Public Health Consultant

Job responsibilities

Management and Leadership

• Line managing the revalidation & appraisal and Training & Workforce teams.
• Deputise for the Deputy Director Deputy Director, Clinical Governance, Medical & Public Health Training, Workforce and Revalidation; and Caldicott Guardian in leading the divisions development, business planning, HR and financial management.
• Support the implementation of the UKHSA Health Protection Quality and Clinical Governance strategy working with the DD Revalidation & Clinical Governance and/or the Head of Clinical Excellence and Quality on quality improvement and establishing risk and assurance systems for clinical governance.
• Acting as required, as an Associate Caldicott Guardian in UKHSA supporting the Caldicott Guardian. Particularly offering advice on complex queries, developing policy and procedures to develop the Caldicott Advisory Panel, and widening the research, information governance and ethical basis on which decisions are made.

Personal and Professional development

• The post-holder will undertake appropriate CPD activities in line with Faculty of Public Health
• Requirements and their Personal Development Plan and participate fully in Professional Revalidation as required by their professional body (GMC, UKPHR etc.).

The Consultant will be expected to

• Participate in the Organisations appraisal scheme including the professional appraisal scheme and ensure appraisal and development of any staff for which s/he is responsible.
• Contribute actively to the training Programme for Specialty Registrars in Public Health as appropriate, and to the training of practitioners and primary care professionals
• Pursue 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 another specialist register as appropriate

Other duties

• The above is only an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. You will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by your line manager. The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of UKHSA

Key working relationships

Internal

• CEO
• Chief Medical Advisor
• Director of Health Equity and Clinical Governance (line manager)
• Deputy Caldicott Guardian(s)
• Deputy Director, HR, People Directorate
• Deputy Director Professional Leadership for Nursing and Partnerships
• Occupational Health
• UKHSA Executive Management Committee
• UKHSA Local Negotiating Committee
• Professional and managerial staff at all levels of the organisation
• SIRO, Data Security, DPO and information governance colleagues in other directorates
• Other members of the CPH Senior Management Team
• UKHSA colleagues in other directorates,
• Corporate colleagues, including Finance, Communications, HR and Health and Safety

External

• Department of Health (Higher Level Responsible Officer)
• OHID and NHSE Responsible Officers/Medical Directors
• General Medical Council Employment Liaison Advisors
• United Kingdom Public Health Register
• General Medical Council
• General Dental Council
• NHS Resolution (Practitioner Performance Advice Service)
• Local Government Association
• British Medical Association
• Local Authorities
• National Quality Board, NHS England
• Association of Directors of Public Health
• Advisory Committee on Clinical Excellence (ACCEA)
• UK Council of Caldicott Guardians
• Department of Health and Social Care colleagues
• NHSE, MRHA and devolved administrations
• Peer networks of Responsible Officers and Caldicott Guardians

ExternalOpen to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants).

Stage 1: Application & Sift

This vacancy is using the Civil Service Competency Framework.

At sift stage you will be assessed against the essential criteria listed in the job description & person specification attached to this job advert.

You will be required to complete an:

Application form (Employer/ Activity history section on the application) up to 1000 word Statement of Suitability

The Application Form and Statement of Suitability will be scored together.

This should outline how your skills, experience, and knowledge, provide evidence of your suitability for the role.

You will receive a joint score for your application form and statement. (The application form is the kind of information you would put into your C.V please be advised you will not be able to upload your CV. Please complete the application form in as much detail as possible)

Your statement of suitability must be no more than 1000 words.

Please note feedback will not be provided at this stage.

Stage 2: Interview stage (competency based):

You will be invited to a virtual interview over Teams

This vacancy is being assessed using Civil Service Competency framework. During the interview we will assess against the below:

KnowledgeExperienceSkills and Abilities

You will be asked to prepare and present an 5minute presentation at the start of your interview. The subject of this will be sent to you prior to interview. Use of slides will be permitted.

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Location

This role is being offered as hybrid working based at any of our Core HQs. We offer great flexible working opportunities at UKHSA and operate using a hybrid working model where business needs allow. This provides us with greater flexibility about how and where we work, to get the best from our workforce. As a hybrid worker, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of your contractual working hours (approximately 3 days a week pro rata, (averaged over a month) working at one of UKHSA's core HQs (Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, London)

Our core HQ offices are modern and newly refurbished with excellent city centre transport link and benefit from benefit from co-location with other government departments such as the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC).

Security clearance level requirement Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check. Successful candidates must pass a Basic DBS

Successful candidates must also meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is Basic Personnel Security Standard (BPSS).

Qualifications

Essential

• Inclusion in the GMC Full and Specialist Register with a license to practice/GDC Specialist List or inclusion in the UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialists at the point of application.
• 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
• Any public health speciality registrar applicants who are currently on the UK public health training programme and not yet on either the GMC, GDC or UKPHR specialist register must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they are within 6 months of gaining entry to a register at the date of interview*
• 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, or equivalent

Personal Qualities

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

Experience

Essential

• Delivery of successful change management programmes across organizational 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

Knowledge

Essential

• In-depth understanding of health and care system and 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

Skills

Essential

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

Equality and Diversity

Essential

• An understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good workingrelationships, both in terms of day-to-day working practices, but also in relation to management system

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).