Consultant in Public Health Medicine / Consultant in Public Health

An exciting leadership opportunity has arisen for an inspirational Consultant in Public Health Medicine/Consultant in Public Health to join the team within the Public Health Directorate. The post holder will have a key leadership role in strategic planning & implementation and performance aligned to population health across Hywel Dda. They will work closely with the Senior Leadership team within the Health Board and with the Executive team on behalf of the Executive Director of Public Health (DPH) to ensure public health approaches are embedded into all relevant workstreams. They will provide Consultant level leadership across the Directorate for the Hywel Dda area. In addition will be managerially responsible for any staff who may be appointed to deliver public health work within the remit of this post.

Provide public health leadership at the highest-level including information, advice and support for population health. Contribute to the development of integrated partnership strategies (including leading the needs assessment component), working closely with local authorities. Take responsibility for developing local policies, interagency and interdisciplinary plans and programmes to deliver key public health targets. Provide expert public health advice and leadership to support and inform an evidence-based approach within ethical frameworks for planning and developing high quality equitable services, across primary, secondary and social care, and across sectors including local authorities, voluntary organisations.

The postholder will be expected to ensure public health influences the programmes of our strategic partners at a local level, to maximise opportunities for prevention, earlier intervention and improvement of health and wellbeing across our population. Additionally, they will be expected to lead on work streams at a national level to support population health improvement across the whole system. A high level of intellectual rigour, negotiation and motivation skills and flexibility is required to deal with complex public health issues, to advise and make recommendations regarding services and interventions. A high level of tact and diplomacy is required and an ability to understand other cultures to enable effective working across organisational boundaries and influencing without authority.

• 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 (or be eligible for registration within six months of interview).
• Public health specialty registrar applicants who are not yet on the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List in dental public health/UKPHR must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they are within 6 months of gaining entry at the date of interview all other applicants must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they have applied for inclusion in the GMC/GDC/UKPHR specialist registers.
• 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.

Desirable

• Masters in Public Health or equivalent.

Knowledge
Essential

• In depth understanding of the health and care system and the relationships with both local national government.
• 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.
• High level of understanding of epidemiology and statistics, public health practice, health promotion, health economics and health care evaluation.
• Understanding of social and political environment.

Skills
Essential

• 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.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines with competing demands and consistently deliver on time.
• Ability to formulate long-term strategic plans, involving uncertainty, may impact across whole organisation.
• Analytical skills able to utilize both qualitative (including health economics) and quantitative information.
• Ability to design, develop, interpret and implement strategies and policies.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills (including dealing with the media).
• Effective interpersonal, motivational and influencing skills. Good presentational skills (oral and written).
• Sensible negotiator with practical expectation of what can be achieved.
• Substantially numerate, with highly developed analytical skills using qualitative and quantitative data.
• Computer literate with well developed skills in Microsoft Office suite, use of MS Teams etc.
• Ability to design, develop, interpret and implement policies.
• Ability to concentrate for long periods (e.g. analyses, media presentations).
• Resource management skills.

Research
Essential

• Experience and knowledge of critical appraisal of evidence so as to improve clinical outcomes.

Desirable

• Evidence of initiating, progressing and concluding research projects with publication.
• Research degree.

Teaching
Essential

• Evidence of organising programmes and teaching medical students and junior doctors.
• Willingness to teach all grades of professional multidisciplinary staff.

Desirable

• Organisation of further teaching programmes in medical education.
• Training and mentoring skills.

Experience
Essential

• Delivery of successful change and project management programmes across organizational boundaries.
• Experience of using complex information to explain public health issues to a range of audiences.
• Significant experience of working at senior level in a large complex organisation.
• Excellent staff and corporate management and development skill.
• Experience of working in complex political and social environments.
• Experience of delivering across organisational boundaries.
• Demonstrable proof of success in a similar role.
• Demonstration of transforming services or significant service re-design and change.

Desirable

• Media experience demonstrating delivery of effective health behaviour or health promotion messages.
• Scientific publications, presentation of papers at forums such as conferences, seminars.
• Budget management skills.

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