Job summary
Joining our friendly and supportive Health Checks Team, you can advance your career in Public Health whilst playing a key role in preventing ill health and addressing health inequalities in our communities. We are part of the wider Hampshire and Isle of Wight Public Health Team who enjoy the challenge of working innovatively to ensure continuous improvement of public health initiatives and driving them through to completion.
Working closely with primary care across Hampshire, youll provide leadership to and support the delivery of the NHS Health Checks Programme with the aim of increasing invites and uptake, reducing inequalities and improving the quality of checks. With a passion for preventing ill health at an early stage and improving the quality of health checks, youll use your excellent relationship building and communication skills to deliver impactful MECC training and work effectively with a wide variety of partners.
This is a brand new role giving you the opportunity to put your own stamp on it, whilst working autonomously and travelling across Hampshire to work with practices. Relevant experience of working in or with general practice settings, including using primary care data systems, and knowledge of the NHS Health Checks programme is essential.
Main duties of the job
This is a brand new role giving you the opportunity to put your own stamp on it, whilst working autonomously and travelling across Hampshire to work with practices. Relevant experience of working in or with general practice settings, including using primary care data systems, and knowledge of the NHS Health Checks programme is essential.
About us
Were a high-performing County Council with a focus on providing
quality services and support to the people of Hampshire. Were very
proud that our teams are so committed to delivering the high
standards that our strong reputation is built on.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To work with GP practices across Hampshire to improve and standardise NHS Health checks processes, increase the quality of NHS Health Checks, reduce inequalities and support onward public health action and referrals.
- To deliver Make Every Contact Count (MECC) training to practices, with a particular focus on staff delivering NHS Health Checks.
- To facilitate links between practices and local healthy lifestyle services.
- To develop and facilitate a community of learning for NHS Health Check professionals.
- With support of the public health team, to increase the profile of NHS Health Checks within the Hampshire geography (including Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board and Frimley Integrated Care Board).
Operational
- Use national and local published tools to develop a best practice framework to support Health Checks quality improvement and conversations with practices.
- Work with practices and Primary Care Networks (PCNs) to increase the quality and reduce variability of NHS Health Checks.
- Develop excellent relationships with local primary care providers and Integrated Care Board primary care leads.
- Prioritise and undertake practice visits, aiming to reach all practices in Hampshire by 18 months. You will work with practices to review processes including searching, inviting, health check delivery and onward referral.
- Work with practices to develop processes to improve links to and ensure onward referral to lifestyle services, including smoking cessation services, weight management, alcohol and substance misuse services and physical activity.
- Work with practices to identify action practices could take to reduce inequalities, and develop best practice case studies to illustrate this.
- To work with other members of the team develop and facilitate a community of practice learning programme for local NHS Health Check practitioners.
- To become a MECC trainer and deliver MECC training to practice and PCN and other primary care staff.
- To be a key public health link between practices and primary care, and you may be required to work alongside other public health programmes which have close links to primary care e.g. sexual health in primary care.
- Review and summarise impact of visits undertaken.
- To operate in a highly political and sensitive environment.
Information Management.
- Utilise data to prioritise working with practices and support conversations around quality improvement.
- Analyse, interpret and present data to highlight issues, risks and support decision making.
- Collate qualitative and quantitative information and lead appropriate analysis to ensure robust conclusions and learning to inform training, case studies, individual practice improvement etc.
Research and Development
- Collate a summary of evidence-based interventions and best practice to share with key stakeholders and inform quality improvement and reducing inequalities.
- Plan, develop and evaluate methods and processes; gathering, analysing, interpreting and presenting data and information as required, including utilising data to present to practices around individual performance.
- Develop and implement self-assessment process for practices.
- Develop and implement evaluation of MECC effectiveness.
Resource management
This role may not manage a budget directly but work will have a significant impact of service delivery and modernisation. You will:
- Determine short, medium and long term delivery plan, achieving quality outcomes.
- Work across projects with programme and project colleagues to identify opportunities for coordination or further quality improvement.
Risk & Issue Management
- Keep meticulous documentation of activity and plans.
