Consultant in Public Health (ICS Population Health Intelligence)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Purpose of the role:

• To establish and lead the BLMK ICS PHIU ensuring it delivers its objectives and adapts to emerging local priorities and national requirements.
• To provide analytical leadership across the ICS and act as a visible senior trusted expert on data and analytics.
• To provide effective leadership across a portfolio of analytical projects by leading the Population Health Management Oversight Group and by working with customers of analysis and domain experts to ensure insights lead to intervention.
• Design and deliver a programme of Population Health Intelligence and Population Health Management, ensuring the ICS at all levels and geographies is driven and informed by insights from data, working with ICS leadership to translate insights to action.
• Work with the Digital Programme Team to deliver data and analytics transformation projects as part of the ICS Digital and Data strategies.
• Act as a champion for data and analysis and foster a data-driven culture of decision making in the ICS, by demonstrating its value and impact to senior managers and clinicians.
• Manage and develop working relationships with analytical leads across the system to develop virtual matrix working relationships with appropriate agreed governance, creating multi-disciplinary teams to solve shared problems with data analysis.
• Act as a champion for analytical development, working with analytical leads across the system to develop capabilities in key skills including advanced analytics, data science, health economics, evaluation and broad analytical, communication and leadership skills more generally.
• To work with cross-system stakeholders to maximise the utility and value of data analytics by identifying opportunities to create novel datasets and programmes of analysis that can help solve shared strategic problems.
• To work with clinicians and other professionals across primary care, secondary care, social care, and the VCSE to provide expert analytical input and ensuring high-quality analysis is available across care settings.
• Compile and present papers and proposals to the ICB Board, Committees, and Executive Team, as well as to external and internal groups, using facilitation and persuasion skills to share insights and gain agreement.
• Provide leadership on development of ICS-wide analytical platforms, managing key relationships with digital and technology colleagues, including external suppliers, and potentially managing associated contracts.
• Represent the Council and ICS in local, regional and national settings e.g. data and analytics groups, to place the PHIU as a network within a set of other networks, and where appropriate, deputise for the Chief Officer for Public Health.

• Ensure that the impact of the PHIU is evaluated and communicated, articulating a strong, persuasive case for further investment in data and analytics whilst ensuring that lessons are learnt for future programmes.

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Person Specification

Selection Criteria

Essential

• Criterion
• 1. The National Health Service (Appointment of Consultants) Regulations 1996 (legislation.gov.uk)
• In line with legislation, inclusion in the GMC Full and Specialist Register with a license to practice/GDC Specialist List or inclusion in the UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialists at the point of application.
• 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, UKPHR register or GDC Specialist List in dental public health must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they are within 6 months of gaining entry to a register 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 [see shortlisting notes below for additional guidance]
• Able to demonstrate commitment to continued professional and personal development and must meet minimum CPD requirements (i.e. be up to date) in accordance with Faculty of Public Health requirements or other recognised body.
• 2. MFPH by examination, by exemption or by assessment, or equivalent. Educated to masters level or equivalent senior work experience in a numerical subject, such as Maths, Economics, Epidemiology, Public Health, Operational Research, Statistics or Social Research.
• 3. Evidence of holding strong public service values and being deeply motivated to improve services and make a real difference to the health status of patients and residents. Values integrity, fairness, passion, openness, honesty, mutual respect and challenge. Understanding of the public sector duty and the inequality duty and their application to public health practice.
• 4. Self-aware and able to maintain high levels of personal performance as well as performance of teams. High level of emotional resilience to allow empathy without compromise on project aims or goals. Ability to work independently to own initiative and make autonomous decisions, prioritising own workload and directing the work others, working to tight and changing timescales.
• 5. Strategic thinker with operational nous with ability to deliver complex programmes of work through their team. Highly effective leader with ability to lead and direct others to accomplish organisational goals and objectives, being an inspiration and motivational leader. Ability to influence board-level decision making and drive change in a complex environment. Leadership qualifications or relevant training and experience.
• 6. Successful track record of working in large complex organisations and delivery of challenging programmes of work, including managing multiple stakeholders across organizational boundaries.
• 7. Confident dealing with uncertainty, demonstrating flexibility of approach and resilience to unexpected or difficult events. Experience in communicating highly complex, sensitive or contentious information about performance and change to large groups where the information has been challenged by others (who may be experts in their field) or there is resistance to the information.
• 8. Significant experience of partnership working and the ability to develop sustainable relationships with individuals, teams and organisations and build consensus. Ability to build working relationships with analytical and digital teams in partner organisations and data management/DSCRO teams.
• 9. Management qualifications or in-depth knowledge in performance management, and staff management, acquired through training or experience over extended period. Experience of negotiation on controversial issues including performance and change.
• 10. Able to establish and maintain positive relationships and mutual respect with people at all levels. Significant experience of building effective teams and networks, including across organisational boundaries. Significant experience in managing analytical projects and delivering analytical products through teams.
• 11. Ability to design, develop, interpret and implement strategies and policies, with proven project management skills. Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery.
• 12. Experience of budget setting, management and monitoring, or in-depth knowledge of financial and budgetary management, acquired through training and experience over extended period.
• 13. Excellent communication skills both written and verbal - able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive information and use persuasion, influencing and negotiation with individuals and groups including stakeholders. Excellent ability to construct correspondence and complex reports demonstrating high levels of accuracy and presentation. Ability to provide clear and confident advice, drawing on breadth of data to inform decision making.
• 14. Knowledge of data security and confidentiality issues including in particular issues relating to linked data for integrated care and excellent understanding of Information Governance. Excellent understanding of Clinical and Corporate Governance issues and in-depth knowledge of methods of developing clinical quality assurance, quality improvement, evaluations.
• 15. Excellent understanding of the current social and political environment and commitment to work within a political system irrespective of personal political affiliations.
• 16. Able to demonstrate and motivate organisations to contribute to improving the publics health and wellbeing through mainstream activities and within resources. In depth knowledge of evidence based public health practice, and understanding of the determinants of health.
• 17. Strong and demonstrable understanding of interfaces between health, social care and key partners (dealing with wider determinants of health) and in-depth professional knowledge of the health and care system, NHS strategy, policy and guidance, healthcare commissioning and delivery, and the relationships with both local and national government.
• 18. Proven experience of working in a senior leadership role at sub-board level related to the provision of analysis for health and care services or health and care policy. Ability to develop a strategic direction for data and analytics and translate into achievable objectives and plans.
• 19. High level of analytical and problem solving skills with the ability to analyse highly complex data/information/problems and make judgements/draw conclusions and able to utilize both qualitative (including health economics) and quantitative information. Significant experience of analysing and interpreting complex data and information and presenting information to senior professional groups at board level. Benchmarking, modelling and forecasting skills and experience in use of analytical techniques e.g. regression modelling, decision trees and classification.
• 20. Understanding of NHS data flows and information issues, including Data Standards, the Secondary Uses Service and commissioning information. Deep understanding of the data and analytics landscape and support services marketplace. Knowledge of how linked data can be used to improve health and an understanding of the principles and approaches to data linkage. Experience of using databases such as SQL and knowledge of data warehouse environments.

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Bedford Borough Council

Address

Borough Hall

Cauldwell Street

Bedford

Bedfordshire

MK42 9AP

Employer's website

https://www.bedford.gov.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)