Consultant in Population Health

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

CQC: Requires improvement

London

Salary

£103,102 – £150,569

Posted

Yesterday

About the role

This role requires an enthusiastic, population health professional who is passionate about embedding prevention in an acute trust through strategic working, training & education of healthcare staff, & system change. The postholder will be a qualified Public Health Consultant who is expected to lead the development & implementation of the innovative Faculty of Population Health. The Faculty is a strategic & educational programme that aims to empower staff & patients to have conversations to improve their health. Based on the evidence-based principles of Making Every Contact Count (MECC) the Faculty embeds prevention within clinical services to support culture change amongst all patient-facing staff. The postholder will support the Trust to develop this cultural change programme & embed a preventative approach by co-developing the Faculty with staff groups across all health units, overseeing bespoke training delivered by an external training provider, establishing a sustainable group-wide training the trainer programme, co-developing a tiered training programme & overseeing both internal & external evaluation of the programme. The postholder will be responsible for chairing a Data Working Group that supports the roll-out of data & digital intelligence to inform pathway redesign, service planning & workforce optimisation. They will also be expected to contribute to other population health priorities - smoking cessation programmes, digital & data projects, & research.

Person specification

Essential

The National Health Service (Appointment of Consultants) Regulations 1996 (legislation.gov.uk) 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
Any public health speciality registrar applicants who are currently on the UK public health training programme and not yet on either the GMC, GDC or UKPHR specialist register must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they are within 6 months of gaining entry to a register at the date of interview Applicants going through the portfolio registration routes (GMC or UKPHR) are not eligible to be shortlisted for interview until they are included on the register. The six-month rule does not apply to these portfolio route applicants. - 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 [see shortlisting notes below)
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 - Masters in Public Health or equivalent
Able to influence senior members including directors and CEOs
Able to both lead teams and to able to contribute effectively to teams led by junior colleagues
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 health and care system and 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

Commitment to work within a political system irrespective of personal political affiliations
Media experience demonstrating delivery of effective health behaviour or health promotion messages