- Highlight exceptions and risks ensuring mitigating action can be taken to keep the programme on track. Create and oversee the project risk and issue logs.
- Drive continuous improvement cycles to meet future needs and expectations.
- Draft reports summarising status on issues, appraising outcomes, and providing progress reports for the Public Health Principal.
Advocacy and Champion
- To increase visibility, awareness and support for the NHS Health Checks programme across Hampshire.
- To support co-production and insights work where possible, working with other members of the council, Integrated Care Boards and voluntary sector to engage communities.
Main Contacts
- Public Health Consultants, Principals and Senior Practitioners and other professionals who may support projects.
- Local primary care workforce and Integrated Care Boards primary care teams.
- Colleagues, peers and staff across the department.
- Stakeholders and partners (commissioned services, NHS, district councils, voluntary sector and independent providers).
Values Based Recruitment:
We are passionate about our values: Collaborative: Working together, combining talents and sharing resources to shape decisions and actions, and to maximise health outcomes. Equalities-driven: Reducing inequalities and promoting equity in all we do, so that no one is left behind as we strive for better health and wellbeing. Outcome focussed: Prioritising our work based on evidence, effectiveness and value for money to improve quality outcomes and prevent ill health. Sustainable: Being future-focussed. Creating lasting change in local systems and communities. Developing our work through a climate change lens to achieve health and climate benefits.
We practice values-based recruitment in Public Health and invite you to evidence how you demonstrate our values in your application. The interview for the role will also be values based and will explore how you will be able to contribute to these.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To work with GP practices across Hampshire to improve and standardise NHS Health checks processes, increase the quality of NHS Health Checks, reduce inequalities and support onward public health action and referrals.
- To deliver Make Every Contact Count (MECC) training to practices, with a particular focus on staff delivering NHS Health Checks.
- To facilitate links between practices and local healthy lifestyle services.
- To develop and facilitate a community of learning for NHS Health Check professionals.
- With support of the public health team, to increase the profile of NHS Health Checks within the Hampshire geography (including Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board and Frimley Integrated Care Board).
Operational
- Use national and local published tools to develop a best practice framework to support Health Checks quality improvement and conversations with practices.
- Work with practices and Primary Care Networks (PCNs) to increase the quality and reduce variability of NHS Health Checks.
- Develop excellent relationships with local primary care providers and Integrated Care Board primary care leads.
- Prioritise and undertake practice visits, aiming to reach all practices in Hampshire by 18 months. You will work with practices to review processes including searching, inviting, health check delivery and onward referral.
- Work with practices to develop processes to improve links to and ensure onward referral to lifestyle services, including smoking cessation services, weight management, alcohol and substance misuse services and physical activity.
- Work with practices to identify action practices could take to reduce inequalities, and develop best practice case studies to illustrate this.
- To work with other members of the team develop and facilitate a community of practice learning programme for local NHS Health Check practitioners.
- To become a MECC trainer and deliver MECC training to practice and PCN and other primary care staff.
- To be a key public health link between practices and primary care, and you may be required to work alongside other public health programmes which have close links to primary care e.g. sexual health in primary care.
- Review and summarise impact of visits undertaken.
- To operate in a highly political and sensitive environment.
Information Management.
- Utilise data to prioritise working with practices and support conversations around quality improvement.
- Analyse, interpret and present data to highlight issues, risks and support decision making.
- Collate qualitative and quantitative information and lead appropriate analysis to ensure robust conclusions and learning to inform training, case studies, individual practice improvement etc.
Research and Development
- Collate a summary of evidence-based interventions and best practice to share with key stakeholders and inform quality improvement and reducing inequalities.
- Plan, develop and evaluate methods and processes; gathering, analysing, interpreting and presenting data and information as required, including utilising data to present to practices around individual performance.
- Develop and implement self-assessment process for practices.
- Develop and implement evaluation of MECC effectiveness.
Resource management
This role may not manage a budget directly but work will have a significant impact of service delivery and modernisation. You will:
- Determine short, medium and long term delivery plan, achieving quality outcomes.
- Work across projects with programme and project colleagues to identify opportunities for coordination or further quality improvement.
