Consultant in Public Health

This is an exciting opportunity to join the London Borough of Bromley Public Health Department as a Consultant in Public Health. This is a full-time post. We are a relatively small but close-knit team, and we work in an integrated way across the Council and the ICB. We have fostered good relationships with colleagues within the Council, the NHS and also across South East London.

Main duties of the job

• You will provide professional public health leadership and expertise to the Council, the ICB and other stakeholders in the following key areas of Public Health practice: Disease Prevention, Healthcare Public Health, NHS Health Checks Programme.
• You must have a GMC, GDC, or UKPHR Public Health specialist registration or be eligible for registration within six months of interview.
• You will be expected to have the skills and experience to lead across the full spectrum of public health and hold a work plan with specific lead areas of responsibility.
• You will carry important leadership responsibilities for key areas both within the Council and externally.
• You will need to be a strong team player and will have direct responsibility for a team of staff and be an authorised budget holder.
• You will have responsibility for development, implementation and delivery of national, regional and local policies, developing inter-agency and interdisciplinary strategic plans and programmes.

About us

We are forces family friendly and are part of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme (Bronze Award). We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners. We are committed to achieving equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and as a disability confident committed employer we encourage applications from people with disabilities. As part of this commitment, we will consider reasonable adjustment to support disability employment. We offer a generous package including competitive pay, career average pension scheme, flexible working practices and the Bromley employee benefits scheme; Cycle2Work, Salary Sacrifice Lease Car, Technology Scheme, GymFlex and a wide range of local and national discounts.

Job responsibilities

• The post is responsible for covering a portfolio of specialist public health functions: Leading on disease prevention (in particular the CVD prevention) and developing cross-agency strategic plans for this portfolio area.
• Provide strategic leadership for the NHS Health Checks programme, including commissioning and monitoring performance, managing budget and team.
• Leading on healthcare public health for the department, working with the SEL ICB colleagues.
• Ensuring the delivery of high quality disease surveillance, response and support systems.
• Deputise for the Director of Public Health as necessary.
• Support the London-wide and SE London approach to specific joint programmes of work where relevant to their expertise.
• Provide expert public health advice to Local Authority commissioners, including Public Health commissioners and undertake direct commissioning and procurement where relevant.
• Taking responsibility for the training obligations of the directorate by supervising and supporting Public Health and GP registrars on placement within the department in liaison with other senior colleagues.
• Support the Director of Public Health in the provision of expert public health advice to the Council, SEL ICB and partner agencies as required; presenting at meetings and attending the SEL ICB and Council meetings and committees as required.

Person Specification

• Skills and Abilities

• Strategic thinker with proven leadership skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills (including dealing with the media).
• Effective interpersonal, motivational and influencing skills.
• Ability to respond appropriately in unplanned and unforeseen circumstances.
• 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.
• Ability to design, develop, interpret and implement policies.
• Ability to concentrate for long periods (e.g.; analyses, media presentations).

• Staff management and training.
• Practical experience in facilitating change.
• Training and mentoring skills.
• Scientific publications, presentation of papers at conferences, seminars etc.

• MFPH by examination, by exemption or by assessment.
• Inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List/UK Voluntary 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 medicine practice.
• Applicants must meet minimum CPD requirements (i.e. be up to date) in accordance with Faculty of Public Health requirements or other recognised body.

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.