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Rate of Pay: To be agreed Hours: 37 hours per week Location: Oldbury Start Date: Early August 2024 Brief description: Sandwell Council are looking for an energetic and enthusiastic Interim Director of Public Health who is passionate about our vision of making Sandwell a healthier place to live and work. The Interim DPH role will be inside IR35 and the contract length for up to 12 Months, ideally commencing in post early August 2024. Reporting into the Executive Director of People with a dotted line to the Chief Executive, the Interim DPH will be responsible for determining the overall vision and objectives for public health in the Borough of Sandwell. They are accountable for delivering public health objectives and reporting annually on the outcomes and future work. Sandwell is one of the most deprived boroughs in the country with high degrees of health inequality. This role will be front and centre in addressing the challenges we have and helping in improving the lives of all our residents. This post requires specialist public health leadership and an appropriate span of responsibility to deliver health protection, health improvement and advice on health services. The post holder will also need to ensure that the impact on health is considered in the development and implementation of all policies. The postholder will prepare, manage and monitor the service's budget and will ensure effective leadership, motivation and development of staff. On a regular basis they will review resources, services and partnership arrangements in order to identify opportunities to improve service delivery. To be successful in this role the postholder will need previous high-level management experience in a local authority or health service role. They will need to have an acute understanding of the link between economic success and good health and build this into your strategy for tackling and prioritising public health issues. A good understanding and experience of working on the governments levelling up programme would be essential. The Interim DPH will be expected to formulate a clear, targeted long-term strategy that ensures health and social care, education, housing, jobs and economic policies and infrastructure, and communities, community assets and the third sector are shaped in ways which deliver maximum improvements in health and wellbeing. They will need excellent decision-making skills and the ability to lead others and inspire positive change. It is critical the postholder has high level communication and negotiation skills and they are able to use these to develop strong working relationships both internally and externally and externally. The Interim Director of Public Health is required to hold:- Inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register / GDC specialist list or UK Public Health Register Must meet minimum CPD requirements in accordance with the Faculty of Public Health requirements or other recognised body Public health specialty registrar applicants who are not yet on the GMC specialist register/GDC specialist register in dental public health/UKPHR must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they are within 6 months of gaining entry at the date of interview; all other applicants must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they have applied for inclusion on the GMC/GDC/UKPHR specialist registers The recruitment process will include an Advisory Appointment Committee (AAC).
You will be joining the Clinical & Emerging Infections Directorate working in the Acute Respiratory Infections unit of the Tuberculosis (TB) Acute Respiratory, Zoonoses, Emerging infection, and Travel health division (TARZET). The mission of TARZET is to protect the public from respiratory, imported, emerging, and novel infections through world-leading public health microbiology and virology, outbreak response, surveillance, research and interventions. We are a multidisciplinary team delivering surveillance, epidemiology, public health and clinical advice, microbiology and virology, incident and outbreak response, and advice to government. We work closely with NHS England and NHS Trusts, with international agencies and colleagues, and in a fully integrated way with multiple academic partners, with associated research opportunities. The post holder, based at the UKHSA Colindale site, will take a senior role in providing and developing national surveillance of acute respiratory infections, developing guidance and leading research studies. There are a number of areas of focus within the Unit including but not limited to: Avian and other zoonotic influenzas, Coronaviruses (other than SARS-CoV2), and Legionella Mycoplasma. The role will involve working in a small team to provide scientific support to the analysis, operation, and development of surveillance systems including development of methodology and directing changes to data capture systems in liaison with system architects and software developers. The role may involve day-to-day management of scientific, technical and information staff within their Section. Essential Criteria: It is important through your application and Statement of Suitability of 1250 words (max 1500) that you give evidence and examples of proven experience of each of the essential criteria (for full details of all essential criteria please refer to the attached job description, you must review this to produce your statement of suitability): Essential Educated to degree level in a relevant scientific subject or significant experience of working at a similar level in this field Higher degree in epidemiology/ public health/ microbiology or related discipline Training in research methods, infectious disease epidemiology, surveillance, prevention and/or public health Knowledge and work experience of communicable disease epidemiology Broad understanding of and experience of health care systems, public health and the communicable disease function in the UK Strong statistical analysis of large and complex datasets, including knowledge and experience with STATA and/or R Writing research protocols, grant applications and scientific reports Preparing and reviewing standard operating procedures Able to work effectively in a multi-disciplinary team and motivate and encourage team members Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues including problem solving, working to tight and often changing timescales Communicate ideas and methods clearly and succinctly An understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships Desirable PhD or equivalent research experience Substantial post-graduate experience Creating, validating and managing large databases and datasets Presenting scientific papers at national and international meetings and conferences and proven peer review publication record Experience of working within the NHS or other health-related sectors Managing and leading scientific and technical staff including working under pressure and to tight deadlines Liaise with a wide range of external collaborators including health service and academic professionals Maintain required levels of confidentiality