Job summary
The
Deputy Director Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service (LKIS) will lead
local knowledge and intelligence teams which provide regional population health
intelligence and surveillance support to local health and care systems
This is a post for a CPH/CPHM
post employed by the DHSC based at various locations across the English regions
The post-holder is a health professional treating a population/community. The
populations served are the regions of England.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will oversee
arrangements to provide effective local-national engagement on population
health. They will have a key role in working with national and regional
stakeholders including Regional Directors of Public Health to provide system
leadership in population health intelligence as a key component of population
health management (PHM) and Integrated Care System and Boards.
They will support an integrated
and user centred approach to developing and brokering access to national
population health analytics tools and support offers. This will require working
with key local partners from public, private and academic sectors to build
capacity and expertise in population health intelligence and analytics.
They will manage cross-cutting
regional capacity and resources in analytics, knowledge mobilisation and
analytical workforce development, identifying at-scale opportunities and
sharing good practice to support local government and wider integrated health
and care systems. This will include leadership of training and workforce
development activities, including apprenticeships.
About us
LKIS
contributes to achieving the DHSC purpose by delivering analysis, training and
insight. Part of the DHSC Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID),
LKIS works as a distributed network with a team in each of the seven health
regions. Our goal is to support more effective and efficient regional &
local health intelligence systems and improved data-informed decision-making on
health and care. Based within the Public Health Regions Directorate, each
regional LKIS team works as part of the OHID public health regional team, led
by the Regional Director of Public Health. The regional team works closely with
health intelligence specialists and other partners in local systems
Job description
Job responsibilities
The
role will include working across DHSC, NHSE and UKHSA in support of local
health and care systems working with Local Government and ICBs to deliver the
DHSC goal for improving health and reducing health inequalities.
As Deputy Director Local Knowledge and
Intelligence Service, your responsibilities will be:
- Management and Leadership: Be a positive
role model and an effective member of the DHSC Places & Regions Senior Leadership
team.
- Lead the function to deliver defined
outputs to the required quality, within budget and on-time.
- Take measures to continually develop and
improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the function.
- Develop staff members to be the best they
can be through robust internal communications appropriate delegation, effective
appraisal and mentoring, and visible leadership.
- Ensure that staff engagement, as measured
by the annual staff survey, in the function is high and improvements are made,
year on year.
- Develop innovative practice and service
delivery models, both within the DHSC Places & Regions, OHID and beyond,
involving other staff groups as appropriate.
- Work with colleagues across DHSC and ALBs
to identify and ensure the maintenance of business-critical activities.
- Ensure the business and budgetary planning
processes are fully in place and functioning effectively, reporting to agreed
standards and timescales.
- Ensure succession planning within the
function, responsible for the retention, recruitment, interviewing, selection,
and induction of new staff in the function.
- Ensure effective governance of the function
through a process of management team meetings and review of relevant governance
issues including health and safety and risk. Resolve complaints, grievances,
capability, and disciplinary issues at the appropriate level. Providing
leadership in a changing environment. Act on behalf of the Regional Director with
responsibility for Public Health Intelligence as required.
- In
delivering the strategic objectives the post-holder will be expected to
demonstrate expertise in the full range of relevant competencies as set out by
the Faculty of Public Health. This includes evaluation techniques, policy
analysis and translation and ability to communicate effectively with a range of
stakeholders including politicians. In addition to any direct responsibility
for managing staff or budgets, he/she will be responsible for change and
improvement in the agreed areas of work and for supporting the delivery of DHSC
responsibilities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The
role will include working across DHSC, NHSE and UKHSA in support of local
health and care systems working with Local Government and ICBs to deliver the
DHSC goal for improving health and reducing health inequalities.
As Deputy Director Local Knowledge and
Intelligence Service, your responsibilities will be:
- Management and Leadership: Be a positive
role model and an effective member of the DHSC Places & Regions Senior Leadership
team.
- Lead the function to deliver defined
outputs to the required quality, within budget and on-time.
- Take measures to continually develop and
improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the function.
- Develop staff members to be the best they
can be through robust internal communications appropriate delegation, effective
appraisal and mentoring, and visible leadership.
- Ensure that staff engagement, as measured
by the annual staff survey, in the function is high and improvements are made,
year on year.
- Develop innovative practice and service
delivery models, both within the DHSC Places & Regions, OHID and beyond,
involving other staff groups as appropriate.
- Work with colleagues across DHSC and ALBs
to identify and ensure the maintenance of business-critical activities.
- Ensure the business and budgetary planning
processes are fully in place and functioning effectively, reporting to agreed
standards and timescales.
- Ensure succession planning within the
function, responsible for the retention, recruitment, interviewing, selection,
and induction of new staff in the function.
- Ensure effective governance of the function
through a process of management team meetings and review of relevant governance
issues including health and safety and risk. Resolve complaints, grievances,
capability, and disciplinary issues at the appropriate level. Providing
leadership in a changing environment. Act on behalf of the Regional Director with
responsibility for Public Health Intelligence as required.
- In
delivering the strategic objectives the post-holder will be expected to
demonstrate expertise in the full range of relevant competencies as set out by
the Faculty of Public Health. This includes evaluation techniques, policy
analysis and translation and ability to communicate effectively with a range of
stakeholders including politicians. In addition to any direct responsibility
for managing staff or budgets, he/she will be responsible for change and
improvement in the agreed areas of work and for supporting the delivery of DHSC
responsibilities.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Please read the attached job description for the full person specification for this role.
- To apply for the role it is essential that you meet the qualification requirements:
- 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
- Any public health speciality registrar applicants who are currently on the UK public health training programme and not yet on either the GMC, GDC or UKPHR specialist register 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)
- Applicants must meet minimum CPD requirements (i.e. be up to date) in accordance with Faculty of Public Health requirements or other recognised body
- MFPH by examination, by exemption or by assessment, or equivalent
Desirable
- Masters in Public Health or equivalent
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Please read the attached job description for the full person specification for this role.
- To apply for the role it is essential that you meet the qualification requirements:
- 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
- Any public health speciality registrar applicants who are currently on the UK public health training programme and not yet on either the GMC, GDC or UKPHR specialist register 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)
- Applicants must meet minimum CPD requirements (i.e. be up to date) in accordance with Faculty of Public Health requirements or other recognised body
- MFPH by examination, by exemption or by assessment, or equivalent
Desirable
- Masters in Public Health or equivalent
Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
