APPENDIX 4 JOB DESCRIPTION DIRECTORATE: Families and Wellbeing SERVICE: Public Health Protection and Intelligence POST DETAILS Job Title: Health Protection Specialist Grade: 10 Location of Work: New Town House, Warrington Directly Responsible To: Consultant in Public Health Directly Responsible For: None Hours of Duty: Full time, 37.5 hours Primary Purpose and Scope of the Job: This role is to cover the capacity needed in public health to deliver the statutory health protection and assurance role for the local authority. Public health are required to contribute to emergency planning, commission infection control, assure health protection across partners in Warrington and contribute to the regional arrangements, respond to planning applications and collaborate with regard to planning for Healthy Warrington. The postholder will have senior level responsibility for the delivery of health protection at a population level and associated independent authority. The key responsibility of this role is to maintain an overview on health protection activities and coordinate the Health Protection Forum for Warrington and associated activities. The key outcomes for the post include national, regional and locally agreed targets that would include outcomes in the Public Health and NHS outcomes framework for health protection, also contributing to health improvement and wellbeing outcomes through wider partnership working. WORKING RELATIONSHIPS This post reports to the Consultant in Public Health and is part of the Health Protection and Intelligence Service. The postholder will work alongside the Knowledge and Intelligence team for health protection matters. Other key relationships are with members of the PH team and Neighbourhoods and Housing as per the attached department structures. External working relationships arise from the breadth of health protection work, including work with Warrington CCG, NHSE, PHE, local providers and regional initiatives. Specific health protection activities will require working with the private sector, voluntary sector, local communities, user groups, and individual members of the public. The Health Protection Forum reports to the Warrington Health and Wellbeing Board, with relationships across partners in Warrington, Councillors and lead members in WBC. KEY TASKS AND ACCOUNTABILITIES 1. The postholder must carry out the duties with full regard to the Council’s Corporate Plan, the Corporate Equality and Diversity Policy and Health and Safety Policy. 2. Coordinate the health protection forum for Warrington, manage the risk and assurance framework for the forum and coordinate production of the annual report to Health and Wellbeing Board 3. Liaise with NHSE, PHE and CCG on health protection matters including attending the Warrington specific committees for infection control, outbreaks, screening and immunisation, 4. Provide strategic leadership for reducing the impact of the social determinants of health (e.g. regeneration, transport, planning and urban design) in Warrington on behalf of the Director of Public Health and WBC. Contribute to the regional work on health place, healthy people, healthy communities. 5. Embed public health into other council departments including evidence reviews, priority setting, needs assessment , health impact assessment. Liaise with planners, developers and communities to contribute to health in planning activities, This may include health impact assessments where applicable and required 6. Contribute to the WBC emergency planning and partners resilience arrangements including exercise testing and reporting to the regional boards 7. Contribute to the performance management of WBC and NHS and the Public Health Directorate, specifically around targets, investments, developments, risks and performance relating to health protection. 8. Develop a quality and performance management framework for health protection areas to enable analysis and comparison of a wide range of complex data sources with appropriate benchmarks. This will include setting standards and agreeing targets with providers and responsibility for monitoring the relevant public health outcomes as outlined in the Councils scorecard and the public health outcomes framework. 9. Develop and maintain the risk register and assurance framework for health protection 10. Provide health protection support to the public health team, and contribute to the JSNA and PH annual reports. 11. Contribute to the general public health activities, including link with members of the Healthy Lives Healthy People team regarding community engagement for health protection 12. Contribute to the health protection elements in commissioning public health services such as infection control, children health and wellbeing, lifestyles, sexual health and substance misuse/alcohol. 13. Recruit, select and line-manage staff, managing their development through the use of the appraisal system, regular supervision and utilisation of other workforce development opportunities. 14. Ensure that HR policy is implemented effectively within the department dealing with as appropriate grievance and/or disciplinary issues 15. Take budgetary responsibility for defined projects non pay budget. Authorise budget spends and providing feedback to the Head of Service on a monthly basis highlighting any potential risks. Purchase any resources and incentives to support the project 16. To actively participate in continuous professional development and staff appraisal 17. To carry out all duties with due regard to confidentiality and data protection regulations. 18. The postholder is expected to comply with WBC Codes of conduct and accountability, health and safety requirements, and the safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and/or vulnerable adults. 19. To undertake such additional duties as are reasonably commensurate with the level of this post. REVIEW ARRANGEMENTS The details contained in this Job Description reflect the content of the job at the date it was prepared. However, it is inevitable that over time, the nature of the jobs may change. Existing duties may no longer be required and other duties may be gained without changing the general nature of the post or the level of responsibility entailed. Consequently, the Council will expect to revise this Job Description from time to time and will consult with the postholder at the appropriate time. Date Job Description prepared/revised: Version dated 10 June 2014 Prepared/revised by: Muna Abdel Aziz STRUCTURE Public Health 2014 DPH Dr R Robertson 1.0wte Personal Assistant E Reading 0.8wte Secretary C Pickering 1.0 wte Targeted Public Health Division Jan Holding 1.0wte Principal in Public Health Universal Public Health Division Dave Bradburn 1.0wte Principal in Public Health Health Protection & Intelligence Division Dr Muna Abdel Aziz 0.8 wte Consultant in Public Health (JH Senior Health Improvement Specialist J Knight 0.9wte Health Improvemen t Project coordinator J Spooner 1.0wte Resource Officer 0.68wte L Crean Project Support officer Z Rubotham 1.0wte Health Improvement specialist J Carter 1.0wte Health Improvement Practitioner H Norman 1.0wte Health Improvement Specialist A M Carr 1.0wte Health Improvemen t Practitioner A Muirhead 1.0 wte Health Improvement Project Support worker 1.0wte M Heritage Health Improveme nt specialist K Donnelly 0.91wte Health Improvement Specialist J Woolgar 1.0 wte Health Imp project coordinator Mental Health C Jenkins 0.6wte Business & Commissioning Officer M Waterson 1.0 wte Health Improvement practitioner prisons Lisa Scott Healthy Lives, Healthy People Team Health Protection Officer/ Specialist This Post - 1.0 wte Public Health Substance Misuse & Alcohol Division Cathy Fitzgerald 1.0wte Head of Service Neighbourhoods in Warrington Division Jane Critchley 1.0wte Head of Service See separate structure chart Strategic Head of Public Health Intelligence T Flute 1.0 wte Housing Standards & Options Division PH Senior Intelligence analyst J Bayliss 1.0wte PH Qualitative Researcher F Mann (0.84wte) PH Information Analyst C Boyle 1.0wte Dave Cowley 1.0wte Head of Service See separate structure chart PH Analyst Sara Aubrey 1.0 wte Alcohol Strategy Manager Simon Lyon 1 wte Public Health & Commissioning Librarian Caroline Timothy Substance Misuse Development Manager. Jacqueline Burns 1 wte Substance Misuse Support Officer Claire Yates 1 wte Policy Monitoring Performance Officer N Whitfield 1 wte
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