POST SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES Provide public health expertise across all domains of public health taking on a defined leadership.....
POST SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES Provide public health expertise across all domains of public health taking on a defined leadership portfolio; including the management and resource responsibilities aligned to your lead area. Connect with a wide range of stakeholders, through mature and strong relationships, to fully exploit all opportunities for improving public health outcomes. Use data, insight, and evidence in the development and implementation of robust strategies for improving health and wellbeing ensuring qualitative and/or quantitative measurements are in place to demonstrate improvements. Develop and use information and intelligence systems to underpin public health action across disciplines and organisations, including input to the production of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA), surveillance, monitoring and evaluation of health and wellbeing in Wigan. Effectively communicate complex concepts and data and their implications for local communities, to a range of stakeholders with very different backgrounds, providing written and verbal briefings, reports and presentations when required. Contribute to public health research, and/or commission research audits/projects, and/or undertake research or audit and participate in and influence relevant research networks so that the research needs of Wigan are considered. Work with UKHSA and other partners to ensure local communities are protected from infectious disease threats (including food and water borne disease, pandemics, etc) and environmental hazards and that health protecting activity (immunisation and screening, sexual health) is effective. Support the Councils statutory duties and response to external health threats and the Emergency Response Plan under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and the Social Care Act 2012, and any amendments. Provide strategic support to the Director of Public Health and Assistant Director of Public Health, to discharge the Councils statutory public health responsibilities, and deputise when required. Any other responsibilities and requirements that may arise according to the business requirements of the department and Council, as determined by the DPH. Strategic Leadership Be an effective, courageous, and responsible advocate for improving health and advise Wigan on its statutory public health obligations providing clear and evidence-based recommendations and advice. Work across the Council, and with a wide range of partners agencies and voluntary organisations, taking a lead role for strategic public health input into the development, implementation, and delivery of local strategies, developing inter-agency and interdisciplinary strategic plans and programmes as well as influencing partnership boards to deliver key outcomes for Wigan. Support the Health and Wellbeing Board, and associated fora, to drive action and effectively engage partners, to achieve greatest population impact whilst delivering its statutory duty to promote integration for the benefit of local communities. Be responsible for change and improvement, including the resolution of relevant operational issues, ensuring that quality improvement (and clinical governance) programmes are an integral component of the public health approach in Wigan. Partnership Working Develop strong relationships with a wide range of partners to influence policy and service delivery that has greatest impact on population health. Operate within a framework of partnerships, including Cabinet/Portfolio holders, Senior Management Team, Local NHS bodies, the VCFSE, UKHSA, OHID, Health and Wellbeing Board, Local Resilience Forum, NHS England, the public and the media, providing specialist public health expertise and supporting strategy delivery. Provide public health advice to relevant boards and committees including the Healthier Wigan Partnership and associated forums, influencing the development and delivery of equitable, citizen focussed and effective health and care services. Positively engage with residents working with colleagues to develop an engagement and communication approach that supports a culture of health and wellbeing. Contribute to regional and national policy development through the Faculty of Public Health, ADPH, the LGA, UKHSA and OHID. Commissioning Identify local priorities and support the planning and commissioning of interventions to improve and protect the health and wellbeing of residents and which are responsive to the needs and assets of the communities in Wigan specifically addressing demographic and geographic inequalities in health outcomes over time. Provide expert public health advice and leadership to support and inform an evidence-based approach for commissioning and developing high quality, equitable services across a range of organisations including voluntary, public, and private sector. This will include expertise in evaluation and development of appropriate Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Take responsibility for ensuring delivery of the public health mandated services, (statutory and non-statutory) within your portfolio, so that they achieve positive outcomes for local people and relevant outcome indicators. Ensure that service development and commissioning is based on the core principles of accessibility, affordability, appropriateness, effectiveness, equity, efficiency, quality, and need. People and Resource Management Deputise for the Assistant Director of Public and Director of Public Health, as required, and hold senior management responsibility within the integrated Public Health function and wider Adults Service Directorate. Manage public health staff and ensure that they can influence to deliver public health outcomes, providing line management, ensuring that the BeWigan behaviours are embedded. Participate in and ensure all staff members engage in My Time and My Time Extra conversations. Contribute to specialist public health workforce education and training and the broader development of public health skills and knowledge across the organisation and partnership. Be a delegated budget holder for all activities related to Wigan Council and monitor and contribute to the formulation of department/programme budgets and financial incentives, complying with the Councils standing orders and guidance. Manage Council resources (People, property, information, and finance) imaginatively and efficiently, delivering to agreed budget and income targets. Seek out opportunities to secure additional funding, where possible, for the delivery of evidenced based interventions that will address priorities. Professional Obligations Pursue a programme of CPD, in accordance with Faculty of Public Health requirements, or other recognised body, and undertake revalidation, audit or other measures required to remain on the GMC/GDC Specialist Register or the UK Public Health (Specialist) Register or other specialist register as appropriate. Practice in accordance with all relevant sections of the General Medical Councils Good Medical Practice (if medically qualified) and the Faculty of Public Healths Good Public Health Practice and carry out public health practice within the ethical framework of the health professions. Foster scientific integrity, freedom of scientific publications, and freedom of debate on health matters, and promote good governance and open government. Demonstrate competence to deliver excellent education supervision, teaching, and training. Contribute to medical professional leadership within the health system and to the training programme for Foundation Year Doctors/Specialty Registrars as appropriate, and to the training of practitioners and primary care professionals within the locality. Take part in relevant on call arrangements for the Council, emergency planning and health protection as appropriate.