Consultant in Public Health

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Consultant in Public Health to join the employing organisation Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT), also working across the Mid Yorkshire Teaching Hospitals Trust to support development across the Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield (CKW) health and care system. CHFT and MYTT work in partnership on identified priorities, recognising the overlap in the geography of the populations we serve.

This is a senior, system facing role providing specialist public health leadership and advice to acute trusts, with a particular focus on prevention, population health improvement and reducing health inequalities within secondary care services., The postholder will be employed by CHFT and will provide public health consultant input to Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust and Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust (MYTT), working closely with local authorities, the Integrated Care Board and wider partners across the CKW footprint.

This role offers the opportunity to work with a high degree of autonomy, influencing strategy and service design across complex organisational boundaries, and making a tangible impact on population health outcomes.

This is a rare opportunity to shape how public health expertise is embedded within acute hospital leadership, influencing strategy, service design and partnership working at place and system level. The successful postholder will work closely with senior clinical and executive leaders, local authorities and Integrated Care System partners, with the space and autonomy to make a real difference to how health inequalities and population health improvement are addressed within secondary care.

You will be joining a Trust that values collaborative leadership, openness and continuous improvement, and which supports senior leaders to work across organisational boundaries to deliver better outcomes for the populations we serve. For a Consultant in Public Health who wants to combine system influence with practical impact inside acute trusts, CHFT offers both the platform and the support to do so.

CHFT is an integrated acute and community Trust serving diverse communities across Calderdale and Kirklees, with strong partnerships across West Yorkshire. We are proud of our One Culture of Care -- caring for each other with the same compassion, kindness and respect that we show our patients -- and of the values that underpin how we work: we put people first, we go see, we work together to get results, and we do the must dos.

CHFT is recognised as a forward looking, digitally enabled Trust, with a strong track record of using data, innovation and system collaboration to improve quality, safety and outcomes. We are ambitious about the role that acute trusts play in prevention, population health and reducing inequalities, and this post sits at the heart of that agenda.