Job summary
We currently have an exciting opportunity to join Leicestershire County Council as a Public Health Consultant. Public Health is one of six departments within the County Council, exercising the full range of public health duties, including the delivery and commissioning of services. The Director of Public Health is a chief officer of the council, reporting directly to the Chief Executive. This position reports to the Director of Public Health. The post holder will be responsible for improving the health of those living within Leicestershire, with specific responsibility for Health Protection and supporting the core offer to the ICB.
Main duties of the job
About the Role
As well as being suitably qualified, candidates will need to have experience of successfully managing public health professionals, budgets, projects, and leading through change. Successful candidates will also be able to demonstrate a wide variety of leadership behaviours and Public Health specialties including the following:
Use of public health intelligence to survey and assess a populations health and wellbeing
Assessing the evidence of effectiveness of interventions, programmes and services intended to improve the health or wellbeing of individuals or populations
Policy and strategy development and implementation
Strategic leadership and collaborative working for health
Health Improvement, Determinants of Health and Health Communications
Health Protection
Health and Care Public Health
Academic public health
This is a great opportunity to be a senior member of a high performing team and to ensure that public health plays a key role in the improvement of outcomes for our communities.
A relocation package could be made available for the right candidate.
This post is politically restricted therefore the post holder is disqualified from undertaking certain political activities under the Local Government Officers (Political Restrictions) Regulations 1990.
About us
About Leicestershire County Council
Leicestershire County Council is aStonewall Top 100,Disability Confident,Menopause Friendly,Mindful Employer, andForces Friendlyorganisation. In August 2021, we also signed up to theRace at Work Charter. We are strongly committed to promoting equality and opportunity, championing employee wellbeing and investing in staff training and development.
Our aim is to work with communities and partners to deliver public services that make Leicestershire the best possible place to live and work for everyone. Our employees play a key role in supporting this goal and helping us deliver the vital services we provide to the people of Leicestershire.
Job description
Job responsibilities
About the Role
As well as being suitably qualified, candidates will need to have experience of successfully managing public health professionals, budgets, projects, and leading through change. Successful candidates will also be able to demonstrate a wide variety of leadership behaviours and Public Health specialties including the following:
Use of public health intelligence to survey and assess a populations health and wellbeing
Assessing the evidence of effectiveness of interventions, programmes and services intended to improve the health or wellbeing of individuals or populations
Policy and strategy development and implementation
Strategic leadership and collaborative working for health
Health Improvement, Determinants of Health and Health Communications
Health Protection
Health and Care Public Health
Academic public health
This is a great opportunity to be a senior member of a high performing team and to ensure that public health plays a key role in the improvement of outcomes for our communities.
A relocation package could be made available for the right candidate.
This post is politically restricted therefore the post holder is disqualified from undertaking certain political activities under the Local Government Officers (Political Restrictions) Regulations 1990.
Job description
Job responsibilities
About the Role
As well as being suitably qualified, candidates will need to have experience of successfully managing public health professionals, budgets, projects, and leading through change. Successful candidates will also be able to demonstrate a wide variety of leadership behaviours and Public Health specialties including the following:
Use of public health intelligence to survey and assess a populations health and wellbeing
Assessing the evidence of effectiveness of interventions, programmes and services intended to improve the health or wellbeing of individuals or populations
Policy and strategy development and implementation
Strategic leadership and collaborative working for health
Health Improvement, Determinants of Health and Health Communications
Health Protection
Health and Care Public Health
Academic public health
This is a great opportunity to be a senior member of a high performing team and to ensure that public health plays a key role in the improvement of outcomes for our communities.
A relocation package could be made available for the right candidate.
This post is politically restricted therefore the post holder is disqualified from undertaking certain political activities under the Local Government Officers (Political Restrictions) Regulations 1990.
Person Specification
About You:
Essential
- To apply for this post, you must meet the following requirements:
- Inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register or Inclusion in the GMD Specialist List or UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialist. CPD requirements in accordance with the Faculty of Public Health requirements or other recognised body. MFPH by examination, exemption or assessment. A Master's in Public Health or equivalent.
- (If included in the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List in a speciality other than public health medicine/dental public health, must have equivalent training and/or appropriate experience of public health medicine practice. Public Health speciality registrar applicants who are not yet registered must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they are within 6 months of gaining entry at the date of interview. If an applicant is UK trained in Public Health, they must ALSO be a holder of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) or be within six months of award of CCT by date of interview. If an applicant is non-UK trained, they will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT.)
