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East of Scotland Job description Job title Consultant in Public Health Medicine or Consultant in Public Health Region East of Scotland Employer NHS Forth Valley Accountable to Director of Public Health Terms and NHS (Scotland) Hospital Medical and Dental Staff and Conditions Doctors in Public Health and the Community Health Service or NHS (Scotland) Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions Hours Full-time, part-time, job-share Grade NHS Scotland Consultant (£84,984 to £112,925 per annum - pro-rata, if applicable); or Agenda for Change Band 8D (£85,811 to £89,732 per annum – pro-rata if applicable) Region Although you will be employed by NHS Forth Valley, you will be expected to provide services to all Health Boards within the East of Scotland. The Health Boards within the East of Scotland are: NHS Borders; NHS Fife; NHS Forth Valley; NHS Lothian. Job Summary In general, the postholder will be expected to be able to cope with multiple and changing demands, and to meet tight deadlines. A high level of intellectual rigour, negotiation and motivation skills and flexibility are required to deal with complex public health issues, to advise and make recommendations regarding services and patient care. A high level of tact and diplomacy is required and an ability to understand other cultures to enable effective working across organisational boundaries and influencing without authority. The details of the post should be set out below, but it is expected that the postholder: • will have responsibility for development, implementation and delivery of national, regional and local policies, developing inter-agency and interdisciplinary strategic plans and programmes, with delegated Board or organisational authority to deliver key public health targets • will provide expert public health advice and leadership to support and inform an evidence-based approach within ethical frameworks for commissioning and developing high quality equitable services, across primary, secondary and social care, and across sectors including local authorities, voluntary organisations, etc • will develop and utilise information and intelligence systems to underpin public health action across disciplines and organisations, leading collation and interpretation of relevant data • will either manage a team of staff or department and/or design and deliver a training programme as a major part of the job e.g. training Specialist Registrars in Public Health Medicine and Public Health Specialist Trainees • will either be responsible for the day to day management of a group of staff, and/or be responsible for the allocation/placement and supervision of qualified staff or trainees, and/or be responsible for teaching/delivery of core training on a range of subjects or for specialist training, and/or be responsible as a line manager for a single function • will either be an authorised signatory, budget or delegated budget holder (budget/department/service), and/or monitor or contribute to the formulation of department/service budgets and financial initiatives and/or be a budget holder for a department service • will either lead on public health research, and/or commission research audits/projects, and/or undertake research or audit NHS Scotland NHS Scotland consists of 14 regional NHS Boards which are responsible for the protection and the improvement of their population’s health and for the delivery of frontline healthcare services, 7 Special NHS Boards, and 1 public health body who support the regional NHS Boards by providing a range of important specialist and national services. Details of each of NHS Scotland’s organisations can be accessed on the Scotland’s Health on the Web website. Please note your will be employed directly by one of NHS Scotland’s Health Boards. Your contract of employment will be between yourself and the Health Board, not ‘NHS Scotland’. Management arrangements The postholder will be professionally accountable to the employing authority and managerially accountable to the employing authority via their line manager, usually the Director of Public Health or equivalent. Professional appraisal will be required. An initial job plan will be agreed with the successful candidate prior to that individual taking up the post based on the draft job plan attached. This job plan will be reviewed as part of the annual job planning process. The postholder: • will manage staff (including trainees) • will manage budgets • will be expected to take part in on call arrangements for communicable disease control / health protection as appropriate depending on local arrangements • will be expected to deputise for the Director / Head of Department as required • will manage Specialist Registrars in Public Health Medicine and Public Health Specialist Trainees Professional obligations The postholder will be expected to: • participate in the Health Board’s staff appraisal scheme and departmental audit, and ensure appraisal and development of any staff for which s/he is responsible • contribute actively to the training programme for Foundation Year Doctors / SHOs / Specialist Registrars in Public Health Medicine and Public Health Specialist Trainees as appropriate, and to the training of practitioners and primary care professionals within the locality. • pursue a programme of CPD / CME, 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 Register or other specialist register as appropriate. Key tasks The job description will be subject to review in consultation with the postholder and in the light of the needs of the employing organisation and the development of the speciality of public health and any wider developments in the field of public health. To be able to synthesise data into information about the surveillance or assessment of a population’s health and wellbeing from multiple sources that can be communicated clearly and inform action planning to improve population health outcomes. To be able to use a range of resources to generate and communicate appropriately evidenced and informed recommendations for improving population health across operational and strategic health and care settings. To be able to influence and contribute to the development of policy as well as lead the development and implementation of a strategy. To use a range of effective strategic leadership, organisational and management skills, in a variety of complex public health situations and contexts, dealing effectively with uncertainty and the unexpected to achieve public health goals. To influence and act on the broad determinants and behaviours influencing health at a system, community and individual level. To identify, assess and communicate risks associated with hazards relevant to health protection, and to lead and co-ordinate the appropriate public health response. To be able to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, safety, reliability, responsiveness and equity of health and care services through applying insights from multiple sources including formal research, health surveillance, needs analysis, service monitoring and evaluation. To add an academic perspective to all public health work undertaken. Specifically to be able to critically appraise evidence to inform policy and practice, identify evidence gaps with strategies to address these gaps, undertake research activities of a standard that is publishable in peer-reviewed journals, and demonstrate competence in teaching and learning across all areas of public health practice. To be able to shape, pursue actively and evaluate your own personal and professional development, using insight into your own behaviours and attitudes and their impact to modify behaviour and to practise within the framework of the GMC's Good Medical Practice (as used for appraisal and revalidation for consultants in public health) and the UKPHR’s Code of Conduct. To be able to demonstrate the consistent use of sound judgment to select from a range of advanced public health expertise and skills, and to use them effectively, working at senior organisational levels, to deliver improved population health in complex and unpredictable environments. Medically qualified members of the public health team are expected to play certain roles in medical leadership, in relationships with the medical profession and in bringing a medical perspective to public health advice. A medically qualified holder of this post would be expected to share these roles with other medically qualified members of the team. Indicative Job plan Job title Consultant in Public Health Medicine Principal place of work To be agreed with NHS Forth Valley Contract tenure Permanent Out-of-hours 1 in 7 with prospective cover (expected) Managerially responsible to Director of Public Health Day Time Type of work DCC SPA OOH Hours 0830-1230 Health improvement / 8 Monday 2 Healthcare PH 1300-1700 0830-1230 8 Tuesday Health protection 1 1 1300-1700 0830-1230 Wednesday Health protection 2 0.25 8 1300-1700 0830-1230 Health protection Thursday 1 1 8 Core SPA - (Meetings, CPD, appraisal, 1300-1700 training, teaching, R&D) 0830-1230 Health improvement / Friday 1.5 0.5 8 Healthcare PH 1300-1700 Out of Hours (OOH): 1700-0830 or 0900-0900 respectively at weekends Totals 7.5 2.5 40 The Job Plan is negotiable and will be agreed between the successful applicant, and the Director. NHS Boards in the East of Scotland initially allocate all consultants 10 PAs made up of Direct Clinical
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