Job overview

With the launch of the Women’s Health Strategy in July 2022, Dept of Health (DH) tasked NHS England to deliver specific policy related commitments. This post is designed to provide clinical oversight and drive transformation of women’s health care supporting the NCD and Deputy Director.  The main but not sole focus will be on population and community aspects of Women’s Health and will involve working closely internally with other NHSE teams as well as external system partners at national, Regional and local levels. The NHS health and care system cares for all and 51% of the population face obstacles when it comes to access care. In 2014 the chief medical officers annual report – the health of 51% women, identified the widening disparities for girls and women  during their adolescent, reproductive and post reproductive years.  These issues remain relevant today.

Please note the attached Job Description is titled NSA – Sexual Health but applications are welcomed from specialists in any area of Women’s Health and community sexual and reproductive health to accommodate the various priorities emerging from Government.

Main duties of the job

• The National Speciality Advisor will engage with and provide leadership, specialist expertise, direction and general support to the Women’s Health Deputy Director and National Clinical Director as required.
• providing clinical oversight and work to support the delivery of the Women’s Health programme.
• The post is focused mainly on population health and community aspects of the end-to-end pathway for women but working closely with other teams and stakeholders leading on population, community and primary care.
• Provide clinical advice to support identification and delivery of our corporate clinical priorities, support commissioning, provide ad hoc advice and drive transformation of services.
• The post holders will support senior leaders with the provision of clinical advice and leadership through collaborative working with programme SROs, and other clinical leads across the organisation in their speciality area to ensure that all work programmes are aligned with national policy and strategy.
• Being a valuable source of knowledge on the latest scientific advances and provide clinical expertise on cross cutting themes including digital healthcare, innovation, ensuring that a health inequalities lens is applied to all areas of work.
• Support policy and strategy teams with horizon scanning and in the successful design and delivery of intervention and resources to support system, professional and care pathway changes at a national and local level.

Working for our organisation

The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:

• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money.

If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.

If you are successful at interview, we will run an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) in the Electronic Staff Record system (ESR). This transfer gathers valuable information from a previous or current NHS employer to support the onboarding process, including; statutory and mandatory competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement.  You will have the opportunity throughout the recruitment process to inform us if you do not consent.