Job summary
- Main area
- HCPH
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-S3-MID2127-A
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Stephenson Street (Midlands Flexible across the Region)
- Town
- Birmingham/Midlands
- Salary
- per annum
- Closing
- 28/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant in Public Health - Healthcare PH
NHS Medical & Dental
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Consultant in Healthcare Public Health to work within the Public Health Directorate at NHS Midlands. The role will include a mixed consultant portfolio to include strategic healthcare public health and support to specialised commissioning at regional and national level.
Main duties of the job
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.
Working for our organisation
In April 2023, NHS England, NHS Digital, and Health Education England merged to create a new, single organisation to lead the NHS in England. This new NHS England is designed to create a simpler, smaller, high performing, organisation that leads the NHS more effectively and is a better place to work. Speaking with one voice to the service.
The new 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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.
About us
We are a team who are passionate about improving health and reducing inequalities through access to effective, high-quality services.
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.
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.
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.
You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- 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
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- 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 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
Skills Capabilities & Attributes
Essential criteria
- 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
Values and behaviours
Essential criteria
- 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
- Ability to travel across multiple sites where required
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Woodhurst
- Job title
- Business Manager – Healthcare Public Health
- Email address
- [email protected]
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