Job summary
oin our friendly and supportive Tobacco control sub-team, of the Healthy team to advance your career in Public Health whilst playing a key role in addressing health inequalities and preventing ill-health in our communities. We are part of the wider Hampshire and Isle of Wight Public Health Team who enjoy the challenge of working innovatively to ensure continuous improvement of public health initiatives and driving them through to completion.Working closely with services across the Hampshire system, you will specifically focus on partnership working and implementing new projects to facilitate engagement and support of partners across the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Health and Care system to deliver the Hampshire County Councils Smokefree 2030 ambitions, thereby improving Countywide public health outcomes.
You will use your excellent relationship building and communication skills to work effectively with a wide variety of partners to achieve a smokefree generation in Hampshire.
Main duties of the job
This is a brand-new role, giving you the opportunity to bring your unique touch to the role, whilst working autonomously and within a vibrant team. A Masters in Public Health is essential (or Masters in a related field or working towards this) and relevant senior experience of working in Tobacco Control across Health and Care systems is essential, including detailed knowledge of partnership working to effect last change in building sustainable smokefree cultures across complex systems.
About us
In return, we are committed to your continued personal development and offer an extensive Benefits Package.
Please note that you must have the right to work in the UK to be eligible for this role.
The central office for this role is in Winchester, however you will be required to travel frequently to various locations within Hampshire, and you must be able to travel across Hampshire on a regular basis, but do not necessarily need a license nor vehicle.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Strategy and Planning
- Contribute to the development and implementation of the Smokefree Generation for Hampshire Programme
- Contribute to, and lead on some aspects of programme implementation to improve the health outcomes of our population in line with the Hampshire Public Health Strategy and other key policies.
- Generate and apply insight data to inform the development of targeted interventions with communities at high risk of poorer outcomes to reduce inequalities.
- Develop and maintain an understanding of the evidence base for Tobacco Control and Smoking Cessation as well as general Public Health competencies e.g. the Tobacco Control Plan for England, What good Looks Like - Tobacco Control, Smoking and Tobacco related National Standards and evidence-based behaviour change approaches.
- Develop evidence-based outcome measures to be able to monitor, evaluate and report on the performance of public health services/programmes/projects and key public health outcomes
- Build links with the Tobacco Control Leads at Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID), regionally and nationally.
- Advise senior management on the interpretation and implementation of key national policy and guidance relevant to Tobacco Control
- Support the Consultant in Public Health and the Public Health Principal to provide systems leadership for Smoking Cessation, Tobacco Control, supporting in options appraisals and making evidence-based recommendations to the Public Health Management Team.
- Contribute to reports and briefing papers to support the Hampshire County Council governance and decision-making processes relevant to this role.
- Develop programmes/pilot interventions to address Public Health priorities relevant to the Healthy Lives section of the Public Health Strategy.
- Flexibly to respond to business needs of the Public Health Team, including working across other Public Health portfolio areas.
Commissioning, Procurement and Service Delivery
- Contribute to improving outcomes for smokers in Hampshire and their families by supporting the commissioning and delivery of the Smokefree Hampshire Service.
- Contribute to or lead on the commissioning of programmes to support the Smokefree Hampshire 2030 Tobacco Control Action Plan.
- Contribute to the range of health needs assessments in relation to Tobacco Control and as directed by the Public Health Management Team.
- Develop service specifications for services that are consistent with national guidance and effectively meet local need.
- Provide day to day support for the Tobacco Control programme and Tobacco Control Alliance work, including delegation to administrative staff and responding to queries from Primary Care and wider system partners, including queries related to contractual agreements and performance-related data.
- Lead on or contribute to service reviews; identify strengths, weaknesses and gaps; develop reports and proposals to help ensure that services optimise Public Health outcomes for Hampshire residents and deliver value for money.
- Work with the lead commissioner to ensure effective mobilisation and implementation of any new contracts for the SFH 2030 Tobacco Control programme.
- Manage delegated budgets, ensuring resources are utilised effectively and deliver best value.
Performance, Quality Assurance and Service Development
- Support the development and delivery of a quality assurance process for the Smokefree Hampshire 2030 Tobacco Control programme using national programme standards and framework for quality improvement; as well as learning from exemplar local areas.
- Contribute to contract performance review meetings (CRM) for the Smokefree Hampshire Service and the lead performance meetings for the Young Peoples Smoking Prevention Programme.
- Review and interpret key performance data and provider reports for the contract review meetings; identify areas for further investigation and contract queries.
