Consultant in Public Health

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Consultant in public Health in Sefton Council. We are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic Consultant to join our friendly, creative and forward-thinking team. You will be leading across health protection, health care and prevention interventions.

You will be joining our public health team as we continue to work across Sefton to deliver our ambitious health and wellbeing outcomes.

We are committed to improving and protecting the health of people in Sefton and reducing preventable differences in health outcomes. Your role will be to lead our health protection planning and response, working with partners to prevent and reduce levels of communicable disease, environmental hazards, and ensure that screening and immunisation programmes have a comprehensive coverage within the local population.

The post holder will be locally based to build broad local partnerships. The Public Health Team have a hybrid working approach to support this.

You will deputise for the Director of Public Health and support the team in specialist public health training and be able to provide expert advice on all health matters.

Main duties of the job

This role will be one of a systems leader and strategist, leading a small team including an advanced practitioner in public health and public health lead. The successful post holder will provide specialist public health advice on priority population needs and proven interventions to improve health, working with elected members, senior officers and partners together with internal and external commissioners and providers, including the ICB and the Cheshire and Mersey Public Health Network.

About us

Sefton is a great place to come to work. It is most northern borough of Liverpool City Region with more than 275,000 residents.

Boasting 22 miles of stunning coastline, Sefton is a leading coastal tourist destination with a flourishing visitor economy. Spanning the busy Port of Liverpool, the famous Antony Gormleys Another Place installation, attractive beaches and dunes, to the resort town of Southport, the diversity of the Borough provides a unique mix of urban and natural setting.

This is a diverse and exciting Borough where people can enjoy a great work-life balance. With excellent transport links, Sefton is well placed for accessing cities across the Northwest, including Liverpool and Manchester.

Sefton is a vibrant local authority that is already on a journey of aspiration and ambition as it works towards delivering its exciting Vision 2030. This journey is shared with our partners and communities as we strive to ensure Sefton is a confident and connected Borough.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The postholder will contribute to achieving the priorities of Sefton Council and thevision for 2030, building on the wider vision for system change. ImagineSefton 2030 will engage the public, local businesses and potential investorsin creating a vision that will collectively promote shared prosperity,coordinated public investment, and a healthy environment and population. As asenior leader in the public health team and across the council the post holderwill help make the vision a reality, adding value and strengthening the healthand wellbeing outcomes.

Thepost holder will support the local authority to take all steps necessary toimprove and protect the health of its population. This includes supportingaction to protect residents of Sefton from immediate and future threats totheir health, and seeking assurances that all relevant organisations in thearea have appropriate plans in place to protect the health of the populationand that all necessary action is being taken.

Keyportfolio areas will include health protection, screening and immunisations, andinfection prevention and control. The postholder will give advice to a range ofsettings, planning surveillance, and response to incidents and outbreaks. Thepost holder will also lead programmes of health care public health, healthimprovement and prevention interventions, including tobacco control, NHS HealthChecks, oral health and childrens health and wellbeing.

StrategicDuties and Responsibilities

Supportthe Director of Public Health (DPH) in their role reporting to and supportingthe work of relevant Council committees and governance bodies, including Health& Wellbeing Board, , Health Protection Forum and Place and PartnershipCommittees within the Integrated Care System.

Ensuredevelopment and maintenance of systems and processes to enable the localauthority to work with partners to respond to major incidents including healthprotection threats. On behalf of the DPH, to lead on those aspects that theSecretary of State delegates to the authority. Ensure that partnerorganisations (UKHSA, ICB and NHS) have appropriate mechanisms, to enable surgecapacity to be delivered as and when required

Onbehalf of the authority to take responsibility for ensuring delivery of thepublic health mandated services such that the full range of benefits aredelivered to residents of the local authority. This will include takingresponsibility for the relevant outcome indicators within the Public Health,NHS, and Social Care Outcome frameworks and working across organisationalboundaries.

Tolead health protection work across all Council directorates as well asinfluencing partnership boards dealing with environmental hazards, and climatechange, to maximise health improvement opportunities and the reduction ofinequalities in health outcomes amongst residents.

Leadthe delivery of the health protection programmes, including for example,responsibilities relating to acute respiratory infections, Tuberculosis, bloodborne viruses, extreme weather planning and pandemic disease planning, andmaintaining oversight of nationally commissioned health protection programmes,including childhood and adult immunisation programmes, cancer and non-cancerscreening programmes

Providestrategic leadership around health protection and community infectionprevention and control.

Providestrategic leadership around health care public health and health improvement(including NHS Health Checks, oral health and tobacco control).

Strategicobjectives

Tosupport the Councils Senior Management and to assist the Chief Executiveworking with Elected Members and senior officers to realise the Councilsobjectives, priorities and values.

Todeputise for the Director of Public Health and represent the Council ensuringthat the reputation of the Council is effectively managed.

Tosupport change management and promote clear, effective and transparentcommunication at all levels, both in and out of the Council.

Towork across the entire Council, NHS bodies (the Council has a statutory duty toprovide public health advice to ICSs and the Councils Health and WellbeingBoard has a coordinating role for the whole of the health and care system) andother partner agencies. It will also involve influencing private sector,voluntary sector and community sector organisations that can impact on healthand influencing the attitudes and behaviour both of professionals and of thepopulation generally.

To be an effectiveadvocate for improving health and tackling health inequalities

Person Specification

Personal Qualities

Essential

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

Qualifications

Essential

The National Health Service (Appointment of Consultants) Regulations 1996 ( 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* 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 ( 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

Desirable

Masters in Public Health or equivalent

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

Strategic thinker with proven leadership skills and operational nous Able to demonstrate and motivate organisations to contribute to improving the publics 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 *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.

Experience

Essential

Delivery of successful change management programmes across organizational boundaries Experience of using complex information to explain public health issues to a range of audiences

Desirable

Media experience demonstrating delivery of effective health behaviour or health promotion messages

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