Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The postholder will provide specialist and technical public health leadership to the ICB to support mandatory responsibilities relating to preventing ill health and promoting healthy lives, with a specific focus on healthcare public health and health protection, but with opportunities to work across the full breadth of ICB responsibilities, including:

1. Providing Public Health leadership to strategy and policy development in the ICB and across the wider GM system, including working with a diverse range of professionals and elected members from across a range of organisations to effectively communicate an evidence-based approach and advocate for proposals to improve the population’s health
2. Providing specialist Health Protection leadership and support across the ICS, as part of a networked approach across the 10 GM localities with specific responsibilities in relation to the management of outbreaks and infectious diseases
3. Being accountable, with minimal oversight from Chief Officers, for specialist Healthcare Public Health leadership and support across the ICS including consultant-level strategic oversight of the ICB statutory responsibilities in relation to health protection / outbreak management, section7A public health services, health and justice, and healthcare public health programmes relating to communicable diseases such as TB, HIV and Hepatitis.
4. Using and interpreting data, intelligence and insight to assess the populations health and wellbeing, undertaking needs assessments, and defining priorities to ensure population health improvement is achieved within available resources.  This will include advising on and conducting health needs assessment, health impact assessments and health equity audits.
5. Working across organisations and partners to review service provision and commission approaches for whole pathways throughout the life cycle, with an emphasis on evidence-based prevention (including self-care) and early intervention.  This will involve 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.
6. Optimising value for money by using health economics, critical appraisal of the evidence and a population perspective to provide a technical evidence base for the setting of priorities, including identifying areas for disinvestment and investment
7. Engaging with a wide range of key stakeholders, including the public to ensure joined up and comprehensive action is undertaken to improve health outcomes and reduce health inequalities
8. Leading specific pan-GM programmes of work that are aimed at improving health outcomes and reducing health inequalities
9. Providing strong professional and managerial leadership within and beyond the ICB, including setting clear objectives and measures, managing performance and resources, and assessing impact or risk
10. Advising on modelling the contribution that interventions make to defined outcomes for locally designed and populated care pathways and current and future health needs.
11. Advising on the design of monitoring and evaluation frameworks and establishing and evaluating indicators and benchmarks to map service performance as a means of maintaining and enhancing quality, improving outcomes and ensuring equity of access and a reduction in inequalities
12. Leading or supporting patient and public engagement through insight and community-based approaches to engagement and co-production
13. Supporting public health related research bids with academic partners and commissioning research or audits where funding is available.

Full details of the requirements of the role are set out within the Job Description.

The successful candidate will be required to be competent across the full breadth of the Faculty of Public Health Curriculum,