Job summary
Are you a Consultant in Public Health with ambition, energy and vision? If so, Nottinghamshire County Council has an exciting opportunity for you, working within a strong Public Health team to create change for our residents.
Health improvement and reducing inequalities are key to the Council's plan to deliver a healthier, greener and more prosperous Nottinghamshire. Nottinghamshire has an active Health and Wellbeing Board and a Joint Health & Wellbeing Strategy with ambitions and priorities reflected in the Integrated Care Plan for Nottingham & Nottinghamshire.
You would be part of a friendly Public Health division, led by the Director of Public Health, Deputy Director and four other Consultants. The wider team comprises over 60 colleagues bringing a range of multi-disciplinary skills and experiences. Our cultural priorities value outcomes, collaboration, nurturing potential, and strengthening the support and challenge we bring to each other.
If you have the ambition and expertise to help us make an impact for our residents, we want to hear from you.
You will require inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List/UK Public Health Register for Public Health Specialists or within 6 months of gaining entry at interview date.
Our preference is for applications through the Councils system search online for Nottinghamshire County Council vacancies.
Provisional interview date: 19 September 2023.
Main duties of the job
As Consultant in Public Health you will be stimulated by a portfolio which spans the domains of Public Health to stretch and develop you.
The successful candidate will join a vibrant Council with engaged political leadership and a commitment to cross Council working to deliver better outcomes for residents, especially who are those least advantaged.
The post holder will take responsibility for a strategic objective of the local authority and the Health & Wellbeing Board and act as a change agent to enable delivery of relevant outcome indicators from the public health, NHS and social care outcome frameworks. They will work across organisations, be able to influence budgets held by those organisations as well as to advocate for change effectively. They may hold direct managerial responsibility for services and budgets which directly contribute to these objectives and will also have substantial strategic responsibilities across the Council and other agencies.
The post holder will be expected to have been certified by the Faculty of Public Health (FPH) as having specialist expertise across the full range of competencies as set out by the FPH. In negotiation with the DPH, the post holder may be asked to take on responsibilities that are underpinned by any of the FPH competencies. Post holders will be expected to maintain both general expertise as well as develop topic based expertise as required by the DPH.
Please see the attached job description for more details.
About us
Nottinghamshire is a diverse County, consisting of a mix of
urban and rural areas, with significant areas of deprivation and health
challenges.
Nottinghamshire County Council is an upper-tier local authority
with responsibility for key service areas that support local communities in
Nottinghamshire. Serving a population of nearly 800,000, of whom nearly 200,000
are children, the Council is involved in providing care for children, adults
and for those with special needs; the provision of education; public health;
transport and roads; waste and recycling; planning and the environment; the
registering of births, deaths, marriage and civil partnerships; emergency
planning and trading standards. County Councillors, elected every four years,
represent residents and provide leadership across the Council. The ambition and
priorities of the Council are set out in the Nottinghamshire Plan.
Nottinghamshire County Council has a NHS Pension Direction Order
in place, which means that we are able to provide ongoing access to the NHS
Pension Scheme (NHSPS) where we recruit eligible new joiners to Public Health
roles who are currently in the NHSPS.
Post holders will be primarily based at County Hall, Nottinghamshire.
The Council has adopted a hybrid working arrangement, which will allow
employees to work from home, as well as come into the office.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached file labelled 'Public Health Consultant Job Description' for more information.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached file labelled 'Public Health Consultant Job Description' for more information.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- 1. Inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List/UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialists (or within 6 months of gaining entry at interview date) - This entails a Masters programme plus further specialist training and formal certification of competency against the full range of competencies in the FPH curriculum.
- 2. 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 medicine practice.
- 3. 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.
- 4. Applicants must meet minimum CPD requirements (ie be up to date) in accordance with Faculty of Public Health requirements or other recognised body.
- 5. Membership of the Faculty of Public Health (MFPH) by examination, by exemption or by assessment.
- 6. Masters degree or equivalent.
- 7. In-depth understanding of NHS and local government cultures, structures and policies.
- 8. In-depth knowledge of methods of developing clinical quality assurance, quality improvement and evidence based clinical and/or public health practice.
- 9. Strong and demonstrable understanding of interfaces between health, social care and key partners (dealing with wider determinants of health).
Experience
Essential
- 1. Delivery of successful change management projects against defined outcomes within the available resources in a range of areas.
- 2. Supporting and managing a range of staff.
- 3. Management or support in health protection situations.
- 4. Use of a range of media to deliver effective health behaviour or health promotion messages.
- 5. Experience of using complex information to explain public health issues to a range of audiences.
Personal Skills and General Competencies
Essential
- 1. Able to lead and work within teams to deliver a set of outcomes successfully.
