Locum Consultant in Health Protection

Job description

Job responsibilities

This post is open to NHS medical / dental consultant scale (point commensurate with previous experience) / NHS Agendafor Change Band 9.

The post holder will work closely with key partners including Public Health Wales, Local Authority Environmental Health departments, the NHS and the Local Resilience Forum. It is essential that effective working relationships are maintained and developed with a wide range of other agencies including local water companies, Natural Resources Wales, the Food Standards Agency, Animal and Plant Health Agency, occupational health services, hospital medical staff, health service managers, primary care organisations, schools, nursing homes and voluntary agencies.

As the strategic and tactical lead for the Health Board, the post holder will have responsibility for the development, implementation and management of a coherent, joined up Regional Health Protection system that is able to maximise collective efforts across partners, be agile, adaptive and responsive to new and emergent issues. They will provide technical expertise and public health leadership to a number of fora and areas as they relate to the responsibilities of the role including (but not limited to) Infection Prevention & Control; National Immunisation Framework implementation; and the Local Resilience Forum. They will also be involved with senior managers in the Health Board, as well as the hospital nursing management teams, emergency planners, the infection prevention and control team, and the Lead microbiologist in responding to incidents and outbreaks.

Under the leadership and direction of the Executive Director of Public Health, you will:

contribute to the leadership and management of a co-ordinated approach to the health protection function and actions between the three local authorities, Public Health Wales and the Health Board.

Contribute to the development of integrated partnership strategies (including monitoring and surveillance reporting), working closely with all relevant partners;

provide health protection leadership and technical expertise within HDdUHB through working closely with senior leaders to support Health Board work (e.g. service planning and delivery, quality and governance);

provide public health leadership and support to health protection issues across the localities within the Hywel Dda area;

take responsibility for developing local policies, interagency and interdisciplinary plans and programmes;

develop partnerships and influence all agencies to ensure the widest possible contribution to the protection of the populations health and wellbeing throughout the Hywel Dda area;

provide expert public health protection advice and leadership to support and inform an evidence based approach within ethical frameworks for planning and developing high quality equitable services, across primary, secondary and social care, and across sectors including local authorities, voluntary organisations;

develop and utilise information and intelligence systems to underpin appropriate and timely responses to mitigate or eliminate threats to the publics health across disciplines and organisations, leading collation and interpretation of relevant data;

actively work to reduce inequalities in partnership with the Welsh Assembly Government, NHS Wales, government agencies, national bodies, local authorities and the voluntary sector; and,

ensure that relevant local experience and expertise supports or drives national developments and vice versa.

Responsibilities will include work in the following domains and areas:

Health Protection

Reducing Health Inequities

Health Care Quality and Improvement

Health Intelligence

Research and Development

Contribute population health advice to the Local Authorities of Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion

Contribute to strategic planning by and support delivery through partner organisations, including the Public Services Board(s)

Person Specification

Qualifications and Education

• GMC Registration with a license to practise
• Training in Health Protection
• Applicants must meet minimum CPD requirements (i.e. be up to date) in accordance with Faculty of Public Health requirements or other recognised body.
• MFPH by examination, by exemption or by assessment

• If an applicant is UK trained in Public Health, they must ALSO be a holder of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), or be within six months of award of CCT by date of interview If an applicant is non-UK trained, they will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT.
• Inclusion in the GMC Full and Specialist Register with a license to practice/GDC Specialist List (or be eligible for registration within six months of interview) or Inclusion in the UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialists (or be eligible for registration within six months of interview). If included in the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List in a specialty other than public health medicine/dental public health, candidates must have equivalent training and/or appropriate experience of public health practice.

Knowledge

• In depth understanding of the health and care system and the relationships with both local national government.
• In depth knowledge of key agencies involved in health protection.
• In depth knowledge of methods of developing clinical quality assurance, quality improvement, evaluations and evidence based public health practice.
• 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.
• High level of understanding of epidemiology and statistics, public health practice, health promotion, health economics and health care evaluation.
• Understanding of laboratory microbiology services, clinical infectious diseases services, clinical toxicology services, and principles of radiological protection
• Understanding of social and political environment.

Skills

• Strategic thinker with proven leadership skills and operational nous
• Able to demonstrate and motivate organisations to contribute to improving the public's health and wellbeing through mainstream activities and within resources.
• Ability to lead and manage the response successfully in unplanned and unforeseen circumstances.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines with competing demands and consistently deliver on time
• Ability to formulate long -term strategic plans, involving uncertainty, may impact across whole organisation.
• Analytical skills able to utilize both qualitative (including health economics) and quantitative information.
• Ability to design, develop, interpret and implement strategies and policies.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills (including dealing with the media).
• Effective interpersonal, motivational and influencing skills. Good presentational skills (oral and written).
• Sensible negotiator with practical expectation of what can be achieved.
• Substantially numerate, with highly developed analytical skills using qualitative and quantitative data.
• Computer literate with well developed skills in Microsoft Office suite, use of MS Teams etc.
• Ability to design, develop, interpret and implement policies.
• Ability to concentrate for long periods (e.g. analyses, media presentations).
• Resource management skills.

Research

• Experience and knowledge of critical appraisal of evidence so as to improve clinical outcomes

• Evidence of initiating, progressing and concluding research projects with publication
• Research degree

Teaching

• Evidence of organising programmes and teaching medical students and junior doctors
• Willingness to teach all grades of professional multidisciplinary staff

• Organisation of further teaching programmes in medical education
• Training and mentoring skills

Experience

• Delivery of successful change and project management programmes across organizational boundaries.
• Experience of using complex information to explain public health issues to a range of audiences.
• Experience of communicable disease control in a wide variety of settings including on call rota.
• Experience and demonstrable competency in dealing with environmental hazards / chemical incidents
• Experience of emergency planning
• Ability to undertake prophylaxis, diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases of public health importance
• Significant experience of working at senior level in a large complex organisation
• Experience of delivering across organisational boundaries
• Demonstrable proof of success in a similar role
• Demonstration of transforming services or significant service re-design and change

• Scientific publications, presentation of papers at forums such as conferences, seminars.
• Budget management skills.
• Media experience demonstrating delivery of effective health behaviour or health promotion messages.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Employer name

Hywel Dda University Health Board

Address

Hafan Derwen

Carmarthen

SA31 3BB

https://hduhb.nhs.wales/