Job description

Job responsibilities

The core purpose of the job is to lead the Public Health Intelligence service to produce actionable insight and intelligence that will inform decision making to improve population health and reduce inequity.

The post holder will ensure that population health intelligence actively shapes strategy, commissioning, and service transformation across Newham and North East London while reflecting local, regional and national priorities.

The post holder will lead specific projects that provide health intelligence to enable a full understanding of health and care needs in the area, address health inequalities, determine priorities for action and support commissioning decisions. They will actively disseminate findings from a wide range of analyses.

The post holder will lead on the design, methods, production and quality assurance of the intelligence function and embed a continuous quality improvement approach.

The role requires expert advice on the application of novel and innovative data science techniques to generating actionable insight from data including the development of more complex epidemiological analyses using advanced statistical techniques e.g. risk stratification, modelling, regression, segmentation, and forecasting.

Part of this role is to raise standards in the use and understanding of population health and champion the use of intelligence to help improve the quality of decision making. As a part of this, the post holder will improve access to and training for available tools and support the development of analytical confidence and capability across the wider workforce, including the use and interpretation of statistical and epidemiological information. They will be able to guide and advise others in their decisionmaking processes based on sound public health knowledge and evidence.

The post holder will ensure that the provision of high quality and often complex information from a range of sources is appropriately analysed and interpreted for use at operational and strategic levels to support and inform decision making. They provide expert statistical and epidemiological advice to the organisation and other strategic partnerships, including the Integrated Care System.

The post holder will undertake research to support public health intelligence objectives.

The post holder will report to the Public Health Consultant Lead for Public Health Intelligence and manage a team of Public Health Analysts.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated in a suitable postgraduate qualification such as health, public health, epidemiology, statistics, social and behavioural sciences, health data science or a similar numerate discipline.
• Demonstrates an on-going commitment to learning and skills development to maintain and develop their data science knowledge and skills.

Experience

Essential

• A strong understanding of the principles of public health, health inequalities and the wider determinants of health including public health approaches to assessing need, methods for conducting evaluation and determining health outcomes.
• Excellent knowledge of the use, analysis and interpretation of health and care datasets, including sources of data, their strengths and weaknesses, and appropriate methods for answering different public health questions.
• Excellent knowledge of health data science, population health analytics and the production of insight to inform decision making.
• Leadership of teams with a substantial health data science, health or care data analysis component demonstrating ability to raise standards and drive improvements. Experience of managing others or a small team of analysts in accordance with corporate policies, demonstrated by an understanding of management strategies.
• Routine provision of insight that successfully influenced decision-making leading to reduced inequity, improved quality, or directed substantial commissioning decisions.
• Working collaboratively with colleagues across a local health and care system to improve service quality and reduce inequity. Experience of representing an organisation in regional/national forums.
• Able to understand an issue and identify the appropriate insight, analysis and data required to inform relevant decision-making.

Skills

Essential

• Excellent project management, time management and prioritisation skills, able to oversee a team working simultaneously on several complex and challenging projects. Skilled in leading multiple complex projects concurrently with clear prioritisation. Planning, organising, and prioritising your workload and that of the team to deliver high-quality outputs to deadline.
• Excellent standard of oral and written communication skills, demonstrated by the ability to synthesise and present complex information, in a variety of formats to a variety of audiences. Ability to produce high-quality research outputs which are accurate and accessible to all stakeholders, including non-experts. Ability to influence others through effective communication. Communicate complex findings to non technical audiences using clear narratives, visualisations, and storytelling.
• Skilled at training and developing team members and wider stakeholders, including non-experts. Able to motivate and guide team members to work effectively with the ability to mentor, coach, and develop others.
• Excellent health data science / public health analysis skills with ability to draw insight from data and develop narrative to influence and inform decision making

Skills

Essential

• Excellent project management, time management and prioritisation skills, able to oversee a team working simultaneously on several complex and challenging projects. Skilled in leading multiple complex projects concurrently with clear prioritisation. Planning, organising, and prioritising your workload and that of the team to deliver high-quality outputs to deadline.
• Excellent standard of oral and written communication skills, demonstrated by the ability to synthesise and present complex information, in a variety of formats to a variety of audiences. Ability to produce high-quality research outputs which are accurate and accessible to all stakeholders, including non-experts. Ability to influence others through effective communication. Communicate complex findings to non technical audiences using clear narratives, visualisations, and storytelling.
• Skilled at training and developing team members and wider stakeholders, including non-experts. Able to motivate and guide team members to work effectively with the ability to mentor, coach, and develop others.
• Excellent health data science / public health analysis skills with ability to draw insight from data and develop narrative to influence and inform decision making

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

London Borough of Newham

Address

Building 1000, Newham Dockside

1000 Dockside Road

London

E16 2QU

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.newham.gov.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)