Public Health Consultant
What's involved with this role:
Interim Public Health Consultant
Dudley 107661
Pay Rate: Up to £621.92 per day PAYE depending on experience
Enhanced DBS disclosure required for this role
Key Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in science, nursing, social science or health sciences.Health, GMC or UKPHR registered.
In-depth understanding of health and care system and relationships with both local & national government.
Strong and demonstrable understanding of interfaces between health, social care and key partners (dealing with wider determinants of health).
Experience of using complex information to explain public health issues to a range of audiences.
Full UK driving licence required for this role.
The postholder will lead the Council’s public health services across the life course, communities and healthy places including the commissioning and provision of evidence- based and intelligence- led services to protect and improve the health and wellbeing across the life course.S/he will lead the provision of public health support the mobilisation and integration of recently procured PH services.
They will provide public health expertise and advise to system alliances influencing the setting of intelligence led priorities to improve health and wellbeing outcomes. They will support community development and community empowerment.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead, manage and co-ordinate a defined service area or service functions with full operational responsibility and accountability.Effectively manage and control a range of resources (human, financial, technological) to provide and/or commission high quality services that meet the needs of Dudley’s residents and provide excellence in client and customer service.
Ensure effective and high-quality business and service planning processes, including setting, monitoring and recording of delivery against clearly defined objectives and outcomes and in accordance with corporate requirements.
Ensure that the service(s) meet expectations and achieves service objectives through adopting a proactive, positive and effective approach to performance management at individual and service level.
Exercise any delegated statutory powers allocated to the post holder in accordance with the Council's Constitution.
Promote and implement good employment policy and practice ensuring that individuals are effectively performance managed; supported in their professional development and fully equipped to deliver service expectations. This also includes services not within the post holders’ remit, personally conducting investigations for grievance, disciplinary and redundancy cases and chairing decision making panels
Ensure the effective and efficient implementation and management of change across all areas of service responsibility.Liaise and work collaboratively with other service managers to deliver and/or commission services that help deliver the Council’s strategic aims and objectives, ensuring the best interests of the council are secured through the negotiation and monitoring of contracts with all relevant external service providers.
Lead and ensure active and positive engagement with external partners and stakeholders at strategic and operational levels in order to support the delivery of the Councils aims and objectives.Ensure that service provision is responsive to and reflects overall client, service user and wider community feedback within the context of achieving the Council’s aims and objectives.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the role to help support your application should be clearly shown in your CV.
Due to the number of CVs being sent to us unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion.1
Job Ref: Dudley 107661
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
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