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About the role

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of truly integrated public health by joining the Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Consultant in Public Health Alliance. If you are looking for a challenge in a system that has bold ambitions and a vision for the people we serve to prosper, be healthy and happy this could be the role for you. In the context of emerging integrated care systems, this is a unique opportunity to shape a new approach, with public health at the forefront of system leadership. Along with your fellow Consultants in Public Health, you will build a collaborative approach, maximising public health capacity and expertise across the Integrated Care System (ICS) footprint. The Alliance is an integrated team of Consultants in Public Health, providing public health capacity and expertise across the ICS. The Alliance will be guided by a steering group made up of the following: Chief Medical Officer: Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board (ICB) Director of Public Health: Staffordshire County Council Deputy Director Strategy & Transformation: University Hospital North Midlands Salary for the post(s): NHS Medical Consultant (dependent on experience and qualifications) or NHS Agenda for Change Scale 8d/9 (dependent on experience).

You will play a key role providing strategic leadership across organisational boundaries, working with partners and communities to improve public health outcomes. The Alliance will be underpinned by a formal accountability structure, governed through a workforce sharing agreement between partners (available ahead of interview upon request). These two posts will be employed by Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB and hosted by Staffordshire County Council. See attached Service Agreement for further detail. One post will have a portfolio which includes children and young people's public health, and the other post will have a portfolio which includes health protection and the wider determinants of health, as well as other responsibilities, to be determined following successful appointment.

Person specification

Essential

In line with legislation, 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 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, GDC Specialist List in dental public health or UKPHR must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they are within 6 months of gaining entry to a register at the date of interview
Applicants must meet minimum CPD requirements (i.e. be up to date) in accordance with Faculty of Public Health requirements or other recognised body
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
MFPH by examination, by exemption or by assessment
Delivery of successful change management programmes across organizational boundaries
Experience of using complex information to explain public health issues to a range of audiences
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.
In depth understanding of the English 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.

Desirable

Masters in Public Health or equivalent
Media experience demonstrating delivery of effective health behaviour messages and working with the media/press