Job summary
This post will be a formal Deputy for the Director of Public Health and Communities both corporately and across the system partnerships. The post will provide crucial strategic leadership for key functions across the division including business, strategy and performance, health protection and emergency planning. The post holder will be an active and integral part of the Council's Service Directors group, working with the Corporate Leadership Team to develop the 'one team' approach to cross organ
Main duties of the job
1. Registered public health specialist (i.e. included in the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List or UK Public Health Register (UKPHR)).
2. Takes lead responsibility for a range of complex public health and community issues and works across organisational and professional boundaries to act as a change agent and deliver improvements in communities, health and wellbeing. This will include aspects to do with public sector reform, health economics, workforce, finance and organisational culture.
3. Working with the Director of Public Health and Communities, will provide briefings at a senior level on the health and wellbeing needs of local communities to Councillors, senior Council Officers, Integrated Care Board, the 3rd sector, the public and wider partners. Where required to so, the post-holder will provide verbal briefing to Councillors, other colleagues and stakeholders in person which maybe at short notice or out of house in an emergency situation.
4. The post holder will be dually accountable: professionally to the employing authority Nottinghamshire County Council managerially to the Director of Public Health and Communities (and to deputise when required, including providing assessments of the adequacy of the arrangements across the whole system for the protection and improvement of health)
5. Managerially responsible for a team of staff in the Public Health and Communities division.
6. Direct budget responsibility for part(s) of the Public Health grant and
About us
Nottinghamshire is a diverse county, consisting of a mix of urban and rural areas, with significant areas of deprivation and health challenges. The successful candidate will join a vibrant and successful Council with an engaged political leadership and a commitment to cross Council working to deliver a healthier, greener, and more prosperous Nottinghamshire.
You will become part of a unique and friendly Public Health and Communities division, led by the Director of Public Health and Communities and senior leadership team. This is a new and exciting division of approximately 180 staff, based within the Place department, which aims to capitalise on the opportunities of bringing Public Health together with wider communities, culture, and public protection services to improve outcomes
Job description
Job responsibilities
Are you an aspiring Director of Public Health and Communities?
Nottinghamshire County Council is looking for an ambitious, visionary, forward thinking system leader to support the newly appointed Director of Public Health and Communities define and implement the future vision of the newly established 'Public Health and Communities' division. This role will be instrumental in leading system transformation to further embed communities, prevention, and equity into the DNA of the organisation and wider system. The post will also support opportunities to work with the East Midlands Combined Authority to enhance the building blocks of good health across Nottinghamshire and the region.
This post will be a formal Deputy for the Director of Public Health and Communities both corporately and across the system partnerships. The post will provide crucial strategic leadership for key functions across the division including business, strategy and performance, health protection and emergency planning. The post holder will be an active and integral part of the Council's Service Directors group, working with the Corporate Leadership Team to develop the 'one team' approach to cross organisational and public sector reform including developing Nottinghamshire's 'thriving communities.'
Nottinghamshire is a diverse county, consisting of a mix of urban and rural areas, with significant areas of deprivation and health challenges. The successful candidate will join a vibrant and successful Council with an engaged political leadership and a commitment to cross Council working to deliver a healthier, greener, and more prosperous Nottinghamshire.
You will become part of a unique and friendly Public Health and Communities division, led by the Director of Public Health and Communities and senior leadership team. This is a new and exciting division of approximately 180 staff, based within the Place department, which aims to capitalise on the opportunities of bringing Public Health together with wider communities, culture, and public protection services to improve outcomes and reduce health inequalities across Nottinghamshire.
We are seeking to appoint a visionary and motivational system-leader, with a proven track record of public health success as a senior Public Health Consultant and extensive experience of partnership working. If you have the ambition and expertise to progress your career and help us make a real impact for people and communities in Nottinghamshire, then we would love to hear from you. Prerequisites for shortlisting include public health specialist registration with the GMC, GDC or UKPHR and that you have evidenced significant consultant-level public health experience and achievement in all areas of public health practice.
