About this role
Job summary
The Public Health department is at the heart of the councils business. It is a well-established team, with strong links across council departments, joined-up working with the NHS and excellent partnerships with the community and voluntary sectors. We work as part of the London and the South-East London public health systems, the South East London ICS and are active engaged in work across borough boundaries & London-wide.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking to appoint a public health professional to an exciting and new opportunity. This post will provide leadership across the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the local NHS Integrator, Oxleas NHS Trust to a range of critical public health functions and lead the development of the population health function for the integrator. The post will be employed by the Local Authority and will report into the Director of Public Health and the Medical Director at Oxleas NHS Trust.
You will have the strategic lead for health protection, sexual health and healthcare public health Your teams will provide expert input into the commissioning team and will work closely with other council departments, the NHS and other system partners to make a positive contribution to the health and wellbeing of local people.
If you are looking for your next challenge and an opportunity to be part of the senior leadership team of a vibrant and forward-thinking team, wed love to hear from you.
Candidates must be registered public health specialists on the GMC Specialist Register, the GDC Specialist List or the UK Public Health Register (UKPHR). For more information please see the attached Job Description and Candidate Application Pack.
About us
Greenwich is a great place to work. A London borough of culture and diversity, Greenwich hosts the O2 arena, the Royal Park, the Royal Observatory, the Cutty Sark and the Royal Naval College. It is also a place with significant social, economic and health inequalities; the council and its partners are determined to address these as our strategic priorities.
Job description Job responsibilities
Main Duties:
As a senior leader within the RBG Public Health team and Oxleas NHS Trust, you will be responsible for providing effective leadership and management for teams of public health managers, specialists, practitioners and commissioners within the division of the department you lead; ensuring that staff and financial resources are deployed effectively to address public health priorities in the borough. You will have over-arching responsibility for the portfolio of the division in:
Leading the departments approach to healthcare public health, through the provision of a range of advice and support to the NHS with a particular focus on prevention, tackling health inequalities and reducing unwarranted variation in access to care.
Ensuring that the public health department provides a strong analytical and support offer to the health and care system to enable effective service development, evaluation and review.
Leading and developing cross-agency strategic commissioning plans to improve health and tackle health inequalities. These include plans to commission high public health quality services to meet the needs of the residents of Greenwich across a range priority strategic and service areas, including statutory public health provision.
Overseeing the approach to the surveillance of health protection risks and outcomes for the population of Greenwich, the development of plans to reduce and mitigate risks, and the mobilising of effective responses in the event of public health outbreaks, epidemics or other major health protection situations.
Ensuring a particular focus is placed on effective infection prevention and control, the uptake of screening programmes, the health risks posed by the effects of climate change, emergency preparedness and programmes to improve vaccination and immunisation uptake.
Ensuing effective joint working and co-ordination of health protection functions with the UKHSA, ICB / NHS, and council departments such as Emergency Planning and Environmental Health.
Ensuring that the department makes a central contribution to the wider health and care partnerships commitment to developing healthy and resilient neighbourhoods through partnerships with services, community, voluntary and faith sectors and residents themselves.
Ensuring that the wider health and care system is trained and supported to build prevention into workforce across the system, for example through the ongoing strategic roll-out of the Make Every Opportunity Count programme and training for a wide network of staff in understanding and accessing the Live Well Greenwich programme.
The post holder will provide regular, timely and expert advice to Council officers, elected members, health and care partners and relevant committees on policy directives, national and corporate requirements and on matters relating to prevention, population health and health protection.
Leading on strategic groups which are co-ordinating these priority areas within the Boroughs Health and Wellbeing Strategy and the councils Corporate Plan.
Ensuring that the staff teams managed by the postholder work seamlessly with specialist teams managed within the other divisions of the department, such as subject expert strategists, health intelligence and business support colleagues.
Liaise with the Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Services, other lead Members and the Leader of the council as required by the Director of Public Health; providing written and verbal briefings and responding to Member-led strategy and enquiries.
Deputise for the Director of Public Health and the Director of Health and Adult Services as required. This can include representing senior colleagues and the directorate at Greenwich Management Team level, in meetings with elected members, within the borough, regionally and nationally through the Association of Director of Public Health (ADPH) network and working groups.
Take a London-wide leadership role for specific pan-Borough programmes of work of relevance to their expertise (e.g., health protection, healthcare public health etc.), as a Consultant / AD member of the London ADPH professional network.
Provide supervision and support for public health and GP registrars on placement within the department, assisting them to develop their skills and competence in Public Health and managing their work programmes in liaison with other senior colleagues in the department.
Contribute to the interpretation of monitoring and surveillance data; advising on priorities and securing evidence-based interventions and service improvements to address local priorities.
The post holder will be professionally responsible to the Director of Public Health. Professional appraisal will be required of the post holder in line with Faculty of Public Health requirements.
The post holder will:
Support any surge capacity requirements relating to communicable disease control / health protection as requested by the UKHSA.
Be expected to deputise for other senior colleagues as required
Supervise Specialist Registrars in Public Health Medicine, Public Health Specialist Trainees in addition to a range of expert substantive staff teams
Professional obligations: the post holder will be expected to: participate in the organisations staff appraisal scheme and departmental audit processes, and ensure appraisal and development of any staff / trainees for which s/he is responsible
contribute actively to the training programme for Foundation Year Doctors/SHOs/Specialist Registrars in Public Health Medicine and Public Health Specialist Trainees as appropriate, and to the training of practitioners and healthcare professionals within the locality as needed
pursue a programme of CPD in accordance with Faculty of Public Health requirements, or other recognised body, and undertake revalidation via enhanced appraisal process (for doctors), audit or other measures required to remain on the GMC/GDC Specialist Register or the UK Voluntary Register for Public Health Specialists or other specialist register as appropriate
In line with the Faculty of Public Healths competency areas for senior public health practitioners, as recognised by the Faculty of Public Health and the UK Voluntary Register Board, it is expected that this post will, over time, need to cover the vast majority of the range of tasks as set-out in both core and defined areas outlined below.
To undertake any other work appropriate to the level and general nature of the posts duties.
Where necessary for the job role or appropriate for continued development in the role, the post holder may be required to participate in training and development courses made available via the Councils Apprentice Levy funding.
To undertake all duties with due regard to the provisions of health and safety regulations and legislation, Data Protection/GDPR, the Councils Equal Opportunities and Customer Care policies.
To perform all duties in line with Councils staff values showing commitment to improving residents lives and opportunities, demonstrating respect and fairness, taking ownership, working towards doing things better and working together across the council.
To ensure that appropriate levels of emergency planning and business continuity management preparedness are in place for the service, and that your teams are appropriately briefed on their roles in an emergency.
To be responsible for undertaking employee investigations, hearings and appeals in line with the RBG policies and procedures.
Responsible for providing mentoring opportunities to junior staff (e.g. graduates, apprentices etc.)
This post does not require a DBS
To undertake supervision/management of staff as and when required.
You may be required to undertake alternative, additional or ancillary duties from time to time or transfer to another service department within the Council as the Council may reasonably direct to meet service user demand in the event of a crisis or emergency.
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
Skills 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
Qualifications Essential
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 specialty 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 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. 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 for additional guidance] 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
Desirable
Masters in Public Health or equivalent
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
Knowledge Essential
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 (dealing with wider determinants of health) Understanding of the public sector duty and the inequality duty and their application to public health practice
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Royal Borough of Greenwich
Address The Woolwich Centre
35 Wellington Street
Woolwich
London
SE18 6HQ
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)