This role offers an exciting opportunity for a healthcare public health consultant with a keen interest in policy to drive population health transformation at one of the nation's largest clinical academic teaching hospitals.
As a Consultant in Public Health at GSTT, you will contribute to the development and implementation of innovative population health and health equity programmes. Working closely with senior clinicians, managers, and local public health teams, you will work on strategic initiatives aimed at creating equitable, preventative, and population health-based care models.
This highly technical role involves advancing existing services like the Children and Young People’s Health Partnership and developing new care models to address unmet needs. The role requires experience, leadership skills, and a collaborative approach to effect positive change in health outcomes.
- Work with other colleagues in the Population Health Hub to understand the healthcare public health needs of GSTT’s populations.
- Develop an evidence-based framework to prioritize clinical services, focusing on health promotion, early intervention, secondary prevention, and access to care for priority populations.
- Engage clinical leaders, managers, commissioners, and patient/public involvement groups to plan and support service transformation.
- Advocate for integrated working across primary and secondary care for GSTT’s patients and populations.
- Champion population health and equity practice and research at GSTT, including publications and collaborations with King’s Health Partners and King’s College London.
- Support the Head of the Population Health Hub (Consultant in Public Health) in providing population health clinical expertise to the DCMO, CMO and Trust leadership.
- Ensure a robust clinical-academic approach to evaluate the impact of population health-based approaches on outcomes and the sustainability of clinical services.
- Support other population health activities across the Trust and King’s Health Partners, such as data-led health improvement and health equity initiatives.
- Collaborate with partners in place-based partnerships, primary care, and local authorities to support a prevention-based approach across the system.
- Build population health-based clinical capacity and capability across the Trust.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
The salary for this post will be to the point of the consultant medical salary scale for England
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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Katherine Brittin Job title: Programme Director Email address:
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