Population Health Strategic Lead - Prevention

Job responsibilities

Dorset ICB has set up a new dedicated team to fast-track action to deliver our shared system population health priorities including addressing health inequalities, improving population health and prevention making sure that everyone gets equal outcomes from health and care services and has an equal chance of leading a healthy life.

As part of the NHS Dorset ICB Health Inequalities and Population Health Management team, the Strategic Lead for Prevention is a high-profile leadership role with significant influence across a range of stakeholders within NHS Dorset across the Integrated Care System (ICS), enabling the ICS to transform to a more preventative system across Dorset. Through previous roles, knowledge and skills and recognised expertise and leadership behaviours, the post holder will quickly build credibility with key stakeholders inside and outside the organisation.

The Strategic Lead for Prevention will be at the forefront of enabling and leading a focused programme of prevention across the ICB, wider health partners and the whole system. Providing strategic leadership to our prevention priorities and the prevention aspects of the Dorset Joint Forward Plan.

Our goal is to create a Dorset system where everyone is enabled to reach their full potential and enjoy a long and healthy life. This role will develop and deliver a programme of work to embed prevention at scale across the whole system, and working with partners seize every opportunity to play our role in enabling people to improve their health in a way that is effective and meaningful to them.

Please note we reserve the right to extend the closing date or close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible

For further information, please see full Job Description attached.

Qualifications

Essential

• Highly developed specialist knowledge and expertise of prevention, underpinned by theory and experience.
• Knowledge and expertise in health-related behaviour, and behaviour change approaches, acquired through a relevant degree, plus additional training or experience to Masters level evidenced through a relevant post graduate qualification (public health/prevention/health improvement) or equivalent experience.
• Knowledge of the application of specialist health improvement principles and approaches (for example health promotion principles and practice, research methods, health psychology, epidemiology and health economics principles) to prevention programmes.
• Highly specialised knowledge of national, regional and local policy and its relationship and application of prevention interventions.
• Evidence of continuing professional development that enhances theoretical and practical knowledge.

Experience

Essential

• Comprehensive experience in a senior role leading preventative health programmes.
• Experience of developing long term strategic prevention and health improvement programmes, working across whole systems and organisational boundaries.
• Substantial experience of providing highly specialist advice, support, and guidance on primary, secondary and tertiary prevention.
• Substantial experience of leading complex programmes requiring analysis and interpretation of data from a range of sources (including quantitative and qualitative data), to inform strategic decision making and medium- and long-term cross system objectives and outcomes.
• Substantial experience of analysing and interpreting a range of options in relation to impact of preventative interventions, assessing the evidence base, size of effect and likely outcomes.
• Experience of creating persuasive cases for change, making recommendations in the context of uncertainty where there may be a number of courses of action and/or differing views across organisations or disciplines.
• Translating national prevention health policy into tangible and credible cross system action plans.
• Experience of designing and implementing services or intervention evaluation and/or undertaking designing approaches to evaluate benefits realisation.
• Planning, developing, designing, and delivering highly complex transformational change programmes.

Skills, abilities and knowledge

Essential

• Demonstrable evidence of Prevention competences in the following areas:
• Ability to develop and systematise the use of preventative tools and techniques (for example dataanalysis and the application of the principles of behaviour change, health improvement, health promotion, epidemiology, health economics and quantitative and qualitative research methods) to inform and design medium- and long-term population health programmes across organisations at system, place, neighbourhood and person levels.
• The evidence base of effective preventative interventions including applying theory, tools, techniques and approaches for leading the design and implementation and evaluating the impact of interventions, undertaking formal research, and tracking improvement in health outcomes.
• Leading work with stakeholders to infer meaning and translate data and evidence into recommendations for policy, strategic planning, and cross system at scale action plans.
• Designing and leading and co-designing complex cross system and discipline programmes of work to deliver agreed outcomes, applying evidence-based frameworks (e.g. Population Intervention Triangle, COM-B) in the context of multiple potential approaches and uncertainty and no clear way forward.
• Ability to lead, develop and deliver effective evidence based primary, secondary and tertiary prevention interventions at scale, aiming to deliver health equity.
• Ability to lead on delivering and supporting prevention aspects of the major conditions strategy.
• Knowledge of the costs borne in late presentation and return on investment for proactive, preventative approaches to inform population health management insights.
• Demonstrable evidence of leadership skills including the following areas:
• Setting vision.
• Leading systems and across disciplines and organisational boundaries.
• Matrix management.
• Building partnerships and relationships.
• Understanding and managing context.
• Team and people development.
• Emotional intelligence.
• Relationship building.
• Tackling difficult issues.
• Strategic thinking ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise.
• Management skills: Recruitment and selection/team/performance management
• Management skills: Managing across teams and organisations.
• Management skills: Financial and risk management.
• Management skills: Coaching and mentoring.
• Management skills: Ability to adapt and respond to sudden unexpected demands.
• Communication skills: Cultural and political awareness, displaying a clear understanding of the implications of both national and local policies and their requirements.
• Communication skills: Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
• Communication skills: Able to present highly complex information (both formally and informally) to a range of internal and external stakeholders, about the scope, content and complexity associated with programme or projects aims, objectives and outcomes, with authority and credibility.
• Communication skills: Negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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