Assistant Public Health Strategist

Job Description

Discover yourself in Lewisham where what you do makes a difference to our vibrant and culturally diverse communities!

We have a rich history of welcoming people from all over the world and are proud to be recognised as the UK’s first Borough of Sanctuary, for our work in championing the rights of refugees and migrants.

What’s the role?

The Assistant Public Health Strategist for Health Inequalities will support the development, implementation, and evaluation of projects within the Lewisham Health Inequalities and Health Equity Programme. This includes ongoing implementation of the opportunities for action from the Birmingham and Lewisham African Caribbean Health Inequalities Review (BLACHIR).

Working at both strategic and operational levels, they will coordinate and lead work streams and projects using and developing appropriate systems and processes to achieve agreed outcomes.

This role involves collaborating with colleagues to ensure public health is central to all relevant Council, ICS/NHS and partners commissioning activity and will ensure the development of public health capacity and capability within a range of organisations and settings.

What’s in it for you?

Excellent training and development opportunities, plus a range of benefits including:

• Generous holiday allowance
• Local Government Pension scheme
• Flexible working and family friendly policies
• Season ticket and bicycle loans
• A range of staff discounts including local subsidised gym memberships
• Supportive staff networks

What we’re looking for:

To support the achievement of the team’s, Local Authority’s and ICS’s objectives for addressing health inequalities and achieving health equity in Lewisham.

• Designing and execution of collaborative public health initiatives focused on health equity.
• To lead the planning, development, commissioning, implementation and assessment/evaluation of policies and programmes designed to achieve health equity, using a range of public health and health promotion competencies.
• To support the procurement and contract management of services, to ensure delivery of NHS healthcare and local authority commissioned health promotion programmes that are high quality, evidence-based and demonstrate value for money.
• Develop and distribute educational materials and resources for stakeholders.
• Collaborate with community organisations, primary care and healthcare providers (NHS Trusts) to achieve health equity.
• To manage projects including evaluations and surveys, supervise allocated staff and monitor associated budgets to achieve identified outputs and outcomes to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of health equity programs and initiatives.
• To produce and deliver regular written and verbal updates to a wide audience including GP Practices, Council meetings, Integrated Care Boards and community groups updating on service development, NICE guidance, best practice and health equity activities.
• To evaluate health inequalities and their impact on population groups by working with Health Intelligence, other sections of the councils and relevant health bodies, to collate, analyse and interpret appropriate data from a variety of sources and analyse data to inform assessment of needs, development of strategies, action plans, and evaluations.
• To work in collaboration with key stakeholders, including statutory and non-profit making organisations and local communities, with the implementation of local delivery plans, corporate objectives, local and national policies and public health initiatives.
• To develop and maintain working relationships with appropriate departments in the London Borough of Lewisham, Lewisham ICS, South East London ICS, NHS England, OHID, DHSC and other relevant networks.
• To promote and ensure a high profile and awareness is maintained of activity that promotes health equity through community events, local media, other council departments and healthcare partners.
• Stay current with research and best practices in health equity and addressing health inequalities.
• To provide relevant public health expertise to inform programmes and strategic development for partnership working and future commissioning
• To work in partnership with local stakeholders to identify training needs and develop and/or support the procurement of training to build capacity of staff in all settings, as appropriate.
• To support and/or lead multi-agency meetings related to public health areas, as may be required.
• To maintain a commitment to continuing professional development within the field of public health.
• Any other duties as appropriate to the needs of the department, commensurate with the grade of the post.
• This role description is intended as a basic guide to the responsibilities of the post and is not exhaustive and may be subject to review in consultation with the post holder

Location

The job is primarily based in Laurence House, Catford London, SE6 4U but we operate a hybrid approach where you will be required to work both in the office and from home on a regular basis.

Special conditions

• The job is subject to an enhanced DBS check

The recruitment process is anonymous and we don’t accept CV’s.

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Salary

£55,353- £57,495 per annum (P05)

N.B: All appointments will be offered at the minimum spinal column point (SCP) for the grade of the role. The only exception to this will be when matching current salary (up to the maximum of the scale), which is subject to evidential proof.

Diversity

Lewisham Council is a Disability Confident employer. We welcome and encourage job applications of all abilities. If you require any reasonable adjustments in the application or interview, please contact the lead contact on this advert. We will make reasonable adjustments to make sure our disabled applicants and those with health conditions are

supported throughout our recruitment process. We support the access to work scheme, further details are available at www.gov.uk/access-to-work/apply

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