To arrange an informal discussion about this exciting role with Vivienne Robbins, Director of Public Health and Communities, please contact 0115 977 5781.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Are you an aspiring Director of Public Health and Communities?
Nottinghamshire County Council is looking for an ambitious, visionary, forward thinking system leader to support the newly appointed Director of Public Health and Communities define and implement the future vision of the newly established 'Public Health and Communities' division. This role will be instrumental in leading system transformation to further embed communities, prevention, and equity into the DNA of the organisation and wider system. The post will also support opportunities to work with the East Midlands Combined Authority to enhance the building blocks of good health across Nottinghamshire and the region.
This post will be a formal Deputy for the Director of Public Health and Communities both corporately and across the system partnerships. The post will provide crucial strategic leadership for key functions across the division including business, strategy and performance, health protection and emergency planning. The post holder will be an active and integral part of the Council's Service Directors group, working with the Corporate Leadership Team to develop the 'one team' approach to cross organisational and public sector reform including developing Nottinghamshire's 'thriving communities.'
Nottinghamshire is a diverse county, consisting of a mix of urban and rural areas, with significant areas of deprivation and health challenges. The successful candidate will join a vibrant and successful Council with an engaged political leadership and a commitment to cross Council working to deliver a healthier, greener, and more prosperous Nottinghamshire.
You will become part of a unique and friendly Public Health and Communities division, led by the Director of Public Health and Communities and senior leadership team. This is a new and exciting division of approximately 180 staff, based within the Place department, which aims to capitalise on the opportunities of bringing Public Health together with wider communities, culture, and public protection services to improve outcomes and reduce health inequalities across Nottinghamshire.
We are seeking to appoint a visionary and motivational system-leader, with a proven track record of public health success as a senior Public Health Consultant and extensive experience of partnership working. If you have the ambition and expertise to progress your career and help us make a real impact for people and communities in Nottinghamshire, then we would love to hear from you. Prerequisites for shortlisting include public health specialist registration with the GMC, GDC or UKPHR and that you have evidenced significant consultant-level public health experience and achievement in all areas of public health practice.
To arrange an informal discussion about this exciting role with Vivienne Robbins, Director of Public Health and Communities, please contact 0115 977 5781.
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Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List/UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialists. This entails a Masters programme plus further specialist training and formal certification of competency against the full range of competencies in the FPH curriculum.
Experience
Essential
- 1. Able to lead and work within teams to deliver a set of outcomes successfully across complex system and partnerships
- 2. Demonstrates expertise and commitment to public health principles
- 3. Commitment to working with range of stakeholders and communities to deliver health improvements to the population
- 4. Strategic and system thinker with proven leadership skills
- 5. Excellent oral and written communication skills (including dealing with the media and elected Members) in a number of situations, able to translate complex data into clear messages for a range of audiences
- 6. Able to lead and manage change successfully both within and across organisations, including in unplanned and unforeseen circumstances.
- 7. Substantially numerate, with highly developed skills for the critical appraisal and synthesis of complex scientific data from peer reviewed research and other sources including both qualitative (e.g. health economics) and quantitative information.
- 5. Membership of the Faculty of Public Health (MFPH) by examination, by exemption or by assessment
- 6. Masters degree or equivalent
- 7. In depth understanding of NHS and local government cultures, structures and policies
- 8. In depth knowledge of methods of developing community and clinical quality assurance, quality improvement and evidence based clinical and/or public health practice
- 9. Strong and demonstrable understanding of interfaces between health, social care, police and crime commissioner and key partners (dealing with wider determinants of health and public sector reform.)
- 8. Ability to design, develop, interpret and implement strategies and policies
- 9. Ability to deal with complex public health and community challenges in a multi-organisational environment with widely differing governance and finance systems, often with no direct management (or other types of) authority
- 10. Ability to cope with multiple and changing demands, and complex interdependencies across the whole system, and to meet tight deadlines.
- 11. A high level of intellectual rigour, political awareness and negotiation and motivation skills as well as flexibility and sensitivity.
