Devon Health Inequalities Fellows (8 Posts Available)

Job description

Job responsibilities

About your role

This section details the outcomes and deliverables that would be expected from the role. It may include other outcomes by agreement with your Associate Post-Graduate Dean.

Engaging People/Key Working relationships

• Apply systems thinking approach to identify and work with all key stakeholders in the given locality, including Primary Care Networks, ICB and voluntary sector
• Liaise with the Clinical Leadership Team at Devon Training Hub to ensure good exchange of plans, ideas and information
• Attend local peer learning groups and action learning sets and optional participation in the national education programme relating to health inequalities
• Work with multi-professional members of the PCN team to support their understanding of Health Inequalities and their role in reducing them
• Liaise with previous and existing health inequality fellows to share learning and develop existing initiatives where appropriate

Delivering Results/Functional Responsibilities

Identify issues at PCN level pertaining to Health Inequalities and develop a quality improvement project to address this

Write up and present your project in line with agreed guidelines from the Devon Training Hub

Agree an educational professional development plan with the Devon Training Hub Clinical Leadership Team, identifying your own learning needs and areas you might like to upskill

Participate in and support the delivery of Health Inequality related events in Devon

Disseminate learning about how to reduce health inequalities across the Primary care network and regionally where appropriate

Management and leadership

Use leadership skills across health care boundaries (both environmental and professional)

Working with health organisation leads and system partners to develop projects that support system needs

Liaise with Primary Care leads and other interested parties to share learning and outcomes of projects and fellowship as whole

Utilise your position and your relationship with system stakeholders/networks to raise awareness of health inequalities across Devon

Being a positive advocate for Devon Training Hub and vulnerable/diverse communities in Devon

Setting Direction and Service Improvement

Working ICB Health Inequality leads to ensure projects and activity align with system priorities in reducing health inequalities

Using QI methodology to assess service improvement delivered by project

Ensure any successes or learning about service improvement are shared with other PCNs/Stakeholder for wider impact

Person Specification

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Proven leadership abilities
• Evidence of strategic thinking
• Well-developed verbal and written communication skills
• Good negotiating skills
• Ability to delegate appropriately
• Evidence of good working relationships with professional colleagues
• Computer literacy
• Editorial skills

Qualifications

Essential

• General practitioner with MRCGP

Experience

Essential

• Understanding of Primary Care in England and its interface with secondary care
• Understanding of current primary health care general issues
• Proven experience of regularly working as a clinician in general practice, after completion of vocational training, with current full registration with the GMC
• Current clinical commitment of not less than 3 sessions a week
• Participated in formal training programmes in general practice
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Behaviours & Values

Essential

• Proactive approach
• Ability to travel
• Team based collaborative approach
• Comfortable with change
• Keen networker
• Establishes good working relationships easily with multi-disciplinary team members

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

Devon Training Hub

Address

Plymouth Science Park

Unit 1, 5 Research Way

Plymouth

Devon

PL6 8BT

Employer's website

https://www.devontraininghub.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)