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Job summary

Main area
Public Health
Grade
Consultant
Contract
Permanent: 5 PAs
Hours
Part time - 5 sessions per week
Job ref
290-CONCP104
Employer
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Trust Wide
Town
London
Salary
£99,532 to £131,964 per annum WTE
Closing
17/07/2024 23:59

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Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust logo

Consultant in Public Health

Consultant

Job overview

Reporting to the Director of Population Health for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, this part-time position will play a pivotal role in advancing health equity and improving overall population health and wellbeing of our patients and communities. The successful candidate will bring a deep understanding of public health, population health, healthcare, and heath equity combined with exceptional skills in collaboration, teamwork, partnership working and system leadership as well as an interest in building capability and developing staff.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will, with colleagues, lead on areas to improve population health and equity. Key responsibilities include the following: 

    Provide senior, strategic leadership and input to the Trust’s Population Health Improvement and Health Equity functions, including guiding planning, prioritisation, delivery and evaluation of initiatives.

    Lead key work areas aligned with the Trust's Health and Equity Framework, ensuring all efforts are designed and delivered with our communities.

    Develop and maintain strong relationships with collaborators and partners, and where relevant be a member of partnership groups, working with local authority, and local, regional, and national NHS organisations and academic partners to improve health outcomes and enhance health equity.

    Offer expert advice and leadership on public health matters to other directorates within the Trust and to external partners and support capability building in these areas

    Collaborate with Paddington Life Sciences Partners to drive health innovation and reduce inequalities, bringing health, economic, and social value to the community

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.  Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.  

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share.

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view attached.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • In line with legislation, inclusion in the GMC Full and Specialist Register with a license to practice/GDC Specialist List or inclusion in the UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialists at the point of application
  • 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, UKPHR register or GDC Specialist List in dental public health must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they are within 6 months of gaining entry to a register at the date of interview
  • 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
  • MFPH by examination, by exemption or by assessment, or equivalent

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Delivery of successful change management programmes across organizational boundaries
  • Experience of using complex information to explain public health issues to a range of audiences

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Strategic thinker with proven leadership skills and operational nous
  • 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
  • Analytical skills able to utilize both qualitative (including health economics) and quantitative information
  • Ability to design, develop, interpret and implement strategies and policies

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • In depth understanding of the health and care system and the relationships with both local 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

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr Dominique Allwood
Job title
Director of Population Health
Email address
[email protected]

If you have problems applying, contact

Address
1st Floor Education Centre
Charing Cross Hospital
W6 8RF
Telephone
07789 171 622
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