Consultant In Public Health

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will provide high level public health expertise into the development of a range of projects, with scope to include in-depth development of individual clinical services through to high level horizon scanning of future Trust activity, service models and clinical innovation, and the continued development of our future estate and service strategies.

The post holder will work in partnership with the current Public Health Consultant and local Public Health teams, joint commissioning teams, place based partnerships, Primary care, Primary care Networks, ICB and will collaboratively with their peers through the public health consultants network to support the development of the North East and North Cumbria population health.

The post holder will progress the Trust's contribution to health improvement for patients, their families, staff and the wider population, by developing and implementing public health strategies within the Trust and its communities.

The post holder will be required to work with senior clinicians, managers and health care professionals, on complex issues where public health input is required across all domains of public health.

The post holder will make recommendations regarding services, patient care, estate and wider determinants of health. This is likely to include innovating in how the Trust uses clinical information, and the implementation of new tools to assist in decision making, forward planning, and service monitoring and evaluation.

The post holder will be expected to cope with multiple and changing demands, and to meet tight deadlines. A high level of intellectual rigour, political awareness, negotiation and motivation skills and flexibility are required.

A high level of tact, diplomacy and leadership will be required, and an ability to understand other cultures, advise, challenge and advocate to enable effective working across organisational boundaries and influencing without direct authority

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Provide expert public health advice and leadership for tackling healthcare inequalities to support and inform an evidence based and equitable approach in line with Organisation and System objectives, with a scope from individual clinical services through to whole system, place based partnerships, neighbourhoods or network planning, including the development of business cases, service reviews and healthcare needs assessments

2. Champion the implementation of relevant health intelligence capture, analysis and display techniques, to enhance the ability of the Organisation, Place and System to understand the care it provides, and to ensure continuing progress towards higher quality, safer care for our population

3. Embed approaches to tackle healthcare inequalities across the organisation, system, place and neighbourhoods through providing expert public health focussed input to future healthcare strategies, including analysis and forecasting of data for inpatients, outpatients and emergency attendances, and on ensuring that robust clinical epidemiology, alongside demographic and other population data, is readily available for use and active service evaluation

4. Have responsibility for establishing and maintaining high levels of engagement with relevant inter-agency, regional, and national strategy proposals and policy consultations affecting the Organisation

5. Provide expert support on the role of the NHS as anchor institutions and working through working in collaboration with local government, in particular local Directors of Public Health, through formal and informal relationships, to develop and implement policy and strategy that supports the health of the population.

6. Provide expert public health advice and leadership to support and inform an evidence-based and equitable approach to enable the Organisation to fulfil its role as a key partner in delivering its services, in partnership with primary, secondary and social care, and across sectors including commissioning agencies, local authorities, voluntary sector, and other partners

7. Undertake, commission or collaborate on research and audit activity where necessary and translate research findings into practice.

8. Develop public health promotion programmes within the Organisation, for patients, carers, staff and drive the dissemination of good practice across the Organisation developing the Organisation's role as a health promoting hospital

9. Design and deliver a training programme and placement for the training of a Specialty Registrar in Public Health placed at the organisation, and contribute to the wider education and continued professional development of the staff base particularly in health intelligence skills

10. Support the North East and North Cumbria population health offer and work with the ADPH networks as well as the public health consultants in NHS provider organisations network.

11. Undertake an annual professional appraisal including completion of a programme of CPD, in accordance with Faculty of Public Health requirements, or other recognised body, and undertake revalidation, audit or other measures required to remain on the GMC/GDC Specialist Register or the UK Public Health (Specialist) Register or other specialist register as appropriate. Supervision and appraisal will be undertaken by the Foundation Trust Medical Director in partnership with the local Director of public.

Person Specification

Statutory Registration

Essential

• Full GMC Registration (see above)

Special Requirements

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
• Ability to travel independently across Trust sites and attend meetings nationwide

Experience

Essential

• Delivery of successful change management programmes across organisational 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

Special Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Strategic thinker with proven leadership skills and operational nous
• Able to demonstrate and motivate organisations to contribute to improving the publics 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 utilise both qualitative (including health economics) and quantitative information
• Ability to design, develop, interpret and implement strategies and policies
• 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 , evaluations 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

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) or
• Inclusion in the UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialists (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
• If an applicant is non-UK trained, they will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT
• 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 level qualification in Public Health or equivalent

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Darlington Memorial Hospital NHS Trust

Hollyhurst Road

Darlington

County Durham

DL3 6HX

Employer's website

https://www.cddft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)