Detailed job description and main responsibilities

 Clinical and Team Leadership:

·    Provide clinical and public heath knowledge and skills on behalf the PH Hub, supported by the Head of the Population Health Hub (Consultant in Public Health), contributing to the Hub delivering its strategic aims towards improving health and reducing inequalities for our patients and populations, in line with the Trust’s overall vision for Population Health and Health Equity.

·   Supporting Clinical Groups and other key programmes, helping them to adopt a population health management approach to designing and delivering services, providing clinical leadership and public health expertise to enable this.

·   Working closely with the Population Health Management Hub leadership team to secure and integrate multiple data sources to develop a robust population health analysis platform, and utilise insights to inform provision of clinical services and clinical practice.

·    Line management of any Clinical Fellows or Fast Stream placements and, if already an Educational Supervisor (ES), public health trainees (whereby, this would involve specific responsibilities for: Setting and monitoring learning objectives and a learning plan, leave and cover arrangements; Ensuring junior doctors’ hours are compliant in line with EWTD and New Deal;  Conduct annual appraisals, and performance management,  in line with Trust policies and procedures).  

Service Improvement and Transformation:

·       To ensure the use of the best available evidence base to support the assessment of local health needs, health inequalities, and health impact assessment, in order to inform the development of evidence-based clinical service models or interventions.

• Identify and prioritise areas for service redesign based on data-driven insights to address unmet needs and reduce health inequities.
• Apply an evidence based improvement approach to testing new ideas
• Support the implementation of innovative care models and preventive interventions across clinical services.
• Engage and collaborate with clinical teams to facilitate the adoption of new practices and ensure effective service delivery.

 Data Integration and Analysis:

·      Use relevant clinical data to inform a comprehensive population-based picture of clinical need and inequity for Clinical Groups and key programmes.

·    Utilise data to cohort patients, predict health risks, and identify opportunities for earlier intervention and prevention.

·      Advise and inform analyses and evidence reviews for intervention design and impact evaluation e.g. health improvement and health inequalities reductions.

·     Help the Hub realise the opportunities from Epic to improve the delivery of population health-based care across the Trust.

Research, Evaluation & Education, Training & Development:

·       Contribute to rigorous evaluation of health services interventions supported by the Hub, where appropriate in collaboration with researchers,  to demonstrate impact and inform future development and practices.

·  Collaborate with research initiatives relating to the Hub, and support the delivery of population health research within the Trust, ensuring that clinical-academic colleagues are delivering research outputs, resultant from the work of the programme.

·   Facilitate collaboration with academic partners to enhance the Trust's role in population health research and innovation.

• To monitor relevant outcome measures for the programme, which can evidence the future case for funding.
• To support the development of public health capacity through contributing to education, training and development of the PH Hub Team, Trust and KHP.

Strategy and Sustainability:

• Support the Head of the Population Health Hub (Consultant in Public Health), to develop the Trust’s long-term vision for population health and health equity, and deliver strategically aligned work, across the Trust to deliver towards these ambitions.
• Advocate for population health management as a core component of the Trust’s strategic framework, to enable the delivery of the Trust’s commitments.
• Represent the programme/hub, both internally and externally, and develop relationships and collaborations with relevant local and national bodies, including other agencies and voluntary organisations.

· Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, including Integrated Care Systems, King’s Health Partners, Local Care Partnerships and Local Authorities.

Advocacy and Engagement:

·         Serve as a visible and persuasive advocate for population health and health equity within the Trust and the wider healthcare community.

• Support the Head of the Population Health Hub (Consultant in Public Health), to ensure delivery of statutory requirements and action that the Trust must take on health inequalities.

·  Communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders, including clinical teams, patients, and external partners.

·     Ensure the PH Hub’s activities align with the Trust’s values and strategic priorities.

·         Create strong links with primary care / place-based data leads, and other relevant partnerships and programmes both for integrated data and analyses to understand health needs and inequalities, and for determining impact of interventions.

Personal Development

·    Maintain an in-depth understanding of local and national public health, population health and health inequalities policy, strategy and healthcare delivery models.

·    Regular horizon scanning and review of the evidence base around best practices and ways of working, within and beyond the health and care sector.

·     Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of a range of skills and insights, including change management, service improvement techniques, patient and public involvement, the latest approaches to population health management and improvement