- 2. Demonstrates expertise and commitment to public health principles.
- 3. Commitment to working with range of stakeholders and communities to deliver health improvements.
- 4. Strategic thinker with proven leadership skills.
- 5. Excellent oral and written communication skills (including dealing with the media) in a number of situations; able to translate complex data into clear messages.
- 6. Able to lead and manage change successfully both within and across organisations, including in unplanned and unforeseen circumstances.
- 7. Substantially numerate, with highly developed skills for the critical appraisal and synthesis of complex scientific data from peer reviewed research and other sources including both qualitative (eg health economics) and quantitative information.
- 8. Ability to design, develop, interpret and implement strategies and policies.
- 9. Ability to deal with complex public health challenges in a multi-organisational environment with widely differing governance and finance systems, often with no direct management (or other types of) authority.
- 10. Ability to cope with multiple and changing demands, and complex interdependencies across the whole system, and to meet tight deadlines.
- 11. A high level of intellectual rigour, political awareness and negotiation and motivation skills as well as flexibility and sensitivity.
- 12. A high level of tact, diplomacy and leadership is required, including the ability to work within political and other systems and at the same time maintain the ability to challenge and advocate for effective working within the local authority at senior level and across organisational boundaries in order to achieve public health outcomes.
- 13. Resilience and flexibility to secure long term objectives in a strongly contested multi-professional, multi-agency environment.
- 14. Able to provide educational supervision and effective teaching for public health specialist registrars, foundation year doctors, and other medical staff on secondment to public health.
- 15. Able to influence senior members including directors and CEOs.
- 16. Able to demonstrate motivation of organisations to contribute to improving the publics health and wellbeing through mainstream activities and within resources.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- 1. Inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List/UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialists (or within 6 months of gaining entry at interview date) - This entails a Masters programme plus further specialist training and formal certification of competency against the full range of competencies in the FPH curriculum.
- 2. 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 medicine practice.
- 3. 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.
- 4. Applicants must meet minimum CPD requirements (ie be up to date) in accordance with Faculty of Public Health requirements or other recognised body.
- 5. Membership of the Faculty of Public Health (MFPH) by examination, by exemption or by assessment.
- 6. Masters degree or equivalent.
- 7. In-depth understanding of NHS and local government cultures, structures and policies.
- 8. In-depth knowledge of methods of developing clinical quality assurance, quality improvement and evidence based clinical and/or public health practice.
- 9. Strong and demonstrable understanding of interfaces between health, social care and key partners (dealing with wider determinants of health).
Experience
Essential
- 1. Delivery of successful change management projects against defined outcomes within the available resources in a range of areas.
- 2. Supporting and managing a range of staff.
- 3. Management or support in health protection situations.
- 4. Use of a range of media to deliver effective health behaviour or health promotion messages.
- 5. Experience of using complex information to explain public health issues to a range of audiences.
Personal Skills and General Competencies
Essential
- 1. Able to lead and work within teams to deliver a set of outcomes successfully.
- 2. Demonstrates expertise and commitment to public health principles.
- 3. Commitment to working with range of stakeholders and communities to deliver health improvements.
- 4. Strategic thinker with proven leadership skills.
- 5. Excellent oral and written communication skills (including dealing with the media) in a number of situations; able to translate complex data into clear messages.
- 6. Able to lead and manage change successfully both within and across organisations, including in unplanned and unforeseen circumstances.
- 7. Substantially numerate, with highly developed skills for the critical appraisal and synthesis of complex scientific data from peer reviewed research and other sources including both qualitative (eg health economics) and quantitative information.
- 8. Ability to design, develop, interpret and implement strategies and policies.
- 9. Ability to deal with complex public health challenges in a multi-organisational environment with widely differing governance and finance systems, often with no direct management (or other types of) authority.
- 10. Ability to cope with multiple and changing demands, and complex interdependencies across the whole system, and to meet tight deadlines.
- 11. A high level of intellectual rigour, political awareness and negotiation and motivation skills as well as flexibility and sensitivity.
- 12. A high level of tact, diplomacy and leadership is required, including the ability to work within political and other systems and at the same time maintain the ability to challenge and advocate for effective working within the local authority at senior level and across organisational boundaries in order to achieve public health outcomes.
- 13. Resilience and flexibility to secure long term objectives in a strongly contested multi-professional, multi-agency environment.
- 14. Able to provide educational supervision and effective teaching for public health specialist registrars, foundation year doctors, and other medical staff on secondment to public health.
- 15. Able to influence senior members including directors and CEOs.
- 16. Able to demonstrate motivation of organisations to contribute to improving the publics health and wellbeing through mainstream activities and within resources.
Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
