Senior Public Health Intelligence Specialist

Job summary

Are you looking for a new challenge and next step in your Public Health Intelligence career? This is an exciting opportunity to lead and develop the Public Health Intelligence function within the Barking & Dagenham Public Health team as our Senior Public Health Intelligence Specialist. This post has a crucial role in enabling public health to better support the Council and partners to ensure that decision making is routinely informed by evidence and intelligence that is tailored to the local context. This role will bring with it the responsibility and opportunity to shape the Public Health Intelligence function in collaboration with a Public Health Consultant, Director of Public Health and other key partners, to meet the needs of the Council, the Barking & Dagenham Place Based Partnership and other community organisations. The post holder will be a senior member of the public health team and contribute to leadership of the team. This role will also include opportunities to work collaboratively across the North East London Integrated Care Board.

All applications must be via the advert link below to LBBD company website

Main duties of the job

Supporting the Barking and Dagenham Place-based Partnership to

- Prioritise resource and activity effectively based upon most up to date data on population health needs and high-quality public health intelligence and analytical advice.

- Decide policy, strategy and action that is informed by the health and wellbeing needs and inequalities of the population and the opportunities to improve population health.

- Develop and appropriately use population health management approaches which have been initiated by NEL ICB and Barking and Dagenham Place-based Partnership.

Lead on the development and writing of key reports to inform planning and delivery of services, including the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment and deeper dive Needs Assessments on key prioritised areas to support delivery and planning of services and programmes. This will involve collaborating closely with key colleagues across the partnership; and bringing together quantitative and qualitative intelligence.

Assure the public health intelligence team deliver on timely collating and processing of data returns for national government that meet quality standards. (e.g., NHS Health Checks, National Child Measurement Programme).

About us

It is an exciting time to come to Barking and Dagenham. The borough is one of the fastest growing areas demographically and physically, which creates exciting opportunities for public health. A recent Local Government Association peer review on Public Health was extremely positive on the work of the Public Health Team and borough, including the Teams work leading on the development of cross sector place working. With a Gold accreditation in the Investors in People Award, the Council offers a range of benefits to support your work and wellbeing, including a positive approach to flexible working and investment in your learning and development.

Employer details

Employer name

Barking and Dagenham Council

Address

Barking and Dagenham Council

Barking Town Hall

Barking

London

IG11 7LU

Employer's website

https://www.lbbd.gov.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Barking and Dagenham Council

Address

Barking and Dagenham Council

Barking Town Hall

Barking

London

IG11 7LU

Employer's website

https://www.lbbd.gov.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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