Job summary
The role will include a mixed consultant portfolio to include strategic healthcare public health and support to specialised commissioning at regional and national level.
Within this role you will:
- oversee, coordinate, and deliver high quality professional PH support and advice to NHS England to drive improvements in health outcomes and reduce health inequalities across the population in a way that is cost effective and prioritises prevention.
- embed joined up public health approaches across clinical pathways by developing strong links with Integrated Care Systems (ICBs and ICPs), Local Authorities, Health and Wellbeing Boards, clinical senates and clinical networks, the Cancer Alliance and other agencies as appropriate.
- provide healthcare public health advice and support to both regional and national specialised commissioning activities and functions, including participation in the Individual Funding Request (IFR) process.
The post holder will be a senior member of the Directorate of Healthcare Public Health in NHSE Midlands and will have direct responsibility for providing public health advice/support to a range of healthcare functions and leading the development and delivery of public health programmes in the region.
Main duties of the job
In this role, you will be influencing systems and national commissioning to reduce inequalities and embed prevention in healthcare.
You will provide public health leadership, advice and support to internal and external stakeholders relevant to the Specialised Commissioning function.You will provide appropriate input to the annual commissioning cycle, with improvement in health status and reduction in health inequalities being a key outcome of the process.
You will ensure engagement across clinical pathways by developing strong links with Integrated Care Systems (ICBs and ICPs), Local Authorities, Health and Wellbeing Boards, clinical senates and clinical networks, the Cancer Alliance and other agencies as appropriate.
You will also provide public health (population healthcare) advice and support to the national commissioning activities and functions, including participation in the Individual Funding Requests (IFR) process.
For those with less experience of specialist commissioning, some training will be provided and your development into the role will be supported.
About us
NHS England employs consultants on NHS terms and conditions i.e. 2003 medical and dental consultant contract, or Agenda for Change 8D. Plus NHS pension.
About the Public Health Function
The Public Health function sits professionally within the Office of the Regional Director of Public Health (RDPH) which also spans the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID), DHSC. Within this role you will be part of the wider Public Health Midlands family, fostering collaborative working arrangements with local authority and regional OHID teams.
About the Team
We are a team who are passionate about improving health and reducing inequalities through access to effective, high-quality services.
Recognising that this is a specialist role, we are keen to hear from both newly qualified and experienced consultants in public health who are willing to develop into this role. For those with less experience of healthcare/specialised commissioning, support and training will be provided by our experienced and welcoming team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Consultant in HCPH will oversee, coordinate and deliver high quality professional PH input, support and advice to the NHS England at regional and system level to drive improvements in outcomes and reduction in health inequalities across the population in a way that is cost effective and prioritises prevention.
Alongside colleagues in the team, they will be responsible for professional advice on activity relating to healthcare public health, including:
- Overall strategy for improving population health at a regional level
- Direct commissioning responsibilities of NHS England and those delegated to ICBs
- Quality and efficiency of public health programmes including regional implementation of national workstreams across primary, secondary, and tertiary health services
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Consultant in HCPH will oversee, coordinate and deliver high quality professional PH input, support and advice to the NHS England at regional and system level to drive improvements in outcomes and reduction in health inequalities across the population in a way that is cost effective and prioritises prevention.
Alongside colleagues in the team, they will be responsible for professional advice on activity relating to healthcare public health, including:
- Overall strategy for improving population health at a regional level
- Direct commissioning responsibilities of NHS England and those delegated to ICBs
- Quality and efficiency of public health programmes including regional implementation of national workstreams across primary, secondary, and tertiary health services
Person Specification
Values and behaviours
Essential
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do.
- Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public.
- Ability to operate in a value-driven style consistent with the values of the public services and specifically with the new organisational values
- Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects, and learns from the contribution of others
- Values diversity and difference; operates with integrity and openness
- Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects, and learns from the contribution of others
- Consistently looks to improve what they do, look for successful tried and tested ways of working, and seeks out innovation
- Actively develops themselves and supports others to do the same.
- Needs to have a thorough understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships both in terms of day-to-day working practices, but also in relation to management systems.
- Self-awareness in teams of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness
- Values diversity and difference operates with integrity and openness
- Embrace change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop.
- Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values.
Skills Capabilities & Attributes
Essential
- Highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate on highly complex matters and difficult situations
- Ability to provide and receive, convey, and present highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information to large groups, responding openly to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement
- Ability to communicate effectively with clinical, academic and all levels of staff
- High level analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear concise manner
- Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess verbal, written, numerical and draw appropriate conclusions
- Demonstrates sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management when appropriate
- Leadership, vision, strategic thinking, and planning with highly developed political skills
- Ability to demonstrate a high level of expertise in providing senior leadership
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary, working to tight and often changing deadlines.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues.
- Autonomy to undertake actions as a result of own interpretation of policy and guidance providing a source of expert advice to the organisation
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- Proven and significant leadership experience and/or formal management qualification
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, the NHS England/ NHS Improvement and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
- Demonstrable experience of managing and prioritising a large budget with solid working knowledge of financial process requirements.
- Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
- Member of relevant professional body
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Inclusion in the GMC Full and Specialist Register with a license to practice/GDC Specialist List (or be eligible for registration within six months of interview) Or Inclusion in the UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialists (or be eligible for registration within six months of interview)
- 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
- 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 [see shortlisting notes below for additional guidance]
- 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 [see shortlisting notes below for additional guidance]
- 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
Other
Essential
- Ability to travel across multiple sites where required
Person Specification
Values and behaviours
Essential
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do.
- Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public.
- Ability to operate in a value-driven style consistent with the values of the public services and specifically with the new organisational values
- Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects, and learns from the contribution of others
- Values diversity and difference; operates with integrity and openness
- Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects, and learns from the contribution of others
- Consistently looks to improve what they do, look for successful tried and tested ways of working, and seeks out innovation
- Actively develops themselves and supports others to do the same.
- Needs to have a thorough understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships both in terms of day-to-day working practices, but also in relation to management systems.
- Self-awareness in teams of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness
- Values diversity and difference operates with integrity and openness
- Embrace change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop.
- Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values.
Skills Capabilities & Attributes
Essential
- Highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate on highly complex matters and difficult situations
- Ability to provide and receive, convey, and present highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information to large groups, responding openly to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement
- Ability to communicate effectively with clinical, academic and all levels of staff
- High level analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear concise manner
- Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess verbal, written, numerical and draw appropriate conclusions
- Demonstrates sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management when appropriate
- Leadership, vision, strategic thinking, and planning with highly developed political skills
- Ability to demonstrate a high level of expertise in providing senior leadership
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary, working to tight and often changing deadlines.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues.
- Autonomy to undertake actions as a result of own interpretation of policy and guidance providing a source of expert advice to the organisation
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- Proven and significant leadership experience and/or formal management qualification
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, the NHS England/ NHS Improvement and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
- Demonstrable experience of managing and prioritising a large budget with solid working knowledge of financial process requirements.
- Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
- Member of relevant professional body
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Inclusion in the GMC Full and Specialist Register with a license to practice/GDC Specialist List (or be eligible for registration within six months of interview) Or Inclusion in the UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialists (or be eligible for registration within six months of interview)
- 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
- 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 [see shortlisting notes below for additional guidance]
- 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 [see shortlisting notes below for additional guidance]
- 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
Other
Essential
- Ability to travel across multiple sites where required
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
