ensure appropriate records are kept and that these are available for audit purposes if necessary.
- To be able to provide advice on public health issues as required on behalf of the NENC ICS Population Health & Prevention board.
- Experience of working within a multidisciplinary system including the NHS, Local Authority and voluntary sector.
- To be able to identify, analyse and interpret information and act as an information resource to the NENC ICS Population Health & Prevention board.
- An understanding of the key issues and challenges in improving population health during the 1001 critical days period.
- Develop and implement long term plans and strategies across a range of agencies and community groups. Integration of policies and strategies /
- Self-motivated and able to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
- Provides highly specialised advice to maternity teams and wide range of stakeholders in respect of public health activities and evidence-based practice.
- Understanding of national, regional and local policy.
- Day to day supervision and line management of ICS Prevention in Maternity team.
- Teach/deliver specialist training as required.
- Allocates work to staff; provides a range of training for staff.
- Responsible for the recruitment & selection, appraisal and co-ordination of a group of public health staff; provides training in a range of public health areas.
See attached job description for further details.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Provide and receive complex information; persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training skills are required.
- Leading the transformation in culture to ensure prevention is a high priority within all maternity units and associated local systems.
- Ability to operate autonomously as a professional.
- Ability to work at a strategic level with excellent communication and inter-personal skills.
- Experience of writing and presenting reports to managers.
- To have knowledge and understanding of confidential information management.
- Convene and co-chair meetings.
- An understanding and working knowledge of ICT and its application, in particular word processing and excel spreadsheets.
- Ensure appropriate records are kept and that these are available for audit purposes if necessary.
- To be able to provide advice on public health issues as required on behalf of the NENC ICS Population Health & Prevention board.
- Experience of working within a multidisciplinary system including the NHS, Local Authority and voluntary sector.
- To be able to identify, analyse and interpret information and act as an information resource to the NENC ICS Population Health & Prevention board.
- An understanding of the key issues and challenges in improving population health during the 1001 critical days period.
- Develop and implement long term plans and strategies across a range of agencies and community groups. Integration of policies and strategies /
- Self-motivated and able to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
- Provides highly specialised advice to maternity teams and wide range of stakeholders in respect of public health activities and evidence-based practice.
- Understanding of national, regional and local policy.
- Day to day supervision and line management of ICS Prevention in Maternity team.
- Teach/deliver specialist training as required.
- Allocates work to staff; provides a range of training for staff.
- Responsible for the recruitment & selection, appraisal and co-ordination of a group of public health staff; provides training in a range of public health areas.
See attached job description for further details.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree and current professional registration in Midwifery, Nursing or Public Health.
- Knowledge of public health field acquired through relevant degree plus additional training or experience to master's degree or equivalent.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree and current professional registration in Midwifery, Nursing or Public Health.
- Knowledge of public health field acquired through relevant degree plus additional training or experience to master's degree or equivalent.
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).
