Consultant in Population Health

This role requires an enthusiastic, population health professional who is passionate about embedding prevention in an acute trust through strategic working, training & education of healthcare staff, & system change. The postholder will be a qualified Public Health Consultant who is expected to lead the development & implementation of the innovative Faculty of Population Health.

The Faculty is a strategic & educational programme that aims to empower staff & patients to have conversations to improve their health. Based on the evidence based principles of Making Every Contact Count (MECC) the Faculty embeds prevention within clinical services to support culture change amongst all patient facing staff.

The postholder will support the Trust to develop this cultural change programme & embed a preventative approach by co developing the Faculty with staff groups across all health units, overseeing bespoke training delivered by an external training provider, establishing a sustainable group wide training the trainer programme, co developing a tiered training programme & overseeing both internal & external evaluation of the programme.

The postholder will be responsible for chairing a Data Working Group that supports the roll out of data & digital intelligence to inform pathway redesign, service planning & workforce optimisation.

They will also be expected to contribute to other population health priorities - smoking cessation programmes, digital & data projects, & research.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will line manage the Population Health programme manager and also line manage the business support manager.

The personal qualities required are to be an excellent communicator with a strong focus on education and training in healthcare population health settings, a strategic thinker and influencer, with a track record of excellent partnership working, delivering and improving population health outcomes and to be a confident whole system leader.

The post holder will be expected to:

• Provide population health leadership and strategic support to the Royal Free Group, with a particular focus on the Faculty of Population Health
• Develop and oversee the implementation of the workplan for the Faculty of Population Health
• Have oversight of the Tobacco Dependency Team and smoking cessation strategy
• Deputise for the RFL Director of Population Health
• Be an accredited Educational Supervisor for Public Health Registrars and provide project supervision to Fellows
• Develop and support a community of practice for prevention in the trust
• Monitor and implement the faculty evaluation framework and communication plan for the Faculty of Population Health, in collaboration with external partners
• Develop productive partnerships and build networks with senior leaders across the Royal Free group, with other acute trusts, and wider partners to learn best practice and implement them at the RFL

About the Trust

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts, operating across three main hospitals. It cares for over 1.6 million patients annually, treating more than 200,000 in A&E, delivering over 8,000 babies and conducting over 17 million tests.

Person Specification Education / Qualifications

• National Health Service (Appointment of Consultants) Regulations 1996 - inclusion in the GMC Full and Specialist Register with a license to practice, or GDC Specialist List, or inclusion in the UK Public Health Register for Public Health Specialists at the point of application.
• Any public health speciality 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 must meet minimum CPD requirements (i.e. be up to date) in accordance with Faculty of Public Health requirements or other recognised body - Masters in Public Health or equivalent.
• Able to influence senior members including directors and CEOs.
• Able to both lead teams and contribute effectively to teams led by junior colleagues.
• Commitment to work within a political system irrespective of personal political affiliations.

Experience

• Delivery of successful change management programmes across organisational boundaries.
• Experience of using complex information to explain public health issues to a range of audiences.
• Media experience demonstrating delivery of effective health behaviour or health promotion messages.

Skills

• Strategic thinker with proven leadership skills and operational nous - able to demonstrate and motivate organisations to contribute to improving the public's health and wellbeing through mainstream activities and within resources.
• Ability to lead and manage the response successfully in unplanned and unforeseen circumstances.
• Analytical skills to utilise both qualitative (including health economics) and quantitative information.
• Ability to design, develop, interpret and implement strategies and policies.

Knowledge

• In depth understanding of the health and care system and relationships with local & national government.
• 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.

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.

£103,102 to £150,569 a year per annum (pro rata) inclusive of HCAS/London weighting pro rata.