About this role
Job summary
The Regional Director of Public Health (RDPH) is DHSCs senior public health representative in the East of England. As both the DHSC (OHID) and NHS Regional Director of Public Health, the role requires public health expertise and exceptional leadership ability.
Reporting to the Deputy Chief Medical Officer and to the NHS Regional Director (East of England), the RDPH leads the regional OHID and NHSE public health teams and provides strategic expertise on health improvement, healthcare quality and health inequalities.
The DHSC Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) leads the Governments health improvement and inequalities work. Under the professional leadership of the Chief Medical Officer (CMO), OHID develops and delivers cross-government action to improve health outcomes, focusing on the shift to prevention and reducing health inequalities. The RDPH plays a vital role in the development and delivery of national OHID policy and programmes.
As part of the regional NHS East of England Executive team, the RDPH provides senior public health leadership across DHSC, OHID and NHSE, leading on regional population health.
The role ensures alignment between national policy and regional and local delivery, working with mayors, local government, NHS partners and Integrated Care Boards (ICBs).
Main duties of the job
The key areas of focus for the Regional Director role includes
Leadership and management of the DHSC/OHID and NHSE Public Health teams to ensure business continuity and delivery of current organisational objectives. Managing the ongoing transformation programme, particularly the implementation of the NHSE Regional Model Blueprint. Strengthening the one Public Health East of England way of working across the DHSC/OHID and NHSE Public Health teams. Enhancing partnership and collaborative initiatives with stakeholders across the wider regional health systems including ADPH, ICBs, academia and VCSE.For full details of the role along with the key skills and essential criteria please see the attached candidate pack.
About us
The Office of Health and Disparities (OHID) in the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) drives the Governments health improvement agenda. Under the professional leadership of the Chief Medical Officer (CMO), OHID will lead the development and delivery of the Governments work to improve and level up health outcomes with a clear focus on public health, prevention and health disparities. This includes cross-government action on the wider determinants of health.
To apply, please submit:
1. A CV setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements. Please ensure you have provided reasons for any gaps within the last two years.
2. A Statement of Suitability (no longer than 1000 words) explaining how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with particular reference to the essential criteria in the candidate pack.
*Please copy your CV, followed by Statement of Suitability into the text box available on NHS Jobs. There is no option to upload separate documents* Please ensure that both documents contain your full name.
Failure to submit both documents will mean the panel only have limited information on which to assess your application against the essential criteria.
Job description Job responsibilities
Overseeing and steering an effective programme of action across the region that delivers on OHIDs national priorities for prevention and health disparities and NHSEs objectives for prevention in the regions.
The RDPH will work closely with national health improvement policy and system strategy teams to support the translation and delivery of national public health priorities in places and assure the effective delivery of public health programmes. This includes acting as a regional lead on specific national programmes on behalf of other RDsPH and working with local system partners to deliver them, developing innovative solutions to complex challenges and sharing best practice.
Person Specification
Knowledge and skills: Essential
Demonstrable understanding of the health and public health system, political environment and evidence-based approach to decision making. Expert public health knowledge, especially in health improvement, health disparities, the wider determinants of health and healthcare public health. Ability to make timely and sound judgements and decisions to secure the effective delivery and sustainability of services, within a highly complex and demanding environment. A willingness and ability both to draw on established evidence and best practice and to challenge themselves and others to think creatively and seek out and spread innovation to generate new solutions to current and future challenges. Understanding of the public sector duty and the inequality duty and their application to public health practice.
Experience Essential
Significant experience in public health practice at a senior level in the public, voluntary and community or private sector. Proven senior leadership skills with track record of systems leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills. Extensive experience in contributing to the development of national strategy and delivering national strategy at a local level. Experience supporting delivery of programmes and enacting change across healthcare and public health systems. Experience of delivering large scale organisational change, transition and transformation in a form that achieved tangible benefit for organisations workforce and the public. Track record in leading and managing complex relationships with a variety of stakeholders with different reporting relationships to achieve the best results. Proven negotiator with highly developed influencing skills to support and facilitate agreements amongst a disparate range of stakeholders to complex, multi-dimensional challenges often with no single right solution. Appreciation and acknowledgment of the range and complexities of diversity; self-awareness in terms of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers; cultural sensitivity and awareness
Qualifications Essential
Must be included 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. Must be a member of the Faculty of Public Health by examination or exemption. Competence consistent with the Faculty of Public Health Person Specification for consultant appointment and able to demonstrate minimum CPD requirements in accordance with the Faculty of Public Health requirements or other recognised body.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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 Department of Health & Social Care
Address NHS Victoria House
Cambridge Road
Fulbourn
Cambridge
CB21 5XA
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-of-health-and-social-care (Opens in a new tab)