- Identify areas for improvement in performance and work with providers to agree plans to address these and monitor delivery.
- Prepare or contribute to reports and briefings on performance and quality for the Public Health Quality & Performance Meetings and Management Team.
Service User Involvement and Engagement
- Develop processes to engage with and involve service users, Hampshire residents and relevant partners to shape future service development and improve population outcomes.
- Contribute to the development of Public Health Social Marketing campaigns and develop reactive and proactive communications to stakeholders and partners.
Partnerships and Innovation
- Manage, develop and sustain key working relationships with a range of partners/partnerships and key stakeholders including service providers, District Councils, the Voluntary and Private sectors.
- Work with partners in a place-based context to ensure collective action to shape peoples health and wellbeing outcomes in their places, such as Districts and Boroughs or Primary Care Networks (PCNs).
- Provide specialist public health advice and support to key stakeholders and partners.
- Advise and support the development and evaluation of key programmes and pilot projects as required.
- Represent the Public Health Department on one of the District Health and Wellbeing Partnerships, providing access to specialist advice across the spectrum of Public Health.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Strategy and Planning
- Contribute to the development and implementation of the Smokefree Generation for Hampshire Programme
- Contribute to, and lead on some aspects of programme implementation to improve the health outcomes of our population in line with the Hampshire Public Health Strategy and other key policies.
- Generate and apply insight data to inform the development of targeted interventions with communities at high risk of poorer outcomes to reduce inequalities.
- Develop and maintain an understanding of the evidence base for Tobacco Control and Smoking Cessation as well as general Public Health competencies e.g. the Tobacco Control Plan for England, What good Looks Like - Tobacco Control, Smoking and Tobacco related National Standards and evidence-based behaviour change approaches.
- Develop evidence-based outcome measures to be able to monitor, evaluate and report on the performance of public health services/programmes/projects and key public health outcomes
- Build links with the Tobacco Control Leads at Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID), regionally and nationally.
- Advise senior management on the interpretation and implementation of key national policy and guidance relevant to Tobacco Control
- Support the Consultant in Public Health and the Public Health Principal to provide systems leadership for Smoking Cessation, Tobacco Control, supporting in options appraisals and making evidence-based recommendations to the Public Health Management Team.
- Contribute to reports and briefing papers to support the Hampshire County Council governance and decision-making processes relevant to this role.
- Develop programmes/pilot interventions to address Public Health priorities relevant to the Healthy Lives section of the Public Health Strategy.
- Flexibly to respond to business needs of the Public Health Team, including working across other Public Health portfolio areas.
Commissioning, Procurement and Service Delivery
- Contribute to improving outcomes for smokers in Hampshire and their families by supporting the commissioning and delivery of the Smokefree Hampshire Service.
- Contribute to or lead on the commissioning of programmes to support the Smokefree Hampshire 2030 Tobacco Control Action Plan.
- Contribute to the range of health needs assessments in relation to Tobacco Control and as directed by the Public Health Management Team.
- Develop service specifications for services that are consistent with national guidance and effectively meet local need.
- Provide day to day support for the Tobacco Control programme and Tobacco Control Alliance work, including delegation to administrative staff and responding to queries from Primary Care and wider system partners, including queries related to contractual agreements and performance-related data.
- Lead on or contribute to service reviews; identify strengths, weaknesses and gaps; develop reports and proposals to help ensure that services optimise Public Health outcomes for Hampshire residents and deliver value for money.
- Work with the lead commissioner to ensure effective mobilisation and implementation of any new contracts for the SFH 2030 Tobacco Control programme.
- Manage delegated budgets, ensuring resources are utilised effectively and deliver best value.
Performance, Quality Assurance and Service Development
- Support the development and delivery of a quality assurance process for the Smokefree Hampshire 2030 Tobacco Control programme using national programme standards and framework for quality improvement; as well as learning from exemplar local areas.
- Contribute to contract performance review meetings (CRM) for the Smokefree Hampshire Service and the lead performance meetings for the Young Peoples Smoking Prevention Programme.
- Review and interpret key performance data and provider reports for the contract review meetings; identify areas for further investigation and contract queries.
- Identify areas for improvement in performance and work with providers to agree plans to address these and monitor delivery.
- Prepare or contribute to reports and briefings on performance and quality for the Public Health Quality & Performance Meetings and Management Team.
