Public Health Lead - Bootle, United Kingdom - Sefton Council

Sefton Council

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Bootle, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Description

Public Health responsibilities and functions are provided by a specialist multidisciplinary team working across the Borough of Sefton. The team works in partnership with other local authority services, NHS and voluntary, community and faith sector services.

Sefton Public Health Service delivers on a wide range of statutory duties and responsibilities to protect and improve population health.

Services include identifying health needs of the population, advising on and commissioning health services to meet those needs, providing evidence on the effectiveness of treatments/interventions and highlighting the needs of the more socially excluded and vulnerable, as well as health protection and broader healthcare public health services which are also key component parts of our delivery.

The post will provide a broad range of health protection project management and support with a specific focus on reducing the harms associated with smoking and the use of tobacco products.

The post holder will take a lead role in identifying local need and commissioning specialist services in line with that need and an emerging smokefree generation agenda.

The post holder will lead on co-ordinating efforts to increase the focus of smokefree Sefton developing collaborations with NHS and other key health partners to increase engagement with priority groups including pregnant women, people using alcohol and other drugs, homeless and rough sleeper populations and people living with mental ill health.

The post holder will oversee the commissioning, contract performance reviews and development of local specialist smoking cessation and tobacco treatment services as well as a range of tobacco harm reduction interventions, including but not limited to, swap to stop programmes.

The post holder will work closely with NHS smokefree leads and represent the Local Authority public health response at Cheshire and Mersey, Northwest and National Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) forums and meetings.

In addition to core responsibilities the post holder will contribute to the public health duties within the local authority and will have a good understanding of local population needs for Sefton.

The post holder will, when required, be responsible for advising and briefing council officers and Elected Members on all matters of public health, commissioning and service performance.

Key areas and responsibilities will include:
MAIN DUTIES 1.

Surveillance and assessment of the populations health and well-being To source, interpret and utilise the available evidence base, including in depth analysis and interpretation of health data and effectiveness appraisal of diverse public health interventions, in the context of conflicting views between professionals and agencies.

Contribute specialist topic information to annual and public health reports, strategic documents and other reports as required. Prepare and process communications (e.g. press releases) with the media within overall guidelines set by the LA.

Identify public health needs using various methodologies e.g.

health needs assessment, equality impact needs assessments (EINAs), Health Impact Assessment (HIA) and develop appropriate health outcome measures when planning and commissioning projects or programmes to improve health and reduce health inequalities.

Assessing the evidence of effectiveness of health and healthcare interventions, programmes and services Analyse and interpret national and local policy, data and national evidence of effectiveness (from a variety of highly complex sources), to develop, make recommendations and evaluate public health related projects or programmes some of which may be contentious.

Support the development of a culture of continuous evaluation by improving the efficiency and effectiveness of investment; identifying the need for and commission/undertake/contribute to evaluations, research and audits to assess the effectiveness of interventions, programmes and services.

Keep up to date with the evidence base of effective public health practice in particular relating to specific public health topic areas, and public health competencies (through literature searches, critical appraisal of literature, conferences, journal clubs, professional body communications, etc.) 3.

Policy and strategy development and implementation Develop and co-ordinate multi-agency and partnership collaborative work to engage and influence others, to identify and report on local need and to improve health and wellbeing.

Take responsibility for strategic planning; leading the development, co-ordination and implementation of multi-agency strategy and action plans.

Effectively manage a delegated budget for specific commissioned services and/or projects, with supervision from senior public health staff. Write bids to secure funding for PH and partnership projects. Commission services, as required, within allocated resources; ensuring that contracts are successfully negotiate