Consultant of Public Health
| Posting date: | 21 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £91,073.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £91073.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 September 2025 |
| Location: | Swindon, SN1 2JG |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | F0065-RNR002840-2 |
Summary
In delivering these responsibilities the postholder 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 Public Health, the postholder may be asked to take on responsibilities that are underpinned by any of the FPH competencies. The postholder will be expected to maintain general expertise as well as develop topic-based expertise as required by the DPH and will be expected to deputise for the DPH when required. The range of duties expected of the postholder include: a. Taking responsibility for a range of public health issues and working across organisational and professional boundaries, acting as a change agent, managing complexity to deliver improvements in health and wellbeing. b. Providing briefings on the health and wellbeing needs of local communities to Councillors, Council Officers, NHS Commissioners, the 3rd sector, the public and partners. Where required to do so, the postholder will provide verbal briefing to Councillors, other colleagues and stakeholders in person which may be at short notice. c. 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 postholder will be expected to contribute appropriately to the procurement process. d. 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 key performance indicators. e. Utilising (and if appropriate developing) information and intelligence systems to underpin public health action across disciplines and organisations. This may include providing leadership for collation and interpretation of relevant data including production of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment. Working with the DPH, this will include the integration of the appropriate elements of the public health, NHS and social care outcomes frameworks within the systems developed by the local authority as well as with relevant partner organisations. f. Supporting the DPH in the development and implementation of robust strategies for improving the health and wellbeing of local communities including ensuring qualitative and/or quantitative measurements are in place to demonstrate improvements. This may include taking responsibility for the judicious use of the ring-fenced public health grant and/or working with NHS Commissioners, Trusts, the contractor professions and UKHSA/DHSC. g. Providing the key local authority link to the research community, providing advice/support to colleagues and co-ordinating appropriate access to scientific information. The postholder will be expected to take part in relevant research networks and to influence research programmes of such networks so that the research needs of the local authority are taken into account. h. Taking responsibility for the training obligations of the directorate, including becoming an Educational Supervisor. These duties will be agreed jointly with the Head of the School of Public Health.