Job responsibilities
Overseeing and steering an effective
programme of action across the region
that delivers on OHIDs national priorities for prevention and health disparities
and NHSEs objectives for prevention in the regions.
The RDPH will work
closely with national health improvement policy and system strategy teams to
support the translation and delivery of national public health priorities in
places and assure the effective delivery of public health programmes. This
includes acting as a regional lead on specific national programmes on behalf of
other RDsPH and working with local system partners to deliver them, developing
innovative solutions to complex challenges and sharing best practice.
Provide professional
leadership and strategic guidance working with and through other senior
regional leads, and with strong links into screening and immunisation and healthcare
public health teams, including helping to support local services to deliver
the most effective and equitable population health outcomes and supporting
delivery of high-quality local Screening and Immunisation services and other
elements of the Section 7A.
Strategic partnerships across local systems: Developing strong
relationships with and convening Local Government, ICSs, NHS and other system
partners such as academia and Other Government Departments. This aims to ensure
local strategy and interventions are joined up and effective by strengthening
links across the local system, brokering collaboration, and driving progress in
and between local organisations to ensure a joined-up approach to population
health, disparities and prevention in place.
Through these partnerships, the RDPH should drive better,
more systematic use of public health data and intelligence to drive improvements
in population health.
ICSs The
RDPH has a key role in supporting the ongoing development of ICSs in their
region, helping ICSs
to shape their public health priorities, and supporting the development of
capabilities to address these priorities; this will include the use of robust
data and intelligence, development of skills to support population healthcare,
and the sharing of best practice. As ICBs evolve and they take on
responsibility for public health programmes, the RDPH role will have a greater
focus on assurance alongside their assurance role for ICBs delivery of their
health inequality plans.
NHS England As
a member of the NHS regional senior leadership team, the RDPH has a strategic
role in delivery of the NHS long-term plan (LTP) with a particular focus on
population health, prevention and health inequalities, working in a matrix way
across the region (e.g. with HCPH teams) and providing commissioning guidance
and support. The RDPH will be asked to take on
leadership roles for NHS LTP programme areas such as Prevention and Health
Inequalities areas, which will include both an assurance and a
supportive improvement role.
Local Government the
RDPH will work with Local Government, in particular Directors of Public Health, the
Health and Wellbeing Boards and the wider local government leadership in both upper tier and
combined authorities, including working with the Metro Mayors to support the development of
effective population health services through the Regional Health and Wellbeing
Teams. They will provide support to Local Government in the continuous
improvement of public health services and strengthening oversight and assurance
of Local Government delivery on public heath objectives and improving
performance, which includes:
Delivery, assurance and enablement of
effective spending on public health programmes including supporting Local
Authorities (LAs) on how to get the most value from the public health grant and
comply with its conditions.
Supporting the Local Government
Association (LGA) and Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) on their
sector-led improvement programmes.
Using data and intelligence with LAs
and ICSs to improve local decision-making and performance on outcomes and
acting as a critical friend for LAs at risk of underperformance.
UKHSA Ensuring necessary links into UKHSA to
enable the RDPH to deliver on their health protection responsibilities which
includes:
Contributing
to health protection strategy in the regions and join up across the public
health system, for example, ensuring strong links into NHSE.
Supporting
DHSC EPRR and UKHSA in a joint system-wide approach to emergency planning and
response at a regional level.
Remaining alert and proactively
identifying and gathering intelligence on potential risks and trends where
relevant to health protection and feeding these regularly into DHSC EPRR and
UKHSA.
Academic partnerships
Ensuring strong relationships and collaboration with local academic partners
that are aligned to national and local government public health priorities
which also align with ICB priorities.
Leadership on engaging, convening and influencing a wider set of
partners to impact policy and/or delivery in a region where it relates to wider
determinants of health. The RDPH will work with colleagues
from across OHID, DHSC, and other Government Departments, using public health
expertise and strong data and analysis to demonstrate the need for and deliver
change, and strengthening engagement with academia, business and the third
sector, to inform and influence approaches to wider determinants. In some
cases, one RDPH may lead engagement with a Department or external stakeholders
on behalf of other regions.
Workforce
development: Working
with LAs, NHS organisations and OHID workforce development, as well as other
key stakeholders including UKHSA, to lead the development of public health
capacity and capability in the regional system. This includes providing
leadership for training in public health and related specialities in the
region, delivering on national workforce commitments and representing the
Secretary of State in the appointment of DsPH who are appointed jointly by the
Local Authority and the Secretary of State
Ensure that national policy and strategy
for public health is effectively informed by a better understanding of place and
by local insight. The
RPDH ensures local perspectives and intelligence are systematically fed back to
national teams across DHSC, UKHSA and other Government Departments to provide a
greater understanding of place to OHID and DHSC, as well as ensuring that OHID
products (such as data and other tools) meet local needs. The RDPH will be
expected to support specific national policy areas on behalf of the other RDsPH.
Provide visible and exemplar leadership
for the DHSC regional tier (including
Regional Health and Wellbeing
Team) and across OHID, wider DHSC and Government, with a
high-performance culture. This includes creating a dynamic and inspiring
leadership team and recruiting and retaining high calibre and motivated people
(including management of Regional
Health Promotion Teams and through strong links to teams in NHSE
including Screening & Immunisation (SITs) and HCPH.
Key
accountabilities for the role
Leading,
supporting and enabling effective delivery of national health improvement
priorities and public health programmes. Including by:
Delivering
national priorities and improvements in health outcomes and inequalities within
the regional footprint, including specific public health programmes.
Supporting LAs and
ICSs to deliver effective public health interventions for place and oversight
and assurance of local progress (and driving improvements) on public health
outcomes and inequalities. Such as providing assurance of local spending and
compliance on public health programmes including as DHSCs SRO for the public
health grant.
Providing a
visible, active public health professional leadership role within the OHID on prevention and
health disparities in place, ensuring strong visibility and links between local
and national government, helping national policy teams to navigate key local
partners, and contributing to national strategy through expertise and regional
intelligence. Reporting to the DCMO (Health Improvement).
This includes
leading a high-performing regional team (including overseeing the regional
health promotion team) that contributes to the wider corporate objectives of
the Department.
Ensuring joined up
approaches to public health, including place-based strategy development and
implementation in the regions, by building strong relationships with, and
leading strategic partnerships across, key partners in the regions including Local
Government, the NHS and ICS, and UKHSA.
Supporting and
helping to deliver the NHS broader role in prevention and health inequalities. Including
playing a key leadership role in relation to the NHS prevention programme and the health
inequalities programme in the region, building strong relationships with local NHS partners,
supporting it to deliver on its prevention commitments in the regions, and
ensuring population health benefits and equitable care are delivered through
service commissioning and healthcare planning. Also, through leading on
shaping the future population health focus of ICSs.
Leading on
development of the public health workforce in the regions and ensuring the
right capabilities and capacity in the public health system.
Supporting and
accountable for regional coordination for population health (strategy and
programmes) working with a range of partners and stakeholders through the development
of the right coordination
mechanisms that support joined up working.
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