Job summary
- Main area
- Public Health
- Grade
- Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 491-SWLHI21
- Employer
- NHS South West London Integrated Care Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 120 The Broadway
- Town
- Wimbledon, London
- Salary
- £93,666 - £126,281 N/A
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant in Public Health
Consultant
Job overview
The postholder will be part of the medical directorate’s wider senior leadership team, aligning public health system priorities. They will be responsible for providing the public health leadership to the evidence-based interventions (EBI) team and chairing the Integrated Medicines Optimisation Committee (IMOC). A key responsibility is the provision of public health expertise and support to Individual Funding Requests (IFR). This will involve input into the IFR panel, review of policy, processes and evidence and triage of IFR applications.
Main duties of the job
For a full list of duties held by this post, please refer to the job description:
The postholder will also be expected to provide public health leadership to the SWL ICB on their role in improving uptake and coverage of screening and immunisations and will work with the Director of Health Improvement on their wider portfolio of population health improvement for southwest London.
As a GMC registered consultant in public health medicine, the postholder will be expected to deputise for the Executive Medical Director on medical and clinical issues when the medical director is unavailable.
Working for our organisation
NHS South West London Integrated Care Board (ICB), as part of South West London Integrated Care System (ICS), is a partnership of organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined up health and care services to improve the lives of people in our six boroughs: Croydon, Merton, Kingston, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth.
Each ICS consists of two statutory elements:
- an Integrated Care Board, bringing the NHS together with its partners locally to improve health and care services
- an Integrated Care Partnership (ICP): the broad alliance of organisations and representatives concerned with improving the care, health and wellbeing of the population, jointly convened by the ICB and local authorities in the area.
ICBs are statutory NHS bodies responsible for planning and allocating resources to meet the four core purposes of integrated care systems (ICSs):
- to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare;
- tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access;
- enhance productivity and value for money and;
- help the NHS support broader social and economic development.
NHS South West London Integrated Care Board decides how the South West London NHS budget is spent and develops plans to improve people's health, deliver higher quality care, and better value for money.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a full list of duties held by this post, please refer to the job description:
Duties and Responsibilities
The strategic responsibility of the post-holder is to provide public health and clinical leadership to Integrated Medicines Optimisation Committee (IMOC) and evidence-based interventions (EBI), including Individual Funding Requests (IFR). In delivering that responsibility the post-holder is expected to demonstrate expertise across the full range of relevant competencies as set out by the Faculty of Public Health (Appendix 1) and where required, take responsibility for resolving operational issues. In negotiation with the Director of Health Improvement, the post-holder may be asked to take on responsibilities that are underpinned by any of the FPH competencies.
- The post holder will be expected to maintain both the general expertise as well as develop topic-based expertise as required and will be expected to deputise for the Director of Health Improvement as and when required. The post holder is also expected to deputise for the Executive Medical Director on medical and clinical issues.
- The range of duties expected of the post-holder include:
- Taking responsibility for a range of public health issues and work across organisational and professional boundaries acting as a change agent managing complexity to deliver improvements in health and wellbeing.
- Taking responsibility for development, implementation and delivery of policies. This may include taking the lead in developing detailed inter-agency and interdisciplinary strategic plans and programmes based on needs assessments which may lead to service specifications. The post-holder will be expected to contribute appropriately to the procurement process.
- Providing expert public health support and whole system leadership to ensure an evidence-based approach for commissioning and developing high quality equitable services, within and across a range of organizations including voluntary, public and private sector. This includes the health service component of the mandated core service. This will include expertise in evaluation and development of appropriate KPIs.
- Utilising and developing information and intelligence systems to underpin public health action across disciplines and organisations.
- Underpinning much of these duties are public health tasks such as:
- Undertaking health needs assessments as required to enable actions to be taken to improve the health of the local population.
- Developing prioritisation techniques and managing their application to policies, services and to help resolve issues such as the investment-disinvestment debate
- Effective communication of complex concepts, science and data and their implications for local communities, to a range of stakeholders with very different backgrounds.
- Understanding of evaluation frameworks and applying those frameworks to the benefit of local communities.
- A capacity to apply the scientific body of knowledge on public health to the polices and services necessary to improve health, both currently and for future generations, and to formulate clear practical evidence-based recommendations
- The understanding of human and organisational behaviour and the application of this knowledge to the achievement of change.
- Inspire commitment to public health outcomes and to prevention as a core feature of public sector reform.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GMC Full and Specialist Register with a license to practice at the point of application
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in Public Health.
- 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.
- Member of relevant professional body - FPH, RCP etc
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- In depth understanding of the health and care system and the relationships with both local and 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.
- Experience of using complex information to explain public health issues to a range of audiences.
- Proven and significant leadership experience.
- Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment.
- Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry.
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate and present on highly complex, sensitive and/or contentions matters and difficult situations.
- Able to influence senior members including directors and CEOs.
- 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.
- Ability to negotiate on difficult and highly complex and detailed issues.
- Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills.
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to work as part of a team and work flexibly to provide support to other departments and teams as and when necessary.
- Demonstrates commitment to NHS and organisational values and behaviours.
- Demonstrate commitment and role model behaviours and actions that support equality, diversity, belonging and inclusion.
- Strong compassionate and inclusive leadership.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Catherine Heffernan
- Job title
- Director of Health Improvement
- Email address
- [email protected]
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