Deputy Director of Healthcare Public HealthinFulbourninFulbournPUBLISHED WED 9 OCT 2024

The PH Directorate aims to provide strategic leadership, oversight, coherent support, and delivery across a broad range of PH functions across multiple teams - Screening & Immunisation, Health & Justice, Health Equity, Specialised commissioning, dental public health and population health evidence and intelligence. The DD HCPH will be expected to provide strong professional leadership across the broad range of the directorate's functions, have an operational responsibility for the provision of safe and effective public health advice and support, and line management of the Dental, Specialised Commissioning and Population Health Management (DSP) team.

The DD HCPH provides local leadership of the NHS healthcare public health system, on behalf of the RD. The post holder has day-to-day operational responsibility for the provision of an effective healthcare public health system which delivers to high quality standards and is responsive to the needs of the local community and partners in the local public health systems.

The successful candidate will support the Regional Director of Public Health in the strategic oversight of NHS's contribution to improving and protecting the public's health and reducing health inequalities in the locality, achieved by working with partners to build and develop the local public health system through the provision of expert advice and insight and their operational responsibility for the delivery of the healthcare public health service.

As a Deputy Director of Healthcare Public Health, the post holder will lead and work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service supporting staff across the Public Directorate in the East of England to manage the performance of the DSP team and practitioners.

The Deputy Director of Healthcare Public Health provides local leadership of the NHS public health system, on behalf of the Regional Director. The post holder has day-to-day operational responsibility for the provision of an effective healthcare public health system which delivers to high quality standards and is responsive to the needs of the local community and partners in the local public health systems.

The Deputy Director will support the Regional Director of Public Health in the strategic oversight of NHS's contribution to improving and protecting the public's health and reducing health inequalities in the locality. The Deputy Director will support the Regional Director in working with partners to build and develop the local public health system through the provision of expert advice and insight and their operational responsibility for the delivery of the public health service.

All Deputy Directors will work in a networked way across regions to support the regional role of adviser to NHS England and contribute to national work on developing a comprehensive public health system with NHSE sub regional teams.

About us

The post holder will oversee, coordinate and deliver high quality professional PH input, support and advice to the NHS England at Regional level to drive improvements in outcomes and reduction in health inequalities across the population in a way that is cost effective to support NHS Englands sub regional team including public health advice to support:

• Overall strategy for improving population health at a local level
• The strategy for implementing the 5 year forward view (5YFV)
• Direct commissioning responsibilities for primary care (including medical services; Ophthalmic services; community pharmaceutical services etc.)
• Public health service commitments defined through the Section 7a agreement;
• Quality and efficiency programme QIPP, and its Commissioning and Pathways; Provider Efficiency; and System Enablers national work streams to ensure cost effectiveness across primary, secondary and tertiary health services and care
• You will identify future challenges to the publics health and wellbeing and act as a professional advisor for NHSE and local CCGs (in support of Directors of Public Health) on all matters related to healthcare public health.
• You will work effectively and promote good relationships between NHSE, local authorities, ICBs, OHID and UKHSA.
• Represent the Public Health Directorate at meetings relating to the performance of DSP practitioner
• Input into the development and monitoring of performance improvement action plans for practitioner
• Attendand provide expert clinical advice to the regulatory Panel Meetings.
• Ensure that any new legislation, NICE requirements and NHS regulations and guidance are implemented appropriately
• Participate in peer review of individual performance at least once per year.
• Coordinate needs assessment and defining of priorities to ensure population health improvement is achieved within available resources
• Implementation of the 5YFV
• Support commissioning and commissioning decisions in providing an evidence-based rationale in order to secure delivery
• Support commissioning approaches for the whole pathway throughout the life cycle, with an emphasis on prevention (including self-care).
• Optimising value for the NHS to provide cost effective, evidence-based solutions through health economics advice.
• Maintaining and enhancing quality, improving outcomes and equity of access throughout the domains of the outcomes framework
• Supporting patient and public engagement through insight and community approaches to engagement
• Supporting the focus on health and health service inequalities through monitoring, supporting strategies, and ensuring effectiveness of intervention
• Providing the public health evidence base and the population perspective (both geographical and disease specific) to seek consensus on changes to health services that may be required
• Exercising strategic influence over the way in which NHSE perceives its role in preventing ill health and promoting good health
• Lead on public health support and advice to commissioning (and disinvestment) by NHSE ensuring that commissioning is underpinned by a focus on evidence-based clinical needs, outcomes and quality and that priorities are based firmly on clinical credibility, added value and a population perspective.

You can find further details about the job, organisational structure, recruitment profile, expected outcomes and benefits information in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.