Public Health Consultant

Job responsibilities

Main Duties and Responsibilities

1

To lead commissioning for public health services.

2

To lead the development of inter-agency and interdisciplinary short & long-term strategic plans working collaboratively across the Council and with other agencies with a key focus on childrens public health across Leicestershire and Rutland County Councils.

3

To have overall responsibility for Childrens Public Health in Leicestershire and to manage the childrens public health commissioning, including staff management.

4

To advise on a range of complex public health issues, advise the Health & Wellbeing Boards at Leicestershire and Rutland County Councils and make recommendations regarding services, patient care and wider determinants of health.

To have lead responsibility for training in the department including speciality training liaising with the School and departmental educational supervisors, supporting those in the department going through the portfolio route, and wider departmental CPD

5

To deputise for the Director as required

6

Use of public health intelligence to survey and assess a populations health and wellbeing:

- To be able to synthesise data into information about the surveillance or assessment of a populations health and wellbeing from multiple sources that can be communicated clearly and inform action planning to improve population health outcomes.

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Assessing the evidence of effectiveness of interventions, programmes and services intended to improve the health or wellbeing of individuals or populations:

- To be able to use a range of resources to generate and communicate appropriately evidenced and informed recommendations for improving population health across operational and strategic health and care settings.

8

Policy and strategy development and implementation

- To be able to influence and contribute to the development of policy as well as lead the development and implementation of a strategy.

9

Strategic leadership and collaborative working for health

- To use a range of effective strategic leadership, organisational and management skills, in a variety of complex public health situations and contexts, dealing effectively with uncertainty and the unexpected to achieve public health goals.

10

Health Improvement, Determinants of Health and Health Communications

- To influence and act on the broad determinants and behaviours influencing health at a system, community and individual level.

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Health Protection

- To identify, assess and communicate risks associated with hazards relevant to health protection, and to lead and co-ordinate the appropriate public health response.

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Health and Care Public Health

- To be able to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, safety, reliability, responsiveness and equity of health and care services through applying insights from multiple sources including formal research, health surveillance, needs analysis, service monitoring and evaluation.

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Academic public health

- To add an academic perspective to all public health work undertaken. Specifically to be able to critically appraise evidence to inform policy and practice, identify evidence gaps with strategies to address these gaps, undertake research activities of a standard that is publishable in peer-reviewed journals, and demonstrate competence in teaching and learning across all areas of public health practice.

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Responsible for protecting and managing information securely, and reporting breaches or suspected information security breaches, in line with Council policies.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of successfully managing projects
• Experience of successfully managing change
• Experience of successfully managing a team
• Experience of successfully managing a budget
• Experience of using complex information to explain public health issues to a range of audiences

Desirable

• Experience of training and mentoring
• Experience of contributing to scientific publications and presenting at conferences

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge
• High level understanding of epidemiology and statistics, public health practice, health promotion, health economics and health care evaluation
• Understanding of the NHS England, PHE and local government
• Knowledge of methods of developing clinical quality assurance, quality improvement and evidence based clinical and/or public health practice
• Understanding of social and political environment
• Understanding of the interfaces between health & social care
• Understanding of the public sector duty and the inequality duty and their application to public health practice

Desirable

• Strategic thinking & leadership skills
• People management skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Effective interpersonal, motivational & influencing skills
• Ability to respond appropriately to unplanned and unforeseen circumstances
• Presentation skills
• Negotiation skills
• Substantially numerate, with a highly developed analytical skills
• Ability to effectively utilise IT resources
• Skills and Competencies
• Strategic thinking & leadership skills
• People management skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Effective interpersonal, motivational & influencing skills
• Ability to respond appropriately to unplanned and unforeseen circumstances
• Presentation skills
• Negotiation skills
• Substantially numerate, with a highly developed analytical skills
• Ability to effectively utilise IT resources
• Leadership Behaviours
• Instigate & deliver structural & cultural change
• Negotiate and influence effectively with local & national bodies, representing 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
• Translates 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 & understanding of community diversity within a complex, challenging environment
• Achieve visible & measureable positive outcomes with & for citizens, communities & other stakeholders
• Commitment to work within a political system irrespective of personal political affiliations

Qualifications

Essential

• Inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register
• Or
• Inclusion in the GMD Specialist List
• Or
• UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialist
• 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
• CPD requirements in accordance with the Faculty of Public Health requirements or other recognised body
• MFPH by examination, exemption or assessment
• Masters in Public Health or equivalent

UK Registration

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