Deputy Director – Health Equity and Inclusion Health
| Posting date: | 22 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £75,000.00 to £126,281.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £75000.00 - £126281.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, E14 4PU |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | K9919-24-0284 |
Summary
Identify research needs and work with research funders, academia and system partners to enable funding Work within UKHSA and the wider system, alongside UKHSAs policy team, to provide cross government leadership to ensure capability is built in all government departments to address wider determinants of health Support the development, application and quality assurance of tools to enable the systematic assessment of health equity e.g. Health Equity Assessment Tool, Health Impact Assessment/Equality Impact Assessment Work across the public health system to develop comprehensive engagement to magnify the community voice, groups and leadership in the work of health equity and inequalities, focusing on inclusion health groups, protected characteristics and vulnerable people. Work with NIHR Health Protection Research Units to ensure consideration of health equity in their aims and objectives, and to support UKHSA in developing further insight and evidence for the impact and management of infectious diseases and health hazards on specific inclusiongroups including those in particular high-risk settings eg Care Homes, the Prison estate etc. Work across UKHSA to provide a People and pathogen approach, integrating delivery of services such as TB, blood borne viruses and sexual health for inclusion health groups;for example, by understanding spatial differences including food purchasing and poverty and relationship to gastrointestinal infections, developing interventions to reduce transmission of respiratory infections in multi-generational households and communities etc Develop a community engagement and research strategic plan and develop a frameworkfor co-production of interventions for health protection including awareness, immunisations, testing and management of infections Develop business cases/proposals for research /evaluation of interventions targeted at inclusion health groups As a system leader foster appropriate relationships and collaborations at national, regional and global levels, including building on UKHSAs global work in health and justice to extend this to other areas of health equity and inclusion health. Ensure advice and support available to deliver effective publichealth interventions for vulnerable groups, both inUKHSAs day to day and response work. Lead and manage a division of approximately 30 40 people and its associated budget covering a range of public health disciplines Work closely with the Deputy Director Place & Health Equity Policy to ensure an effective Health Equity Programme and associated Board. Participate fully in the development of both the HECG Directorate and CPH Group, as a member of both SLTs Participate in emergency response as needed/ appropriate eg as Incident Director or Strategic Response Director. Represent the Director or on occasion the CMA, at system- facing and internal meetings as required. Applicants are strongly advised to use the criteria in the Person Specification of the Job Description as sub-headings in their application to make it clear how they meet each of the selection criteria. The successful candidate will be appointed to the point of the Consultant salary scale appropriate to their years of seniority or if from a background other than medicine to NHS Agenda for Change Band 9 or Civil Service SCS1. Inclusion in the GMC Full and Specialist Register with a license to practice (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/ in a specialty other than public health medicine, 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 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. External Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants).