Consultant in Public Health

The post holder will contribute to achieving the priorities of Sefton Council and the vision for 2030, building on the wider vision for system change. Imagine Sefton 2030 will engage the public, local businesses and potential investors in creating a vision that will collectively promote shared prosperity, coordinated public investment, and a healthy environment and population. As a senior leader in the public health team and across the council the post holder will help make the vision a reality, adding value and strengthening the health and wellbeing outcomes. The post holder will support the local authority to take all steps necessary to improve and protect the health of its population.
This includes supporting action to protect residents of Sefton from immediate and future threats to their health, and seeking assurances that all relevant organisations in the area have appropriate plans in place to protect the health of the population and that all necessary action is being taken. Key portfolio areas will include health protection, screening and immunisations, and infection prevention and control. The postholder will give advice to a range of settings, planning surveillance, and response to incidents and outbreaks. The post holder will also lead programmes of health care public health, health improvement and prevention interventions, including tobacco control, NHS Health Checks, oral health and childrens health and wellbeing.
Strategic Duties and Responsibilities Support the Director of Public Health (DPH) in their role reporting to and supporting the work of relevant Council committees and governance bodies, including Health & Wellbeing Board,, Health Protection Forum and Place and Partnership Committees within the Integrated Care System. Ensure development and maintenance of systems and processes to enable the local authority to work with partners to respond to major incidents including health protection threats. On behalf of the DPH, to lead on those aspects that the Secretary of State delegates to the authority. Ensure that partner organisations (UKHSA, ICB and NHS) have appropriate mechanisms, to enable surge capacity to be delivered as and when required On behalf of the authority to take responsibility for ensuring delivery of the public health mandated services such that the full range of benefits are delivered to residents of the local authority.
This will include taking responsibility for the relevant outcome indicators within the Public Health, NHS, and Social Care Outcome frameworks and working across organisational boundaries. To lead health protection work across all Council directorates as well as influencing partnership boards dealing with environmental hazards, and climate change, to maximise health improvement opportunities and the reduction of inequalities in health outcomes amongst residents. Lead the delivery of the health protection programmes, including for example, responsibilities relating to acute respiratory infections, Tuberculosis, blood borne viruses, extreme weather planning and pandemic disease planning, and maintaining oversight of nationally commissioned health protection programmes, including childhood and adult immunisation programmes, cancer and non-cancer screening programmes Provide strategic leadership around health protection and community infection prevention and control. Provide strategic leadership around health care public health and health improvement (including NHS Health Checks, oral health and tobacco control).
Strategic objectives To support the Councils Senior Management and to assist the Chief Executive working with Elected Members and senior officers to realise the Councils objectives, priorities and values. To deputise for the Director of Public Health and represent the Council ensuring that the reputation of the Council is effectively managed. To support change management and promote clear, effective and transparent communication at all levels, both in and out of the Council. To work across the entire Council, NHS bodies (the Council has a statutory duty to provide public health advice to ICSs and the Councils Health and Wellbeing Board has a coordinating role for the whole of the health and care system) and other partner agencies.
It will also involve influencing private sector, voluntary sector and community sector organisations that can impact on health and influencing the attitudes and behaviour both of professionals and of the population generally. To be an effective advocate for improving health and tackling health inequalities