Deputy Director: Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service

The Deputy Director Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service (LKIS) will lead local knowledge and intelligence teams which provide regional population health intelligence and surveillance support to local health and care systems

This is a post for a CPH/CPHM post employed by the DHSC based at various locations across the English regions The post-holder is a health professional treating a population/community. The populations served are the regions of England.

The postholder will oversee arrangements to provide effective local-national engagement on population health. They will have a key role in working with national and regional stakeholders including Regional Directors of Public Health to provide system leadership in population health intelligence as a key component of population health management (PHM) and Integrated Care System and Boards.

They will support an integrated and user centred approach to developing and brokering access to national population health analytics tools and support offers. This will require working with key local partners from public, private and academic sectors to build capacity and expertise in population health intelligence and analytics.

This will include leadership of training and workforce development activities, including apprenticeships.Job responsibilities

The role will include working across DHSC, NHSE and UKHSA in support of local health and care systems working with Local Government and ICBs to deliver the DHSC goal for improving health and reducing health inequalities.

As Deputy Director Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service, your responsibilities will be:

• Management and Leadership: Be a positive role model and an effective member of the DHSC Places & Regions Senior Leadership team.
• Lead the function to deliver defined outputs to the required quality, within budget and on-time.
• Take measures to continually develop and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the function.
• Develop staff members to be the best they can be through robust internal communications appropriate delegation, effective appraisal and mentoring, and visible leadership.
• Ensure that staff engagement, as measured by the annual staff survey, in the function is high and improvements are made, year on year.
• Develop innovative practice and service delivery models, both within the DHSC Places & Regions, OHID and beyond, involving other staff groups as appropriate.
• Work with colleagues across DHSC and ALBs to identify and ensure the maintenance of business-critical activities.
• Ensure the business and budgetary planning processes are fully in place and functioning effectively, reporting to agreed standards and timescales.
• Ensure succession planning within the function, responsible for the retention, recruitment, interviewing, selection, and induction of new staff in the function.
• Ensure effective governance of the function through a process of management team meetings and review of relevant governance issues including health and safety and risk. Resolve complaints, grievances, capability, and disciplinary issues at the appropriate level. Providing leadership in a changing environment. Act on behalf of the Regional Director with responsibility for Public Health Intelligence as required.
• In delivering the strategic objectives the post-holder will be expected to demonstrate expertise in the full range of relevant competencies as set out by the Faculty of Public Health. This includes evaluation techniques, policy analysis and translation and ability to communicate effectively with a range of stakeholders including politicians. In addition to any direct responsibility for managing staff or budgets, he/she will be responsible for change and improvement in the agreed areas of work and for supporting the delivery of DHSC responsibilities.