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Public Health Consultant Health Improvement from the Company
Wiltshire Council, this latest
Public Health Consultant Health Improvement job vacancy is located in the city
Trowbridge BA located in the country
United Kingdom . This latest job opening is open to job seekers who have the latest education / graduate
GCSE . Job Vacancies in this
Public field have been opened and published up to the specified time.
Job Responsibility:
The range of duties expected of the postholder include: Taking responsibility for a range of public health issues and work across organisational and professional boundaries acting as a change agent managing complexity, ensuring prevention is embedded across the system and to deliver improvements in health and wellbeing.Providing briefings on the health and wellbeing needs of local communities to Councillors, Council Officers, ICBs, the 3rd sector, the public and partners. Where required to do so, the postholder will provide verbal briefing to Councillors, other colleagues and stakeholders in person which maybe at short notice.Taking responsibility for development, implementation and delivery of policies. This may include taking the lead in developing detailed inter-agency and interdisciplinary strategic plans and programmes based on needs assessments which may lead to service specifications. The postholder will be expected to contribute appropriately to the procurement process.Providing expert public health support and whole system leadership to ensure an evidence- based approach for commissioning and developing high quality equitable services, within and across a range of organisations including voluntary, public and private sector. This includes the health service component of the mandated core service. This will include expertise in evaluation and development of appropriate KPIs and outcome measures.Utilising (and if appropriate developing) information and intelligence systems to underpin public health action across disciplines and organisations. This may include providing leadership for collation and interpretation of relevant data including production of the JSNA. Working with the DPH, this will include the integration of the appropriate elements of the public health, crime, NHS and social care outcomes frameworks within the systems developed by the local authority as well as with relevant partner organisations. Supporting the DPH in the development and implementation of robust strategies for improving the health and wellbeing of local communities including ensuring qualitative and/or quantitative measurements are in place to demonstrate improvements. This may include taking responsibility for the judicious use of the ring-fenced public health grant and/or working with ICBs, Trusts, contracted provider organisations and UKHSA and OHID. Providing the key local authority link to the research community, providing advice/support to colleagues and co-ordinating appropriate access to scientific information. The postholder will be expected to take part in relevant research networks and to influence research programmes of such networks so that the research needs of the local authority are taken into account.Taking responsibility for the training obligations of the directorate, including undertaking the responsibility of Education and Activity Supervisor. These duties will be agreed jointly with the relevant Head of School of the South West Public Health Specialty training programme. Underpinning much of these duties are public health tasks such as: Undertaking health needs assessments as required to enable evidence led actions to be taken to improve the health of the local population.Developing prioritisation techniques and managing their application to policies, services and to help resolve issues such as the investment-disinvestment debate.Effective communication of complex concepts, science and data and their implications for local communities, to a range of stakeholders with very different backgrounds.Understanding of evaluation frameworks and applying those frameworks to the benefit of local communities.A capacity to apply the scientific body of knowledge on public health to the polices and services necessary to improve health and to formulate clear practical evidence-based recommendations.The understanding of human and organisational behaviour and the application of this knowledge to the achievement of changeInspire commitment to public health outcomes and to prevention as a core feature of public sector reform.Take the lead on behalf of the council for issues relating to health protection, ensuring good links with local, regional and national bodies, such as UKHSA, NHSE.
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Closed Date : 2024-12-04