Consultant in Public Health

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1.     CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• This post does not have direct clinical responsibilities.

2.     RESPONSIBILITY FOR PATIENTS

• Lead on the promotion of World Class care values, ensuring that the workplace culture is patient-centred, involves service users and residents, responds positively to feedback from user groups and promotes teamwork across services.
• Ensure that changes to services are fully communicated both within the organisation with staff and patients and residents and with external partners, including the Integrated Care Board, Local Authorities, GPs, Commissioners.
• Ensure that residents’ and patients’ health outcomes are considered and improved in all of the public health work programme and inequalities are reduced.

3.     RESPONSIBILITY FOR POLICY AND SERVICE DEVELOPMENT

• Be responsible for leading on development of the Faculty of Population Health, working closely with the Royal Free Academy and Workforce as well as all staff groups.  
• To be comfortable dealing with sensitive and often contentious subjects e.g. domestic violence, substance misuse and being able to see through the implementation in a clinical setting with other competing priorities.
• Be responsible for interpreting national guidance and translating it into service development plans to align national direction/strategies and local priorities, considering the necessary changes in current practice and resource implications.
• Identify areas of service improvement opportunities and lead on business case production, agreement and implementation. Use change management skills and techniques to lead the implementation and development of the Quality Improvement Programmes (QIs) within the directorate/s.
• Undertake service planning and ensure this is aligned to the Group Clinical Strategy.
• Oversee future departmental policy and planning developments including service line plans and reviews.

4.     RESPONSIBILITY FOR FINANCIAL AND PHYSICAL RESOURCES

The postholder will

• Manage the Faculty of Population Health Grant and be an authorised signatory.
• Be responsible for the Royal Free Charity Grant administration, regular quarterly reporting and effectively working within resource
• Be able to develop business cases for further investment in population health priorities.
• Develop the use of patient level costing and service line reporting to support and inform financial management.

5.     RESPONSIBILITY FOR LEADING AND MANAGING

The postholder will

• be responsible for managing a team of project manager/s and behavioural change (MECC) facilitators who will train the wider workforce across the RFL and NMUH.
• be responsible for developing, leading and implementing the workplan for the Faculty of Population Health across RFL and NMUH.
• Ensure regular 1:1s take place and appraisal is carried out for staff and training needs are identified within
• Manage mandatory training levels and ensure that directorate records are kept up to
• Be accountable for managing absence rates within the team they are responsible for.
• Ensure optimal use of staffing resources and review workforce requirements as
• Ensure staff are aware of and implement Trust policies and procedures and establish and implement local guidelines, policies and procedures as
• Ensure that the Trust's policies on conduct and performance are adhered to and communicated effectively to all
• Ensure that all staff are working to maintain a healthy and safe working
• As required, lead on investigations within their own division and support Human Resources to provide independent investigations into complex Human Resource matters in other areas within the Trust. This will include responsibility up to and including terminating a staff member's
• Support the team to raise the profile of the staff survey to ensure compliance with national targets and genuine improvements in working lives based on local

6.     RESPONSIBILITY FOR INFORMATION RESOURCES

• Ensure that a Population Health Management approach is utilised across the Group to inform interventions and projects on population health;
• Work closely with performance and information teams and improve reporting of key performance indicators linked to wider demographics information.
• In conjunction with the Divisional Information Partner ensure that services are provided with high-quality, well-presented and relevant data reports including:

• • Operational efficiency
  • Performance against national and local targets

• Activity and financial performance

• • Service size, configuration and potential for growth

7.     RESPONSIBILITY FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

• To add an academic perspective to all public health work undertaken.
• To be able to set up evaluation studies for population health initiatives.
• Specifically, to be able to critically appraise evidence to inform policy and practice, identify evidence gaps with strategies to address these gaps, undertake research activities of a standard that is publishable in peer-reviewed journals, and demonstrate competence in teaching and learning across all areas of public health practice.
• To establish working relationships and potential partnership with academic health institutions such as North Thames Applied Research Collaboration and UCL Partners.