Head of Wider Determinants of Health

Employer: NHS North West London ICB

Employer type: NHS

Site: NHS North West London ICB

Town: London

Salary: £82,462 – £93,773 Inclusive of HCA per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 03/03/2025 23:59

Head of Wider Determinants of Health

NHS AfC: Band 8c

Job overview

The Head of Wider Determinants of Health plays a key strategic leadership role in developing and working with partners to deliver a strong vision and proactive approach across the system in identifying and reducing inequalities that are driven by wider determinants of health. This includes coordinating the approach to prevention and to the NHS’s input into the socioeconomic drivers of health outcomes.

The role will manage a range of workstreams and projects to create a coherent agenda to deliver the overall strategic direction. The role requires strong partnership and collaborative working across the system to co-design services with key stakeholders, including health, Local Authorities, public health, local residents, and the VCS.

The post holder will lead, coordinate and deliver the development and implementation of strategy in designated areas under their responsibility and bring stakeholders together to design and deliver change, adopting a methodical approach to improvement.

The role will lead work across the network of organisations in the North West London system and deal with senior stakeholders in all organisations. The post holder will support the design of solutions and work with stakeholders to implement solutions. The post holder will have responsibility to manage resources and budgets for projects on which they lead.

Main duties of the job

• Lead identified complex and strategic projects and programmes across NW London that are within the Wider Determinants of Health portfolio, working closely with a wide range of stakeholders including the Programme SRO(s), Assistant Director: Health Equity, Borough leads, health providers, LAs including public health, and the voluntary sector.
• Develop a strong understanding of the impact of the wider determinants of health on health outcomes in NW London and use this understanding to develop a programme of work that reduces inequalities in health outcomes.
• Provide strategic direction and oversight for the relevant aspects of the health equity dashboard, ensuring that there is clear connectivity between health and wider determinant outcome measures.
• Ensure robust strategic alignment with wider system plans.
• Provide strategic overview in the delivery of the NWL ICS Anchor Charter, ensuring that the agreed pledges are embedded and enacted across the system.
• Provide a strategic overview and direction for Health Equity Programme work on prevention, volunteering, and the voluntary sector, supporting work across the system in these areas.
• Support the Assistant Director in working with wider stakeholders including the NHSE Anchor Team, GLA, and other stakeholder partners.
• Establish a clear programme of work and set of deliverables.

Working for our organisation

NHS North West London Integrated Care Board (NHS NWL ICB) is a statutory body responsible for planning and allocating health and care resources to improve the lives of people in eight boroughs across North West London: Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, and Westminster.

The local population is large and diverse, with a wide range of health and care needs that are evolving all the time. Working with our partners including Councils, NHS provider Trusts, GPs, and voluntary and community organisations, we plan and allocate NHS resource to deliver a wide range of services including urgent and emergency care, mental health, primary care, elective hospital services, and community care.

Working for us, you can help ensure that our residents and patients have access to the right services when they need them and assist them in taking greater care of their own health to ensure they live longer, healthier lives.

To do this we will:

1. Improve outcomes in population health and healthcare.
2. Reduce inequalities in health outcomes, experience, and access.
3. Enhance productivity and better value for money.
4. Support broader social and economic development within our area.

We’re proud of our staff and the contribution they make and are committed to developing their knowledge and skills in a supportive, inclusive, and values-led organisation.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more information on the detailed job description and main responsibilities for this role, please read the job description and person specification document provided on this advert.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Educated to master’s level or equivalent or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level.

Knowledge, Training, and Experience

• Evidence of continuous professional development.
• Experience of delivering complex transformational projects, including demonstrating system-level critical thinking and effectively working with and through a diverse range of stakeholders to achieve the desired outcome.
• Experience of the health equity agenda, including working with communities to reduce inequalities.

Communication Skills

• Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive, and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
• Persuade board and senior managers of the respective merits of different options, innovation, and new market opportunities.
• Negotiate on difficult and very complex and detailed issues.

Analytical

• Problem-solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
• Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options.
• Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
• Strategic thinking – ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise.

Planning Skills

• Plans and organises a broad range of complex activities, formulating and adjusting plans to reflect changing circumstances.
• Inputs to strategic plans across NHS and within the specific teams.

Autonomy

• Manages team within the constraints of NHS strategic plan. Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary.
• Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues.

Financial and Physical Resources

• Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Name: June Farquharson
Job title: Associate Director – Health Equity Programme
Email address:
Telephone number: 07779 081598

Additional information

Name: Nicola Kay
Job title: Director of Population Health and Inequalities
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