Public health consultant

These three critical roles will work across all our directorates, our partners and communities and report directly to the Director of Public Health. Accountable

for leading and enabling system wide response and partnership action, developing and delivering cost-effective evidence-informed targeted programmes and interventions around specific thematic areas and working in collaboration with communities and partners, internally and externally, to achieve improvements in health and wellbeing for communities and Stoke on Trent residents.

As our new Public Health Consultant, you will lead our multi-disciplinary teams within a public health sub-division, to deliver a public health portfolio. You will have the day-to-day responsibility for enabling, driving and facilitating an increased council focus on the development of collective improved wellbeing outcomes for residents.

To be successful in this role you will take a strategic view of the wider determinants of population health, using all aspects of the portfolio to drive the best possible outcomes for the people of Stoke-on-Trent, connecting with colleagues across the council and external partners to support the delivery of our Corporate strategy and our Health & Wellbeing plan. Additionally, you will engage with the views and opinions of residents to inform how we transform and are at the heart of our strategic decision-making process.

You will be a qualified public health professional and you will take a practical and “hands-on” approach to addressing public health challenges, and to share our vision for tackling inequalities through a broad wellbeing-based approach.

We are open to all backgrounds and specialisms, but it is essential that you are experienced in Public Health services. As a senior officer, you will provide confident, visible, strategic and values-led leadership. You will demonstrate effective political awareness with the aptitude to promote a culture of close collaboration and working strategically. You will be an ambassador for the council, promoting our image as a city, supporting the formation of strategic alliances and developing effective working relationships on a local, regional and national basis, including the local voluntary and community sector, social enterprises, the private sector.

 

About you

To be successful in this role we are looking for the following key attributes:

Visionary and transformational leader; A strong leader with energy, flair, resilience and credibility whom provides others with a clear direction, inspiration and motivation who understands the relationships and culture of organisations that impact on the wider determinants of health as well as health services.

Decision making; Strength in judgement and personal responsibility for actions, projects and people. Ability to work under own direction to generate activities and introduce changes into work processes whilst evaluating risks.            

Formulating Strategies and Concepts; Strategic awareness to realise organisational goals and compelling visions of future potential.

Planning and Organising; Sets clearly defined objectives; plans activities and projects well in advance and consider possible changing circumstances;

Coping with pressures and setbacks; Maintains a positive outlook at work; works productively in a pressurised environment.

Achieving personal work goals and objectives; Tackles demanding goals with enthusiasm, diligence and commitment.

Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking; Demonstrates commercial and business acumen through competitor insight, market trends and service user needs.  

You will have:

• Inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List or UK Public Health Register (UKPHR OR Included in the GMC/GDC Specialist Register in a specialty other than public health medicine/dental public health
• An appropriate professional qualification within the remit of the professions covered with evidence of continuous professional development.
• Able to influence senior members including directors and CEOs
• Able to both lead teams and to able to contribute effectively in teams led by junior colleagues
• Commitment to work within a political system irrespective of personal political affiliations
• Delivery of successful change management programmes across organizational boundaries
• Media experience demonstrating delivery of effective health behaviour or health promotion messages
• Experience of using complex information to explain public health issues to a range of audiences
• Strategic thinker with proven leadership skills and operational nous
• Analytical skills able to utilize both qualitative (including health economics) and quantitative information
• 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)
• Understanding of the public sector duty and the inequality duty and their application to public health practice

This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference, enabling residents to fulfil their potential and supporting our communities.

Are you up for the challenge?

 

Directorate: Public Health

Location: Stoke-on-Trent

Salary: DH2 - £93,326 - £98,048

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Indicative Timetable

Closing date for applications: 25 August 2024

Preliminary/Technical Interviews: 30 August - 2 September 2024

Final Stakeholder and Panel Interviews: 19 - 20 September 2024