Director of Population Health

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will have significant public health leadership and system level experience including leading and delivering complex change, service transformation and strategy development in a politically sensitive and complex environment. The postholder will operate strategically across the ICB corporate directorates and into the 9 Places; and be a key interface between the ICB and ICP (known locally as the Health Care Partnership) and their complementary agendas on population health, Marmot, inequalities and equity of access, amongst others.

The postholder will provide leadership for a Population Health team integrated with the Champs Public Health Collaborative, in partnership with the nine DsPH. The post holder will work with the ICB Executives, and/or their delegated deputies, to provide input into any service reconfiguration consultations and to advise on wider system wide strategic programmes across Cheshire & Merseyside.

To influence key system stakeholders and across the C&M ICB to ensure prevention programmes priorities are aligned under the C&M Prevention Framework

To provide support and assurance to the ICS CE on key transformation priorities, opportunities, risks, and achievements

To oversee a population Health Team, integrated with the Champs Support Team, and proving strong leadership to programme resources, defining work, ensuring deadlinesare adhered to and programme objectives are clearly articulated and understood

To act as an ambassador to the ICB, promoting and developing its reputation, forming robust strategic alliances, ensuring strategic connectivity with external partners, other relevant organisations, government departments and agencies

To provide expert public health whole system leadership to ensure an evidence-based approach for commissioning and developing high quality equitable services, within andacross a range of organisations including voluntary, public and private sector.

To ensure the ICS becomes a training location, ensuring an Educational Supervisor is identified within the ICS. These duties will be agreed jointly with the relevant Head of the School of Public Health

Managing the relationship with NHSE/I is critical to the success of this role. The postholder will work with partners to ensure the effective use in population health approaches to assist in equitable restoration and recovery of health/care services and the delegation of 7a and all other public health responsibilities from NHSE/I into to C&M ICB.

Key Tasks

To be a system leader and advocate for the principles of population health including reducing health inequalities, a whole-system approach to prevention, addressing thewider determinants of health underpinned by an intelligence led approach.

To lead and influence across the partnership by establishing key and effective working relationships and working with complex system, professional groups and organisations.

To lead Population Health programmes across C&M with a specific focus on population health including the priorities associated with Marmot community programme and strategic links to the CORE20PLUS5 programme

To partner with the C&M DsPH enabling strong strategic alignment and connectivity with the Champs DsPH led Collaborative Board and programme.

To oversee the delegation of 7a and all other public health responsibilities from NHSE/I to C&M ICB in line with national timelines and to provide strategic leadership for the aligned team and their functions

To advise system leads for Population Health Management and Intelligence (e.g. Combined Intelligence for Population Health Action (CIPHA), working closely with the ICBs CIO. Advising on insight and intelligence including prioritisation, risk stratification, data recording, collection systems and annual monitoring to track progress and hold system partners to account for improving outcomes

To champion the development of the NHS, public and private sector businesses as Anchor and Social Value organisations

To champion the adoption of the Cheshire and Merseyside Fair Employment Charter by NHS and partner organisations to support fair employment policies, payment of the Real Living Wage and enhance workforce health and wellbeing

To drive upstream, ill-health prevention at scale for all NHS staff, patients, and visitors and advocate for uptake of the NHS Prevention Pledge to all C&M NHS Trusts

To advise the ICB, Population Health Board, C&M DsPH and other relevant bodies

To influence key system stakeholders and across the C&M ICB to ensure prevention programmes priorities are aligned under the C&M Prevention Framework

To provide support and assurance to the ICS CE on key transformation priorities, opportunities, risks, and achievements

To oversee a population Health Team, integrated with the Champs Support Team, and proving strong leadership to programme resources, defining work, ensuring deadlinesare adhered to and programme objectives are clearly articulated and understood

To act as an ambassador to the ICB, promoting and developing its reputation, forming robust strategic alliances, ensuring strategic connectivity with external partners, other relevant organisations, government departments and agencies

To provide expert public health whole system leadership to ensure an evidence-based approach for commissioning and developing high quality equitable services, within andacross a range of organisations including voluntary, public and private sector.

To ensure the ICS becomes a training location, ensuring an Educational Supervisor is identified within the ICS. These duties will be agreed jointly with the relevant Head of the School of Public Health

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential

• Inclusion in the GMC Full and Specialist Register with a license to practise/ GDC Specialist List - or Inclusion in the UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialists
• meets minimum CPD requirements in accordance with Faculty of Public Health requirements or other recognised body
• MFPH by examination, be exemption or by assessment
• Masters in Public Health, or equivalent

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Strong experienced senior leader adept at leading change in a complex and dynamic environment, with an engaging, adaptable, leadership style which connects with people at all levels
• Able to both lead teams and to be able to contribute effectively to teams led by junior colleagues
• Commitment to work within a political system irrespective of personal political affiliations
• Highly motivated, robust, and resilient, with a 'can do' focus on delivery and the ability to adapt to changing circumstances

Experience

Essential

• Delivery of successful change management programmes across organisational boundaries
• Evidence of successful resource and financial management, including managing conflicting priorities, formulating budgets, and applying rigorous monitoring and control procedures
• Media experience demonstrating delivery of effective health behaviour or health promotion messages
• Experience of using complex information to explain public health issues to a range of audience
• Significant experience of managing people/teams

Skills

Essential

• Exceptional relationship building, relationship management and negotiation skills, with demonstrated ability to influence and persuade at the highest lev
• Strong senior leader adept at leading change in a complex and dynamic environment, with an engaging, adaptable, leadership style which connects with people at all levels
• Excellent communication and inter-personal skills, to relate effectively to key stakeholders (internally and externally) command their respect, trust, and confidence
• Strategic thinker with proven leadership skills and operational ability
• Able to demonstrate and motivate organisations to contribute to improving the public's health and wellbeing through mainstream activities and within resources
• Ability to lead and manage the response successfully in unplanned and unforeseen circumstances
• Analytical skills able to utilise both qualitative (including health economics) and quantitative information
• Ability to design, develop, interpret, and implement strategies and policies

Knowledge

Essential

• In depth understanding of the health and care system and the relationships with both local national government
• In depth knowledge of methods of developing clinical quality assurance, quality improvement, evaluations and evidence based public health practice
• 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

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board (493)

Address

TBC - HQ offices being decided - but working across Cheshire & Merseyside bases

TBC - But will be working across Cheshire & Merseyside

L3 4BL

Employer's website

https://www.cheshireandmerseysidepartnership.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)