Consultant in Public Health

NHS Greater Manchester is seeking to employ an enthusiastic, knowledgeable and experienced Consultant in Public Health to join our organisation at a time of real change and opportunity.

Under the direct line management of the Chief Medical Officer, and working alongside skilled and high-calibre peers, the postholder will lead a wide-ranging portfolio with a particular focus on healthcare public health, health protection, and meeting the statutory public health responsibilities of the organisation.

The postholder will also work alongside a wide-range of external stakeholders including the GM Public Health Network, Local Authorities and the GM Combined Authority to influence and participate in system-wide health improvement and prevention action to improve health outcomes and reduce health inequalities in Greater Manchester.

The post holder will be embedded in the Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership and will work effectively with other GM system partners across its 10 localities, Place based partnerships and providercollaboratives.

As a Consultant in Public Health at NHS Greater Manchester you will have the opportunity to work across the GM system to improve the lives of our local population, by providing specialist public health leadership, advice, and action to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for local people.

You will oversee, coordinate and deliver high quality professional public health input, support and advice to the Greater Manchester Integrated Care System, with a high degree of autonomy, to drive improvements in outcomes and a reduction in health inequalities across the population.

The role will provide specialist leadership in relation to Health Protection and Healthcare Public Health at NHS GM.

NHS GM plans and delivers joined-up services to improve the health and wellbeing of the population residing in Greater Manchester. Its's goals include improving population health and healthcare outcomes, tackling inequalities, enhancing productivity and value for money, and supporting broader social and economic development.

This will be achieved at various levels, including neighbourhood, place, combinations of places, and the Greater Manchester system.

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:

• 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 populations health
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• Leading specific pan-GM programmes of work that are aimed at improving health outcomes and reducing health inequalities
• Providing strong professional and…