Consultant in Population Health

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To take responsibility for the development, implementation, and delivery of policies. To work closely with corporate and place teams to help create and deliver the 5-year ICB strategy; this will include taking the lead in developing detailed inter-agency and interdisciplinary delivery plans and programmes based on needs assessments which may lead to service specifications.
• To deliver on the delegation of any 7a or other public health responsibilities from NHSE/I to C&M ICB in line with national timelines and to provide leadership for the aligned team and their functions.
• To support the development of the Integrated Care Partnership (known locally as the HCP), including input into annual work programme and business plan.
• To act as an advocate for the principles of population health including reducing health inequalities, a whole-system approach to prevention, addressing the wider determinants of health underpinned by an intelligence led approach of population health management
• To work across the partnership to establish key and effective working relationships by working with complex professional, managerial and population groups and other organisations.
• To provide senior leadership for Population Health programmes across C&M with a specific focus on the the priorities associated with All Together Fairer (social determinants of health), Healthy Behaviours, Health Inequalities and CORE20PLUS5 programmes.
• To collaborate with system leads for Population Health Management and Intelligence (e.g., Combined Intelligence for Population Health Action (CIPHA)), working closely with the ICB’s CIO and the Associate Director for Business Intelligence. Advising on insight and intelligence including prioritisation, risk stratification, data recording, collection systems and annual monitoring to track progress and hold system partners to account for improving outcomes
• To support the development of the NHS, public and private sector businesses as Anchor and Social Value organisations to increase local training, employment, procurement and assets and address health and social care workforce shortages
• To develop and promote adoption of the Cheshire and Merseyside Fair Employment Charter by NHS and partner organisations to support fair employment policies, payment of the Real Living Wage and enhance workforce health and wellbeing
• To facilitate the extension the NHS Prevention Pledge to all C&M NHS Trusts and drive upstream, ill-health prevention at scale for all NHS staff, patients, and visitors
• To provide reports, updates, and briefings to the ICB, Population Health Board, C&M DsPH and other relevant bodies
• To work with key system stakeholders and across the C&M ICB to ensure prevention programmes priorities are aligned under the C&M Prevention Framework
• To provide support and assurance to the ICS Assistant CE and C&M DsPH on key transformation priorities, opportunities, risks, and achievements
• To provide strong leadership to programme resources, defining work, ensuring deadlines are adhered to and programme objectives are clearly articulated and understood
• To act as an ambassador to the ICB, promoting and developing its reputation, forming robust strategic alliances, ensuring strategic connectivity with external partners, other relevant organisations, government departments and agencies
• To provide expert public health support and whole system leadership to ensure an evidence-based approach for commissioning and developing high quality equitable services, within and across a range of organisations including voluntary, public, and private sector. This includes the health service component of the mandated core service. This will include expertise in evaluation and development of appropriate KPIs
• To take responsibility for the training obligations linked to becoming an Educational Supervisor within the ICS. These duties will be agreed jointly with the relevant Head of the School of Public Health