Deputy Director of Public Health / Consultant in Public Health

An exciting leadership opportunity has arisen for an inspirational Consultant in Public Health / Deputy Director of Public Health to join the team within the Public Health Directorate, to provide expert leadership for population health and wellbeing in Mid and West Wales. 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. As part of the senior leadership within the Local Health Board this post will work closely with our local and national partners including Public Health Wales and the CMOs office. This is a development opportunity for Consultants who aspire to become Directors of Public Health or those who wish to gain senior leadership experience of an integrated Health Board working, in preparation for other executive roles.

1. Provide public health leadership at the highest level including information, advice and support for population health.
2. Be responsible for ensuring public health leadership and delivery in outcomes-based planning and commissioning within the UHB. They will work closely with other deputy directors and assistant directors across the organisation.
3. On behalf of the Executive Director of Public Health take an active role in strengthening the integrated partnership strategies, working closely with local authority partners, Public Services Boards, the Regional Partnership Board and other partners in progressing outcomes-based approaches.
4. Be responsible for ensuring public health drive, influence, and input to our partnership arenas to enable health improvement.
5. Demonstrate systems leadership for tackling inequalities in health in our local population.
6. Provide leadership to actively support the delivery of the Health Board's corporate strategies, ensuring a strong population focus, working closely with the directorate business management team.
7. Lead for needs-based clinical pathways, with a focus on early and targeted interventions and shifting services upstream.
8. Promote and drive whole systems approaches for population benefit.
9. Develop partnerships and influence to enable wide participation in improving health of the local population.
10. Work closely with the information function within the organisation in strengthening the public health intelligence capacity and capability.

Hywel Dda University Health Board is the planner and provider of NHS healthcare services for people in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and its bordering counties. Our 12,000 members of staff provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services for around 384,000 people across a quarter of the landmass of Wales. We do this in partnership with our three local authorities and public, private and third sector colleagues, including our volunteers.

You 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.
• 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.

• Masters in Public Health or equivalent.

• In depth understanding of the 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.
• 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.

• 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 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.
• 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.

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

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

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

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

• 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.

• 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.