Consultant in Public Health - Newcastle upon Tyne - ref. c70125719
Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep.
Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and innovative Consultant in Public Health to join a progressive and supportive public health department at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. You will work with the Lead Consultant in Public Health (Head of Service) and established core public health team to provide public health leadership, expertise and population insight into the planning and delivery of care across the organisation.
The post holder will lead a defined portfolio of work, which is to include programmed time supporting public health education within medical undergraduate education. You will develop and support strategic programmes to embed prevention and equity of access, experience and outcomes as part of the organisations core business ensuring effective collaboration with the wider system and ensuring close working relationships with the Local Authority Public Health Teams.
Please note this post is advertised using Agenda for Change standard, however may be suited to a qualified and experienced medical post holder.
The shortlisting process will include a faculty of Public Health assessor.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will help progress the Trust’s contribution to addressing health inequalities and health improvement for patients, their families, staff and the wider population, managing multiple and changing demands and pressured deadlines.We care for patients across Northumberland and North Tyneside in hospitals, the community and at home.
Our organisation has a reputation for the pursuit of excellence, as demonstrated by our recognition as one of the country’s top performing trusts, twice rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission. We welcome applications from Public Health Consultants who will help to ensure improvement is not only about doing things better but also about doing better things, scaling up learning to support the shift from a reactive to a proactive model and engaging inclusively with patients and the public.
A high level of intellectual rigour, political awareness, negotiation and motivation skills and flexibility are required. The ability to establish and maintain effective relationships and advise, challenge and advocate to enable effective working across organisational boundaries are crucial.In particular, working with Local Authority Public Health teams, NHS bodies, voluntary and community organisations and the Integrated Care System to ensure a coherent and strategic approach to improving population health across our geography through evidence-based action.
Working for our organisation
The Public Health team has seen a lot of growth and this post will be key to increasing public health capacity. The Public Health team cover a wide and varied topic range, including, but not exclusive, personalised care, tobacco dependency, healthy weight, public health maternity, staff health and well-being and supporting the wider Trust to embed public health approaches in their clinical pathways and teams.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust are seeking to increase their capacity to embed public health across the organisation through the recruitment of a second Consultant in Public Health, which is to include programmed time working with medical undergraduate education.
We are looking to appoint an innovative and enthusiastic Consultant in Public Health who will work with the existing Consultant in Public Health (Head of Public Health) and wider public health team to provide public health leadership, expertise and population insight into the planning and delivery of care across the organisation.The post holder will lead a defined portfolio of work, develop and support new ways of working to promote prevention and equity of access, experience and outcome as part of the organisations core business ensuring effective collaboration with the wider system.
The post holder will help progress the Trust’s contribution to health improvement and reducing health inequalities for patients, their families, staff and the wider population. The post holder will be expected to cope with multiple and changing demands and to meet tight deadlines.
A high level of intellectual rigour, political awareness, negotiation and motivation skills and flexibility are required. Working in partnership across multiple organisations including the NHS, Local Government and voluntary, community and social enterprise sector partners across the Integrated care system.The postholder will have the ability to maintain effective relationships and understand other cultures and advise, challenge and advocate to enable effective working across organisational boundaries.
The post holder will contribute to and influence system wide strategies, plans and programmes working closely with Local Authority Public Health teams to ensure a coherent and strategic approach to influencing the wider determinants of health and improving population health across the health economy.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Public health skills and knowledge to Faculty of Public Health accredited level acquired through degree plus extended specialist training to Faculty membership and fellowship level
- Inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List/UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialists
- 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 medicine practice
- Public health specialty registrar applicants who are not yet on the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List in dental public health/UKPHR must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they are within 6 months of gaining entry at the date of interview; all other applicants must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they have applied for inclusion in the GMC/GDC/UKPHR specialist registers
- 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
- Master’s in Public Health
- Educational Qualification
Experience
Essential criteria- Experience of teaching, training and mentoring staff
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary setting
- Understanding of NHS and local government cultures, structures and policies
- Knowledge of methods of developing clinical quality assurance, quality improvement and evidence based clinical and/or public health practice
- Experience of commissioning and managing large budgets within the NHS
- Experience and a proven track record of developing strategies/resources and delivering on projects within the NHS
- Knowledge and experience of patient safety and quality improvement principles and practice
- Sound and broad knowledge of the MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) curriculum at Newcastle Medical School
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates.We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.