Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, innovative Consultant in Public Health to provide leadership across health and care and help to create a healthier Greater Manchester. Since the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership was formed, changes have begun to make things better, but there is still work to do, with a clear opportunity for the right candidate to work across systems and shape the future.
We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and dynamic Consultant in Public Health who has strong technical skills and can operate in a complex and political landscape, making the most of partnerships, finding and seizing opportunity and leading across systems to deliver at pace and scale. The successful candidate will provide population health insight and a high level public health expertise into the development of a range of work programmes.
Find out more about devolution, the Partnership and our plans at https://www.gmhsc.org.uk/
Main duties of the job
The Consultant in Healthcare Public Health will oversee, coordinate and deliver high quality professional public health input, support and advice to the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership (GMHSCP) to drive improvements in outcomes and reduction in health inequalities across the population.
The Consultant in Public Health will identify future challenges to the publics health. The post holder will be embedded in the Greater Manchester Health & Social Care Partnership, as part of the devolved health and care arrangements, with a work programme agreed jointly between the GMHSCP Director Population Health and PHE North West Deputy Director Healthcare Public Health and will work effectively across directorates, teams and disciplines in the Region.
Option 3 External
Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants).
About us
PHE provides strategic leadership and vision for protecting and improving the nations health. Its ambition is to lead nationally and enable locally a transformation in the health expectations of all people in England regardless of where they live and the circumstance of their birth. It is a distinct delivery organisation with operational autonomy to advise and support Government, local authorities and the NHS in a professionally independent manner.
On 18 August 2020, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care announced plans to establish the National Institute of Health Protection and consult on the best future options for strengthening health improvement and other public health functions in the wider system. PHE and its employees will be in scope for transition to new organisations in Spring 2021. Any new or current employees working for PHE during this time, will receive appropriate consultation prior to any formal transfer taking place.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Job Specific Responsibilities
- Coordinate and oversee PHEs local input, support and advice to inform:
- needs assessment and defining of priorities to ensure population health improvement is achieved within available resources;
- commissioning and commissioning decisions in providing an evidence-based rationale in order to secure delivery;
- commissioning approaches for the whole pathway throughout the life cycle, with an emphasis on prevention (including self care);
- optimising value for the GMHSCP to provide cost effective, evidence-based solutions through health economics advice;
- maintaining and enhancing quality, improving outcomes and equity of access throughout the domains of the outcomes framework;
- supporting patient and public engagement through insight and community approaches to engagement;
- supporting the focus on health and health service inequalities through monitoring, supporting strategies, and ensuring effectiveness of interventions;
- providing the public health evidence base and the population perspective (both geographical and disease specific) to seek consensus on changes to health services that may be required;
- provide local insight into the development and delivery of the Public Health Outcomes Framework providing oversight of the agencys strategies aimed at achieving measurable improvements across a range of outcomes and indicators;
- offering leadership to GMHSCP, PHE, NHSE and other local partners in meeting their responsibilities in preventing ill health and promoting healthy living;
- lead on public health support to the Greater Manchester Population Health Plan
The successful applicant will be employed by Public Health England; embedded in the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership and reporting directly to the Director of Population Health.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Job Specific Responsibilities
- Coordinate and oversee PHEs local input, support and advice to inform:
- needs assessment and defining of priorities to ensure population health improvement is achieved within available resources;
- commissioning and commissioning decisions in providing an evidence-based rationale in order to secure delivery;
- commissioning approaches for the whole pathway throughout the life cycle, with an emphasis on prevention (including self care);
- optimising value for the GMHSCP to provide cost effective, evidence-based solutions through health economics advice;
- maintaining and enhancing quality, improving outcomes and equity of access throughout the domains of the outcomes framework;
- supporting patient and public engagement through insight and community approaches to engagement;
- supporting the focus on health and health service inequalities through monitoring, supporting strategies, and ensuring effectiveness of interventions;
- providing the public health evidence base and the population perspective (both geographical and disease specific) to seek consensus on changes to health services that may be required;
- provide local insight into the development and delivery of the Public Health Outcomes Framework providing oversight of the agencys strategies aimed at achieving measurable improvements across a range of outcomes and indicators;
- offering leadership to GMHSCP, PHE, NHSE and other local partners in meeting their responsibilities in preventing ill health and promoting healthy living;
- lead on public health support to the Greater Manchester Population Health Plan
The successful applicant will be employed by Public Health England; embedded in the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership and reporting directly to the Director of Population Health.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- 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)
- 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/UKPHR must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they are within 6 months of gaining entry at the date of interview; all other applicants must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they have applied for inclusion in the GMC/GDC/UKPHR specialist registers
- 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
- 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
Desirable
- Masters in Public Health or equivalent
Personal qualities
Essential
- Able to influence senior members including directors and CEOs
- Able to both lead teams and to able to contribute effectively in teams led by junior colleagues
- Commitment to work within a political system irrespective of personal political affiliations
Experience
Essential
- Delivery of successful change management programmes across organizational boundaries
- Experience of using complex information to explain public health issues to a range of audiences
Desirable
- Media experience demonstrating delivery of effective health behaviour or health promotion messages
Skills
Essential
- Strategic thinker with proven leadership skills and operational nous
- Able to demonstrate and motivate organisations to contribute to improving the public's health and wellbeing through mainstream activities and within resources
- Ability to lead and manage the response successfully in unplanned and unforeseen circumstances
- Analytical skills able to utilize both qualitative (including health economics) and quantitative information
- Ability to design, develop, interpret and implement strategies and policies
Knowledge
Essential
- 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, evaluation and evidence based public health practice
- Strong and demonstrable understanding of interfaces between health, social care and key partners (dealing with wider determinants of health)
- Understanding of the public sector duty and the inequality duty and their application to public health practice
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- 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)
- 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/UKPHR must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they are within 6 months of gaining entry at the date of interview; all other applicants must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they have applied for inclusion in the GMC/GDC/UKPHR specialist registers
- 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
- 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
Desirable
- Masters in Public Health or equivalent
Personal qualities
Essential
- Able to influence senior members including directors and CEOs
- Able to both lead teams and to able to contribute effectively in teams led by junior colleagues
- Commitment to work within a political system irrespective of personal political affiliations
Experience
Essential
- Delivery of successful change management programmes across organizational boundaries
- Experience of using complex information to explain public health issues to a range of audiences
Desirable
- Media experience demonstrating delivery of effective health behaviour or health promotion messages
Skills
Essential
- Strategic thinker with proven leadership skills and operational nous
- Able to demonstrate and motivate organisations to contribute to improving the public's health and wellbeing through mainstream activities and within resources
- Ability to lead and manage the response successfully in unplanned and unforeseen circumstances
- Analytical skills able to utilize both qualitative (including health economics) and quantitative information
- Ability to design, develop, interpret and implement strategies and policies
Knowledge
Essential
- 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, evaluation and evidence based public health practice
- Strong and demonstrable understanding of interfaces between health, social care and key partners (dealing with wider determinants of health)
- Understanding of the public sector duty and the inequality duty and their application to public health practice
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
