Consultant in Population Health

This role requires an enthusiastic, population health professional who is passionate about embedding prevention in an acute trust through strategic working, training & education of healthcare staff, & system change. The postholder will be a qualified Public Health Consultant who is expected to lead the development & implementation of the innovative Faculty of Population Health.

The Faculty is a strategic & educational programme that aims to empower staff & patients to have conversations to improve their health. Based on the evidence-based principles of Making Every Contact Count (MECC) the Faculty embeds prevention within clinical services to support culture change amongst all patient-facing staff.

The postholder will support the Trust to develop this cultural change programme & embed a preventative approach by co-developing the Faculty with staff groups across all health units, overseeing bespoke training delivered by an external training provider, establishing a sustainable group-wide training the trainer programme, co-developing a tiered training programme & overseeing both internal & external evaluation of the programme.

The postholder will be responsible for chairing a Data Working Group that supports the roll-out of data & digital intelligence to inform pathway redesign, service planning & workforce optimisation.

They will also be expected to contribute to other population health priorities - smoking cessation programmes, digital & data projects, & research.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will line manage the Population Health programme manager and also line manage the business support manager.

The personal qualities required are to be an excellent communicator with a strong focus on education and training in healthcare population health settings, a strategic thinker and influencer, with a track record of excellent partnership working, delivering and improving population health outcomes and to be a confident whole system leader.

The post holder will be expected:

To provide population health leadership and strategic support to the Royal Free Group, with a particular focus on the Faculty of Population Health

To develop and oversee the implementation of the workplan for the Faculty of Population Health

To have oversight of the Tobacco Dependency Team and smoking cessation strategy

To deputise for the RFL Director of Population Health

To be an accredited Educational Supervisor for Public Health Registrars and provide project supervision to Fellows

To develop and support a community of practice for prevention in the trust

To monitor and implement the faculty evaluation framework and communication plan for the Faculty of Population Health, in collaboration with external partners.

To develop productive partnerships and build networks with senior leaders across the Royal Free group, with other acute trusts, and wider partners to learn best practice and implement them at the RFL.

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.

Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top.