Risk & Issue Management
- Keep meticulous documentation of activity and plans.
- Highlight exceptions and risks ensuring mitigating action can be taken to keep the programme on track. Create and oversee the project risk and issue logs.
- Drive continuous improvement cycles to meet future needs and expectations.
- Draft reports summarising status on issues, appraising outcomes, and providing progress reports for the Public Health Principal.
Advocacy and Champion
- To increase visibility, awareness and support for the NHS Health Checks programme across Hampshire.
- To support co-production and insights work where possible, working with other members of the council, Integrated Care Boards and voluntary sector to engage communities.
Main Contacts
- Public Health Consultants, Principals and Senior Practitioners and other professionals who may support projects.
- Local primary care workforce and Integrated Care Boards primary care teams.
- Colleagues, peers and staff across the department.
- Stakeholders and partners (commissioned services, NHS, district councils, voluntary sector and independent providers).
Values Based Recruitment:
We are passionate about our values: Collaborative: Working together, combining talents and sharing resources to shape decisions and actions, and to maximise health outcomes. Equalities-driven: Reducing inequalities and promoting equity in all we do, so that no one is left behind as we strive for better health and wellbeing. Outcome focussed: Prioritising our work based on evidence, effectiveness and value for money to improve quality outcomes and prevent ill health. Sustainable: Being future-focussed. Creating lasting change in local systems and communities. Developing our work through a climate change lens to achieve health and climate benefits.
We practice values-based recruitment in Public Health and invite you to evidence how you demonstrate our values in your application. The interview for the role will also be values based and will explore how you will be able to contribute to these.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A degree in a relevant field and/or other formal recognised qualifications or relevant experience working at a senior level
Desirable
- Healthcare qualification.
Experience
Essential
- Experience working in or with primary care, including using primary care data
- systems.
- Good knowledge of NHS Health Checks programme.
- Experience of Quality Improvement Methodology and successful delivery of change to
- improve patient outcomes and experience.
- Evidence of building effective working partnerships with stakeholders, including
- primary care.
Desirable
- Experience delivering NHS Health Checks or responsibility for NHS Health Check
- delivery (e.g. managing HCAs delivering them).
- Experience of planning and delivering training.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Ability to interpret datasets and performance data and present complex data clearly
- and concisely to audiences of all capabilities and attitudes.
- Significant relevant project management experience, including successful
- management of a range of multi-disciplinary projects.
- Knowledge of public health principals and good understanding of inequalities.
- Knowledge of behaviour change theory and techniques.
- Understanding of evidence-based practice and research methods.
- Proven ability to handle politically sensitive and controversial issues.
- Ability to deal with confidential and sensitive information and a strict regard for
- confidentiality in line with General Data Protection Regulation.
Desirable
- Project and programme management qualification.
- Understanding of local authority and the social and political environment.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A degree in a relevant field and/or other formal recognised qualifications or relevant experience working at a senior level
Desirable
- Healthcare qualification.
Experience
Essential
- Experience working in or with primary care, including using primary care data
- systems.
- Good knowledge of NHS Health Checks programme.
- Experience of Quality Improvement Methodology and successful delivery of change to
- improve patient outcomes and experience.
- Evidence of building effective working partnerships with stakeholders, including
- primary care.
Desirable
- Experience delivering NHS Health Checks or responsibility for NHS Health Check
- delivery (e.g. managing HCAs delivering them).
- Experience of planning and delivering training.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Ability to interpret datasets and performance data and present complex data clearly
- and concisely to audiences of all capabilities and attitudes.
- Significant relevant project management experience, including successful
- management of a range of multi-disciplinary projects.
- Knowledge of public health principals and good understanding of inequalities.
- Knowledge of behaviour change theory and techniques.
- Understanding of evidence-based practice and research methods.
- Proven ability to handle politically sensitive and controversial issues.
- Ability to deal with confidential and sensitive information and a strict regard for
- confidentiality in line with General Data Protection Regulation.
Desirable
- Project and programme management qualification.
- Understanding of local authority and the social and political environment.
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.