- Have successful experience in the following areas:
- Project management, managing change, managing a team, budget management, using complex information to explain public health issues to a range of audiences
- Demonstrate a sound knowledge in the following:
- Epidemiology and statistics, public health practice, health promotion, health economics and health care evaluation, NHS England, PHE and local government, methods of developing clinical quality assurance, quality improvement and evidence based clinical and/or public health practice, social and political environment, the interfaces between health & social care, the public sector duty and the inequality duty and their application to public health practice.
- Possess the following skills:
- Strategic thinking & leadership, people management, excellent communication skills, effective interpersonal, motivational & influencing skills, the ability to respond appropriately to unplanned and unforeseen circumstances, presentation skills, negotiation skills, substantially numerate, with highly developed analytical skills, the ability to effectively utilise IT resources
- Can demonstrate the following leadership behaviours:
- Instigate & deliver structural & cultural change, negotiate and influence effectively with local & national bodies and represent the interests of the organisation. Understand & analyse the inter-connections, inter-dependencies and interactions between complex issues, across boundaries between different sectors, services & levels of government. Operate along different dimension, often simultaneously horizontally between different sectors, vertically from policy design to service delivery and diagonally, across decision making networks.
- Translate the vision into action by establishing a clear strategy & ensuring appropriate structures & mechanisms are in place to deliver it. Ensure the vision is understood in each area of the organisation so that people understand how work together to deliver this vision. Engage all stakeholders on the achievement of the vision & strategy. Ensure that communication between leaders, partners & members is effective and timely. Develop ways of sharing, comparing, disseminating & transplanting emerging knowledge and experience widely across the whole public service system.
- Work with communities to identify future needs, anticipating issues & change and responding appropriately. Develop, deliver and improve access to services based on awareness and understanding of community diversity within a complex, challenging environment. Achieve visible & measurable positive outcomes with & for citizens, communities & other stakeholder. Demonstrate commitment to work within a political system irrespective of personal political affiliations.
- We also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
- This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English is an essential requirement for this role.
Person Specification
About You:
Essential
- To apply for this post, you must meet the following requirements:
- Inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register or Inclusion in the GMD Specialist List or UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialist. CPD requirements in accordance with the Faculty of Public Health requirements or other recognised body. MFPH by examination, exemption or assessment. A Master's in Public Health or equivalent.
- (If included in the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List in a speciality other than public health medicine/dental public health, must have equivalent training and/or appropriate experience of public health medicine practice. Public Health speciality registrar applicants who are not yet registered must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they are within 6 months of gaining entry at the date of interview. If an applicant is UK trained in Public Health, they must ALSO be a holder of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) or be within six months of award of CCT by date of interview. If an applicant is non-UK trained, they will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT.)
- Have successful experience in the following areas:
- Project management, managing change, managing a team, budget management, using complex information to explain public health issues to a range of audiences
- Demonstrate a sound knowledge in the following:
- Epidemiology and statistics, public health practice, health promotion, health economics and health care evaluation, NHS England, PHE and local government, methods of developing clinical quality assurance, quality improvement and evidence based clinical and/or public health practice, social and political environment, the interfaces between health & social care, the public sector duty and the inequality duty and their application to public health practice.
- Possess the following skills:
- Strategic thinking & leadership, people management, excellent communication skills, effective interpersonal, motivational & influencing skills, the ability to respond appropriately to unplanned and unforeseen circumstances, presentation skills, negotiation skills, substantially numerate, with highly developed analytical skills, the ability to effectively utilise IT resources
- Can demonstrate the following leadership behaviours:
- Instigate & deliver structural & cultural change, negotiate and influence effectively with local & national bodies and represent the interests of the organisation. Understand & analyse the inter-connections, inter-dependencies and interactions between complex issues, across boundaries between different sectors, services & levels of government. Operate along different dimension, often simultaneously horizontally between different sectors, vertically from policy design to service delivery and diagonally, across decision making networks.
- Translate the vision into action by establishing a clear strategy & ensuring appropriate structures & mechanisms are in place to deliver it. Ensure the vision is understood in each area of the organisation so that people understand how work together to deliver this vision. Engage all stakeholders on the achievement of the vision & strategy. Ensure that communication between leaders, partners & members is effective and timely. Develop ways of sharing, comparing, disseminating & transplanting emerging knowledge and experience widely across the whole public service system.
- Work with communities to identify future needs, anticipating issues & change and responding appropriately. Develop, deliver and improve access to services based on awareness and understanding of community diversity within a complex, challenging environment. Achieve visible & measurable positive outcomes with & for citizens, communities & other stakeholder. Demonstrate commitment to work within a political system irrespective of personal political affiliations.
- We also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
- This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English is an essential requirement for this role.
Additional information
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).
