Job summary
- Main area
- Public Health
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant/NHS AfC: Band 9
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week (40 hours if Consultant Grade/37.5 hours if Agenda for Change: Band 9)
- Job ref
- 990-SE-6795828-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Any NHS England South East Base
- Town
- Oxford/Southampton/Reading/Horley
- Salary
- Salary is dependant on experience
- Closing
- 15/12/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 17/01/2025
Employer heading
Deputy Director Healthcare Public Health
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant/NHS AfC: Band 9
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join NHS England to work with the Regional Public Health team for the South East Region. As an applicant for this role, you are strongly encouraged to demonstrate within your supporting statement a combination of evidence that reflects your competence to meet the job specification.
This is a full time 10 Programmed Activities per week/ 37.5 hours appointment to the terms and conditions of service for doctors in public health medicine and community health service and hospital medical and dental staff England and Wales or on NHS Agenda for Change terms and conditions of service if from a non-medical background (Band 9).
The salary for this post will be to the point of the consultant medical salary scale for England appropriate to your years of seniority or Agenda for Change band 9 if from a non-medical background. For further information please see NHS Terms and Conditions of Service Handbook.
This is a Non-Reserved post under the Civil Service Nationality Rules and is therefore open to UK, Commonwealth and European Economic Area (EEA) Nationals and certain non-EEA members.
Main duties of the job
The role of Deputy Director in Healthcare Public Health for the South East Region is an exciting opportunity to lead a team of public health professionals working to improve health by delivering evidence-based public health advice. The Deputy Director for Healthcare Public Health provides local leadership of the NHS healthcare public health system, on behalf of the Regional Director.
The Deputy Director contributes to improving and protecting the public health through: championing prevention and reducing demand in healthcare, improving efficiency and value in healthcare, and identifying and reducing inequalities.
The postholder will be an experienced leader adept at working with colleagues in different parts of the health system and beyond, building partnerships to improve health. Leading a team of ~13 people, including six consultants in public health, the post-holder will develop overall strategy, identify future challenges and promote good relationships between NHSE, ICBs, local authorities, OHID and UKHSA. The work will include supporting the ‘left shift’ of NHS services from sickness to prevention and from hospital to home. The work will also cover providing high quality support on dental public health, specialised commissioning, and health and justice.
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the Government website.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see job description for a full list of responsibilities and person specification.
If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume you have not been shortlisted for the next stage.
Interviews will be held face to face in our NHS England London office, Wellington House, 133-155 Waterloo Road or remotely via Teams
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- 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
- Public health specialty registrar applicants who are not yet on the GMC Specialist Register, UKPHR register or GDC Specialist List in dental public health 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 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
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- High level understanding of epidemiology and statistics, public health practice, health promotion, health economics and health care evaluation.
- Knowledge of methods of developing clinical quality assurance, quality improvement and evidence based clinical and/or public health practice.
- Understanding of NHS and local government cultures, structures and policies.
- Understanding of social and political environment.
- Understanding of interfaces between health and social care.
- Significant strategic experience of leadership for healthcare public health at senior level
- Staff management and training at senior level
- Practical experience in facilitating change at senior level
- Scientific publications, presentation of papers at conferences, seminars etc
Skills, Capabilities and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Strategic thinker with proven leadership skills
- Proven excellent oral and written communication skills (including dealing with the public and the media)
- Proven effective interpersonal and motivational skills
- Able to influence senior leaders
- Sensible negotiator with practical expectation of what can be achieved
- Substantially numerate, with highly developed analytical skills using qualitative and quantitative data
- Computer literate
- Ability to design, develop, interpret and implement policies
- Ability to concentrate for long periods (e.g. analyses, media presentations)
- Resource management skills
- Project management skills
- Budget management skills
- Training and mentoring skills
Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria
- Strong commitment to public health principles
- Actively develops themselves and supports others to do the same.
- Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values.
- Able to prioritise work and work well against a background of change and uncertainty.
- Adaptable to situations, can handle people of all capabilities and attitudes.
- Commitment to team-working, and respect and consideration for the skills of others
- Self-motivated, pro-active, and innovative
- High standards of professional probity
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do
- Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients.
- Consistently looks to improve what they do, looks for successful tried and tested ways of working, and also seeks out innovation.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Essential criteria
- Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel to office base/other locations when required
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Tim Elwell-Sutton
- Job title
- Deputy Regional Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
If you would like to discuss the role further, please contact [email protected]
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