Public Health Consultant

Job information Public Health Consultant from the Company Leicestershire County Council, this latest Public Health Consultant job vacancy is located in the city Leicester LE. This latest job opening is open to job seekers who have the latest education / graduate . Job Vacancies in this Government field have been opened and published up to the specified time.

Job Description :

Main Duties and Responsibilities 1 To lead commissioning for public health services. 2 To lead the development of inter-agency and interdisciplinary short & long-term strategic plans working collaboratively across the Council and with other agencies with a key focus on childrens public health across Leicestershire and Rutland County Councils. 3 To have overall responsibility for Childrens Public Health in Leicestershire and to manage the childrens public health commissioning, including staff management. 4 To advise on a range of complex public health issues, advise the Health & Wellbeing Boards at Leicestershire and Rutland County Councils and make recommendations regarding services, patient care and wider determinants of health. To have lead responsibility for training in the department including speciality training liaising with the School and departmental educational supervisors, supporting those in the department going through the portfolio route, and wider departmental CPD 5 To deputise for the Director as required 6 Use of public health intelligence to survey and assess a populations health and wellbeing: – To be able to synthesise data into information about the surveillance or assessment of a populations health and wellbeing from multiple sources that can be communicated clearly and inform action planning to improve population health outcomes. 7 Assessing the evidence of effectiveness of interventions, programmes and services intended to improve the health or wellbeing of individuals or populations: – To be able to use a range of resources to generate and communicate appropriately evidenced and informed recommendations for improving population health across operational and strategic health and care settings. 8 Policy and strategy development and implementation – To be able to influence and contribute to the development of policy as well as lead the development and implementation of a strategy. 9 Strategic leadership and collaborative working for health – To use a range of effective strategic leadership, organisational and management skills, in a variety of complex public health situations and contexts, dealing effectively with uncertainty and the unexpected to achieve public health goals. 10 Health Improvement, Determinants of Health and Health Communications – To influence and act on the broad determinants and behaviours influencing health at a system, community and individual level. 11 Health Protection – To identify, assess and communicate risks associated with hazards relevant to health protection, and to lead and co-ordinate the appropriate public health response. 12 Health and Care Public Health – To be able to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, safety, reliability, responsiveness and equity of health and care services through applying insights from multiple sources including formal research, health surveillance, needs analysis, service monitoring and evaluation. 13 Academic public health – To add an academic perspective to all public health work undertaken. Specifically to be able to critically appraise evidence to inform policy and practice, identify evidence gaps with strategies to address these gaps, undertake research activities of a standard that is publishable in peer-reviewed journals, and demonstrate competence in teaching and learning across all areas of public health practice. 14 Responsible for protecting and managing information securely, and reporting breaches or suspected information security breaches, in line with Council policies.