- 12. A high level of tact, diplomacy and leadership is required including the ability to work within political and other systems and at the same time maintain the ability to challenge and advocate for effective working within the local authority at senior level and across organisational boundaries in order to achieve public health and community outcomes
- 13. Resilience and flexibility to secure long term objectives in a strongly contested multi-professional, multi-agency environment
- 14. Able to provide educational supervision and effective teaching for public health specialist registrars, foundation year doctors, and other medical staff on secondment to public health
- 15. Able to influence senior members including directors and CEOs
- 16. Able to demonstrate motivation of organisations to contribute to improving the public's health and wellbeing through mainstream activities and within resources.
- 17. A high level of resilience along with intellectual and practical flexibility to deal effectively with multiple and changing demands in complex multi-organisational contexts, and to meet tight deadlines.
- 1. Delivery of successful complex change management projects against defined outcomes within the available re resources in a range of areas
- 2. Supporting and managing a range of staff
- 3. Leadership, management or support in health protection and emergency planning situations
- 4. Use of a range of media to deliver effective health behaviour or health promotion messages
- 5. Experience of using complex information to explain public health issues to a range of audiences.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List/UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialists. This entails a Masters programme plus further specialist training and formal certification of competency against the full range of competencies in the FPH curriculum.
Experience
Essential
- 1. Able to lead and work within teams to deliver a set of outcomes successfully across complex system and partnerships
- 2. Demonstrates expertise and commitment to public health principles
- 3. Commitment to working with range of stakeholders and communities to deliver health improvements to the population
- 4. Strategic and system thinker with proven leadership skills
- 5. Excellent oral and written communication skills (including dealing with the media and elected Members) in a number of situations, able to translate complex data into clear messages for a range of audiences
- 6. Able to lead and manage change successfully both within and across organisations, including in unplanned and unforeseen circumstances.
- 7. Substantially numerate, with highly developed skills for the critical appraisal and synthesis of complex scientific data from peer reviewed research and other sources including both qualitative (e.g. health economics) and quantitative information.
- 5. Membership of the Faculty of Public Health (MFPH) by examination, by exemption or by assessment
- 6. Masters degree or equivalent
- 7. In depth understanding of NHS and local government cultures, structures and policies
- 8. In depth knowledge of methods of developing community and clinical quality assurance, quality improvement and evidence based clinical and/or public health practice
- 9. Strong and demonstrable understanding of interfaces between health, social care, police and crime commissioner and key partners (dealing with wider determinants of health and public sector reform.)
- 8. Ability to design, develop, interpret and implement strategies and policies
- 9. Ability to deal with complex public health and community challenges in a multi-organisational environment with widely differing governance and finance systems, often with no direct management (or other types of) authority
- 10. Ability to cope with multiple and changing demands, and complex interdependencies across the whole system, and to meet tight deadlines.
- 11. A high level of intellectual rigour, political awareness and negotiation and motivation skills as well as flexibility and sensitivity.
- 12. A high level of tact, diplomacy and leadership is required including the ability to work within political and other systems and at the same time maintain the ability to challenge and advocate for effective working within the local authority at senior level and across organisational boundaries in order to achieve public health and community outcomes
- 13. Resilience and flexibility to secure long term objectives in a strongly contested multi-professional, multi-agency environment
- 14. Able to provide educational supervision and effective teaching for public health specialist registrars, foundation year doctors, and other medical staff on secondment to public health
- 15. Able to influence senior members including directors and CEOs
- 16. Able to demonstrate motivation of organisations to contribute to improving the public's health and wellbeing through mainstream activities and within resources.
- 17. A high level of resilience along with intellectual and practical flexibility to deal effectively with multiple and changing demands in complex multi-organisational contexts, and to meet tight deadlines.
- 1. Delivery of successful complex change management projects against defined outcomes within the available re resources in a range of areas
- 2. Supporting and managing a range of staff
- 3. Leadership, management or support in health protection and emergency planning situations
- 4. Use of a range of media to deliver effective health behaviour or health promotion messages
- 5. Experience of using complex information to explain public health issues to a range of audiences.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
