Consultant in Public Health

Wrightington Wigan & Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Your role: In this exciting new joint role you will provide public health leadership for improving health outcomes and reducing health inequalities through delivery of action, influence and advice to WWL, the Council, NHS Greater Manchester Wigan Locality and the wider Healthier Wigan Partnership.

About you: You must be registered on the Specialist Register of the General Medical/Dental Council in Public Health, or on the UK Public Health (Specialist) Register and will be expected to demonstrate expertise in the full range of relevant competencies as set out by the Faculty of Public Health.

You should be able to demonstrate public health expertise across all domains of public health and the ability to take on a defined portfolio for healthcare public health and health protection.

Main duties of the job

You will provide public health leadership for improving health outcomes and reducing health inequalities through delivery of action, influence and advice to WWL, the Council, NHS Greater Manchester Wigan Locality and the wider Healthier Wigan Partnership.

Professionally accountable to the Director of Public health you will provide expert public health advice to WWL and other key partners, reporting to the Director of Strategy and Transformation, taking a lead on the boroughwide approach to health protection and healthcare public health.

In this role your leadership will inspire development of progressive system wide solutions and influence action that supports continuous improvement in health and wellbeing across the population, challenging existing practice and improving quality, providing WWL, the Council and NHS partners with specialist public health advice.

In delivering the key responsibilities described below you must be registered on the Specialist Register of the General Medical/Dental Council in Public Health, or on the UK Public Health (Specialist) Register and will be expected to demonstrate expertise in the full range of relevant competencies as set out by the Faculty of Public Health attached) and the person specifications (attached).

About us

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that 'happy staff, makes for happy patients'. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement, and living our values 'the WWL Way'.

WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.

At WWL we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.

Job responsibilities

1. Provide public health expertise across all domains of public health taking on a defined leadership portfolio for healthcare public health and health protection; including the management and resource responsibilities aligned to your lead area.
2. Connect with a wide range of stakeholders, through mature and strong relationships, to fully exploit all opportunities for improving public health outcomes.
3. Use data, insight, and evidence in the development and implementation of robust strategies for improving health and wellbeing ensuring qualitative and/or quantitative measurements are in place to demonstrate improvements.
4. Develop and use information and intelligence systems to underpin public health action across disciplines and organisations, including input to the production of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA), surveillance, monitoring and evaluation of health and wellbeing in Wigan.
5. Effectively communicate complex concepts and data and their implications for local communities, to a range of stakeholders with very different backgrounds, providing written and verbal briefings, reports and presentations when required.
6. Contribute to public health research, and/or commission research audits/projects, and/or undertake research or audit and participate in and influence relevant research networks so that the research needs of Wigan are considered.
7. Work with UKHSA and other partners to ensure local communities are protected from infectious disease threats (including food and water borne disease, pandemics, etc) and environmental hazards and that health protecting activity (immunisation and screening, sexual health) is effective.
8. Support the Councils statutory duties and response to external health threats and the Emergency Response Plan under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and the Social Care Act 2012, and any amendments.
9. Provide strategic support to the Director of Public Health and Assistant Director of Public Health, to discharge the Councils statutory public health responsibilities, and deputise when required.
10. Any other responsibilities and requirements that may arise according to the business requirements of WWL and the Council, as determined by the DPH and Medical Director through an agreed work plan.
11. Be an effective, courageous, and responsible advocate for improving health and advise Wigan on its statutory public health obligations providing clear and evidence-based recommendations and advice.
12. Work across the Council and WWL, and with a wide range of partners agencies and voluntary organisations, taking a lead role for strategic public health input into the development, implementation, and delivery of local strategies, developing inter-agency and interdisciplinary strategic plans and programmes as well as influencing partnership boards to deliver key outcomes for Wigan.
13. Support the Health and Wellbeing Board, and associated fora, to drive action and effectively engage partners, to achieve greatest population impact whilst delivering its statutory duty to promote integration for the benefit of local communities.
14. Be responsible for change and improvement, including the resolution of relevant operational issues, ensuring that quality improvement (and clinical governance) programmes are an integral component of the public health approach in Wigan.
15. Develop strong relationships with a wide range of partners to influence policy and service delivery that has greatest impact on population health.
16. Operate within a framework of partnerships, including Cabinet/Portfolio holders, Senior Management Team, Local NHS bodies, the VCFSE, UKHSA, OHID, Health and Wellbeing Board, Local Resilience Forum, NHS England, the public and the media, providing specialist public health expertise and supporting strategy delivery.
17. Provide public health advice to relevant boards and committees including the Healthier Wigan Partnership and associated forums, influencing the development and delivery of equitable, citizen focussed and effective health and care services.

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

• In line with legislation, inclusion in the GMC Full and Specialist Register with a license to practice/GD( 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/Goe 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 in teams led by junior colleagues
• Commitment to work within a political system irrespective of personal political affiliations

Experience

• Delivery of successful change management programmes across organizational boundaries
• Experience of using complex information to explain public health issues to a range of audiences
• Media experience demonstrating delivery of effective health behaviour or health promotion messages

Skills

• 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

Knowledge

• 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

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.