Deputy Director: Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service

Overview

The Deputy Director Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service (LKIS) will lead local knowledge and intelligence teams which provide regional population health intelligence and surveillance support to local health and care systems.

This is a post for a CPH/CPHM post employed by the DHSC based at various locations across the English regions. The post-holder is a health professional treating a population/community. The populations served are the regions of England.

Job Summary

The postholder will oversee arrangements to provide effective local-national engagement on population health. They will have a key role in working with national and regional stakeholders including Regional Directors of Public Health to provide system leadership in population health intelligence as a key component of population health management (PHM) and Integrated Care System and Boards.

They will support an integrated and user-centred approach to developing and brokering access to national population health analytics tools and support offers. This will require working with key local partners from public, private and academic sectors to build capacity and expertise in population health intelligence and analytics.

They will manage cross-cutting regional capacity and resources in analytics, knowledge mobilisation and analytical workforce development, identifying at-scale opportunities and sharing good practice to support local government and wider integrated health and care systems. This will include leadership of training and workforce development activities, including apprenticeships.

Job Responsibilities

The role will include working across DHSC, NHSE and UKHSA in support of local health and care systems working with Local Government and ICBs to deliver the DHSC goal for improving health and reducing health inequalities.

As Deputy Director Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service, your responsibilities will be:

• Management and Leadership: Be a positive role model and an effective member of the DHSC Places & Regions Senior Leadership team.
• Lead the function to deliver defined outputs to the required quality, within budget and on-time.
• Take measures to continually develop and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the function.
• Develop staff members to be the best they can be through robust internal communications, appropriate delegation, effective appraisal and mentoring, and visible leadership.
• Ensure that staff engagement, as measured by the annual staff survey, in the function is high and improvements are made, year on year.
• Develop innovative practice and service delivery models, both within the DHSC Places & Regions, OHID and beyond, involving other staff groups as appropriate.
• Work with colleagues across DHSC and ALBs to identify and ensure the maintenance of business-critical activities.
• Ensure the business and budgetary planning processes are fully in place and functioning effectively, reporting to agreed standards and timescales.
• Ensure succession planning within the function, responsible for the retention, recruitment, interviewing, selection, and induction of new staff in the function.
• Ensure effective governance of the function through a process of management team meetings and review of relevant governance issues including health and safety and risk.
• Act on behalf of the Regional Director with responsibility for Public Health Intelligence as required.

Person Specification

To apply for the role it is essential that you meet the qualification requirements:

• In line with legislation, inclusion in the GMC Full and Specialist Register with a license to practice/GDC Specialist List or inclusion in the UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialists at the point of application.
• If included in the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List in a specialty other than public health medicine/dental public health, candidates must have equivalent training and/or appropriate experience of public health practice.
• Any public health speciality registrar applicants who are currently on the UK public health training programme must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they are within 6 months of gaining entry to a register at the date of interview.
• If an applicant is UK trained in Public Health, they must also be a holder of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), or be within six months of award of CCT by date of interview.
• Applicants must meet minimum CPD requirements in accordance with Faculty of Public Health requirements or other recognised body.
• MFPH by examination, by exemption or by assessment, or equivalent.

Benefits

• Company pension
• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, Department of Health and Social Care run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.