Public Health Consultant

Integrated Care System; London; On-site; GBP 99,000 - 114,000; Full time

Job summary

An Integrated Care System seeks a Public Health Consultant to drive population health transformation at a leading NHS Trust. The role involves developing innovative health programs, leading teams, and collaborating with stakeholders to improve health outcomes and equity. Candidates should have a medical degree, relevant public health experience, and strong leadership skills. Competitive salary offered.

Qualifications

• Included in the GMC Full and Specialist Register with a license to practice.
• Experience leading a clinical and non-clinical team.
• Strong understanding of health policy, prevention, and public health.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement population health programs.
• Manage clinical teams and provide public health leadership.
• Advocate for health equity and influence policy decisions.

Skills

Leadership

Public Health Knowledge

Communication

Education

MBBS or Equivalent

Higher Degree

Job description

Go back Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Public Health Consultant

The closing date is 03 August 2025

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.

Main duties of the job

• 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.

About us

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.

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Job responsibilities

Clinical and Team Leadership:

Provide clinical and public heath knowledge and skills on behalf the PH Hub, supported by the Head of the Population Health Hub (Consultant in Public Health), contributing to the Hub delivering its strategic aims towards improving health and reducing inequalities for our patients and populations, in line with the Trusts overall vision for Population Health and Health Equity.

Supporting Clinical Groups and other key programmes, helping them to adopt a population health management approach to designing and delivering services, providing clinical leadership and public health expertise to enable this.

Working closely with the Population Health Management Hub leadership team to secure and integrate multiple data sources to develop a robust population health analysis platform, and utilise insights to inform provision of clinical services and clinical practice.

Line management of any Clinical Fellows or Fast Stream placements and, if already an Educational Supervisor (ES), public health trainees (whereby, this would involve specific responsibilities for: Setting and monitoring learning objectives and a learning plan, leave and cover arrangements; Ensuring junior doctors hours are compliant in line with EWTD and New Deal; Conduct annual appraisals, and performance management, in line with Trust policies and procedures).

Service Improvement and Transformation:

To ensure the use of the best available evidence base to support the assessment of local health needs, health inequalities, and health impact assessment, in order to inform the development of evidence-based clinical service models or interventions.

• Identify and prioritise areas for service redesign based on data-driven insights to address unmet needs and reduce health inequities.
• Apply an evidence based improvement approach to testing new ideas
• Support the implementation of innovative care models and preventive interventions across clinical services.
• Engage and collaborate with clinical teams to facilitate the adoption of new practices and ensure effective service delivery.

Data Integration and Analysis:

Use relevant clinical data to inform a comprehensive population-based picture of clinical need and inequity for Clinical Groups and key programmes.

Utilise data to cohort patients, predict health risks, and identify opportunities for earlier intervention and prevention.

Advise and inform analyses and evidence reviews for intervention design and impact evaluation e.g. health improvement and health inequalities reductions.

Help the Hub realise the opportunities from Epic to improve the delivery of population health-based care across the Trust.

Research, Evaluation & Education, Training & Development:

Contribute to rigorous evaluation of health services interventions supported by the Hub, where appropriate in collaboration with researchers, to demonstrate impact and inform future development and practices.

Collaborate with research initiatives relating to the Hub, and support the delivery of population health research within the Trust, ensuring that clinical-academic colleagues are delivering research outputs, resultant from the work of the programme.

Facilitate collaboration with academic partners to enhance the Trust's role in population health research and innovation.

To monitor relevant outcome measures for the programme, which can evidence the future case for funding.

To support the development of public health capacity through contributing to education, training and development of the PH Hub Team, Trust and KHP.

Strategy and Sustainability:

• Support the Head of the Population Health Hub (Consultant in Public Health), to develop the Trusts long-term vision for population health and health equity, and deliver strategically aligned work, across the Trust to deliver towards these ambitions.
• Advocate for population health management as a core component of the Trusts strategic framework, to enable the delivery of the Trusts commitments.
• Represent the programme/hub, both internally and externally, and develop relationships and collaborations with relevant local and national bodies, including other agencies and voluntary organisations.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, including Integrated Care Systems, Kings Health Partners, Local Care Partnerships and Local Authorities.

Advocacy and Engagement:

• Serve as a visible and persuasive advocate for population health and health equity within the Trust and the wider healthcare community.
• Support the Head of the Population Health Hub (Consultant in Public Health), to ensure delivery of statutory requirements and action that the Trust must take on health inequalities.
• Communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders, including clinical teams, patients, and external partners.
• Ensure the PH Hubs activities align with the Trusts values and strategic priorities.
• Create strong links with primary care / place-based data leads, and other relevant partnerships and programmes both for integrated data and analyses to understand health needs and inequalities, and for determining impact of interventions.

Personal Development

• Maintain an in-depth understanding of local and national public health, population health and health inequalities policy, strategy and healthcare delivery models.
• Regular horizon scanning and review of the evidence base around best practices and ways of working, within and beyond the health and care sector
• Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of a range of skills and insights, including change management, service improvement techniques, patient and public involvement, the latest approaches to population health management and improvement

Person Specification

Knowledge/Qualifications

• MBBS or Equivalent
• Inclusion in the GMC Full and Specialist Register with a license to practice/GDC SpecialiInclusion in the UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialists
• 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
• Higher Degree

Previous Experience

• Public Health / Public Health Medicine, with expertise in healthcare public health and policy
• Experience leading a clinical and non-clinical team
• Experience leading a clinical and non-clinical team
• Experience of evaluating innovative healthcare initiatives
• Experience of leading population health improvement within a healthcare provider organisation
• Experience engaging commissioners on investment decisions
• Experience of teaching and training undergraduate, postgraduates and junior medical staff
• Demonstrable record of delivering research publications and research collaborations

Skills

• Understanding of health policy relevant to prevention, health equity and population/public health, and its applicability to healthcare provider organisation
• High level of understanding of epidemiology and statistics, public health practice, health promotion, health economics and health care evaluation (inc. qualitative information
• In-depth understanding of health and care system and relationships with both local & national government
• Knowledge of methods of developing clinical quality assurance, quality improvement and evidence based clinical and/or public health practice
• Strong and demonstrable understanding of interfaces between health, social care and key partners (dealing with wider determinants of health)
• Able to influence senior members including directors and CEOs

Personal Qualities

• