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Consultant in Public Health
| Posting date: | 22 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £93,666.00 to £126,281.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £93666.00 - £126281.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 May 2024 |
| Location: | Wimbledon, London, SW19 1RH |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | D9491-491-SWLHI21 |
Summary
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.