Service User Involvement and Engagement
- Develop processes to engage with and involve service users, Hampshire residents and relevant partners to shape future service development and improve population outcomes.
- Contribute to the development of Public Health Social Marketing campaigns and develop reactive and proactive communications to stakeholders and partners.
Partnerships and Innovation
- Manage, develop and sustain key working relationships with a range of partners/partnerships and key stakeholders including service providers, District Councils, the Voluntary and Private sectors.
- Work with partners in a place-based context to ensure collective action to shape peoples health and wellbeing outcomes in their places, such as Districts and Boroughs or Primary Care Networks (PCNs).
- Provide specialist public health advice and support to key stakeholders and partners.
- Advise and support the development and evaluation of key programmes and pilot projects as required.
- Represent the Public Health Department on one of the District Health and Wellbeing Partnerships, providing access to specialist advice across the spectrum of Public Health.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Essential Qualifications
- Educated to Masters degree level in Public Health or a related field or working towards this.
- Desirable Qualifications
- Public Health Practitioner registration UKPHR register (or willingness to work towards registration)
- Project Management Qualification
- Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- Expert/specialist knowledge in Public Health at a population level and the broader Public Health agenda preferably in Tobacco Control
- This must include experience of implementing health or health related strategies and policies, project managing public health programmes and managing and facilitating change.
- Strong Public health experience, including project managing public health programmes, implementing health related strategies and policies.
- Good understanding of the wider determinants of health and inequalities and current public health policy.
- General understanding of Public Health and the concepts, principles and models underpinning health improvement.
- Understanding of how the Tobacco Control agenda fits into the wider Hampshire health and social care system
- Experience of collaborative multi-agency/multi-disciplinary working and ability to engage and work with people at all levels, including harder-to-reach communities.
- Ability to analyse complex datasets and performance data and present complex data clearly and concisely to audiences of all capabilities and attitudes.
- Understanding of evidence-based policy and practice, epidemiology and research methods and their application to public health policy and practice
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to use effective influencing and negotiation skills in and beyond own organisation.
- Strong project management skills and the ability to innovate.
- Evidence of ability to build effective relationships and credibility with a wide range of professional groups and organisations.
- Able to manage and prioritise a range of complex and diverse issues simultaneously and competing priorities.
- Understanding of local authority and NHS context and awareness of working in a political environment.
- Service redesign experience and understanding of procuring and commissioning Health and Social Care Services
- Experience of leading consultation and engagement processes with an understanding of survey design and development.
- Experience of working diverse partners ay system level with an understanding of their key priorities and challenges and how to align these with a Public Health agenda, preferably Tobacco Control
- Competent IT skills including Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, databases, email and internet.
Desirable
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Essential Qualifications
- Educated to Masters degree level in Public Health or a related field or working towards this.
- Desirable Qualifications
- Public Health Practitioner registration UKPHR register (or willingness to work towards registration)
- Project Management Qualification
- Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- Expert/specialist knowledge in Public Health at a population level and the broader Public Health agenda preferably in Tobacco Control
- This must include experience of implementing health or health related strategies and policies, project managing public health programmes and managing and facilitating change.
- Strong Public health experience, including project managing public health programmes, implementing health related strategies and policies.
- Good understanding of the wider determinants of health and inequalities and current public health policy.
- General understanding of Public Health and the concepts, principles and models underpinning health improvement.
- Understanding of how the Tobacco Control agenda fits into the wider Hampshire health and social care system
- Experience of collaborative multi-agency/multi-disciplinary working and ability to engage and work with people at all levels, including harder-to-reach communities.
- Ability to analyse complex datasets and performance data and present complex data clearly and concisely to audiences of all capabilities and attitudes.
- Understanding of evidence-based policy and practice, epidemiology and research methods and their application to public health policy and practice
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to use effective influencing and negotiation skills in and beyond own organisation.
- Strong project management skills and the ability to innovate.
- Evidence of ability to build effective relationships and credibility with a wide range of professional groups and organisations.
- Able to manage and prioritise a range of complex and diverse issues simultaneously and competing priorities.
- Understanding of local authority and NHS context and awareness of working in a political environment.
- Service redesign experience and understanding of procuring and commissioning Health and Social Care Services
- Experience of leading consultation and engagement processes with an understanding of survey design and development.
- Experience of working diverse partners ay system level with an understanding of their key priorities and challenges and how to align these with a Public Health agenda, preferably Tobacco Control
- Competent IT skills including Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, databases, email and internet.
Desirable
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.
