Consultant in Public Health Clinical Director
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust
Working as a triumvirate with the Operational Director (OD) and Associate Director of Nursing (ADoN), and based upon the trust's overall strategic vision and accountability framework, the Consultant in Public Health Clinical Director will drive the directorate strategy and oversee sound systems of governance and performance. The leadership of the directorate involves partnership working and shared responsibility between the OD, CD/PHC, and ADoN.
The Consultant in Public Health Clinical Director will lead the Directorate through the core HDFT KITE values: Kindness, Integrity, Teamwork & Equality.
This senior leader role will be responsible for providing the necessary strategic direction, clinical leadership, and vision, to enable the Directorate to meet its objectives as set out in the corporate strategy and will have a prime role in the provision and development of services.
The Community and Children's Directorate provides 0-19 services for approximately 9 local authority areas. This role will be key to ensuring the service is set up to ensure every contact is delivered in a way to maximize health improvement opportunities and reduce inequalities in health outcomes.
The post holder must be qualified as a public health specialist and be on the GMC, GDC or UKPHR specialist register.
Main Duties of the Job
To provide strategic direction for the development of clinical services and to enable the delivery of services within the Directorate and networking with Clinical Directors in other Directorates to deliver appropriate high-quality patient pathways across HDFT, in the most efficient patient-centered way.
To provide specialist public health, clinical governance, quality improvement, and patient safety advice to the Trust and Community and Children's Boards and staff for 0-19 Children's Services as well as the other adult and children's community services and acute hospital-based services within the Directorate.
Provide leadership on the public health implications of service planning and identify the appropriate public health support required locally and prioritize actions accordingly. They will act as the Public Health adviser to the HDFT Executives. To deliver an agreed business plan which incorporates appropriate quality and efficiency targets and supports the overarching strategy of the Directorate for 0-19 Services.
Lead the directorate to ensure all contacts in the 0-19 service maximize health improvement opportunities and reduce inequalities in health outcomes.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Degree in relevant subject or equivalent experience
* Relevant professional registration
* Masters degree in relevant subject or equivalent experience
Experience
* Minimum period of 2 years as a Senior Clinician
* Recent experience of working in a project management or leadership role.
* Significant local contribution to the modernisation of services and improvement.
* Awareness, knowledge, and understanding of the NHS and local modernisation agenda.
* Experience of line managing staff.
* Experience of developing and implementing strategy.
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.
Salary: £105,385 to £121,271 a year (pro rata)
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