Consultant in Public Health Health Protection and HCPH

Warwickshire County Council

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Job summary

About the team and the role

Its an exciting time to join our Public Health team as we continue to work across our system to deliver on our Health and Wellbeing ambitions. Our focus is on improving and protecting the health of the people of Warwickshire and reducing preventable differences in health outcomes. This role is a real opportunity to make a difference to the lives of our residents.

We are a dynamic, supportive, and solution-focused team. You will benefit from the foundations of well-developed health protection workstreams established in the County and working very closely with colleagues in Coventry plus sharing system-wide responsibility for several work programmes across the sub-region.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities

You will be responsible for leading Health Protection assurance and associated programmes across Warwickshire & Coventry. This includes leading on implementation of our Health Protection Strategy being our emergency planning lead.

Your work will prevent and reduce levels of communicable disease, environmental hazards and oral health promotion, and ensure that screening and immunisation programmes have comprehensive coverage within the local population.

You will lead on Migrant Health and provide expert input into the commissioning of services including community nursing TB and sexual health. You will also lead on the Rugby Place Health and Wellbeing Partnership.

You will provide input into the Health Care Public Health Agenda and contribute to decision making by Individual Funding Request Panels. You will provide support to trainees including F2 doctors, GP and Public health registrars.

About us

Working for Warwickshire This is the difference you make

Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feels valued, included, safe, supported, and welcome. Our people are at the heart of this vision, could you be one of them!

At Warwickshire County Council we are committed to ensuring Warwickshires economy is vibrant and supported by the right jobs, training, skills and infrastructure. Our people vision for Warwickshire County Council is a great place to work where diverse and talented people are enabled to be their best.

Your future matters to us, we provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19 percent per month, to help support your financial security during retirement. The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants. To find out more please visit: Warwickshire Pension Fund homepage Warwickshire Pension Fund'

The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform.

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Date posted

27 March 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£84,443 to £92,312 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Flexible working

Reference number

F0047-24-0000

Job locations

Warwickshire County Council

Shire Hall

Warwick

CV34 4RL

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Inclusion in the GMC Full and Specialist Register with a license to practice/GDC Specialist List (or be eligible for registration within six months of interview) or inclusion in the UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialists.

If included in the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List in a specialty other than public health medicine/dental public health, candidates must have equivalent training and/or appropriate experience of public health practice

Public health specialty registrar applicants who are not yet on the GMC Specialist Register, GDC Specialist List in dental public health or UKPHR must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they are within 6 months of gaining entry to a register at the date of interview. All other applicants NOT YET granted specialist registration, must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence from the REGISTER concerned that they have submitted satisfactory evidence and that registration within six months of date of interview is assured.

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 [see shortlisting notes below for additional guidance]

Applicants must meet minimum CPD requirements (i.e. be up to date) in accordance with Faculty of Public Health requirements or other recognised body. Applicants must also undertake revalidation, audit or other measures required to remain on the GMC/GDC Specialist Register or the UK Public Health Register, or other specialist register as appropriate

MFPH by examination, by exemption or by assessment

Masters in Public Health or equivalent (Desirable)

Able to influence senior members including directors and CEOs

Strong leadership skills which reflect WCC competencies and behaviours in both leading own team and supporting others

Proven skill to negotiate, influence and motivate a range of clinical and non clinical leaders will be a pre-requisite as will the flexibility to deal with complex public health issues often working within and between organisations and influencing without authority

The ability to cope with multiple and changing demands, and to meet tight deadlines

A strong analytical mind and be confident in handling and using data (qualitative, including health economics, and quantitative information) to shape and inform policy and strategy work

Delivery of successful change management programmes across organisational boundaries

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 audiences

Able to demonstrate and motivate organisations to contribute to improving the publics health and wellbeing through mainstream activities and within resources

Ability to lead and manage the response successfully in unplanned and unforeseen circumstances

Ability to design, develop, interpret and implement strategies and policies

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

Understanding of the public sector duty and the inequality duty and their application to public health practice

Experience of managing a budget

What we are looking for

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. You will act as a Clinical supervisor and if not already registered as an Educational Supervisor, undertake the necessary training to be able to perform this function.

Professional, personal and ethical development

To be able to shape, pursue actively and evaluate your own personal and professional development, using insight into your own behaviours and attitudes and their impact to modify behaviour and to practise within the framework of the GMC's Good Medical Practice (as used for appraisal and revalidation for consultants in public health), the Faculty of Public Healths Good Public Health Practice and the UKPHRs Code of Conduct.

Integration and application of competencies for consultant practice

To be able to demonstrate the consistent use of sound judgment to select from a range of advanced public health expertise and skills, and to use them effectively, working at senior organisational levels, to deliver improved population health in complex and unpredictable environments. Medically qualified members of the public health team are expected to play certain roles in medical leadership, in relationships with the medical profession and in bringing a medical perspective to public health advice. A medically qualified holder of this post would be expected to share these roles with other medically qualified members of the team.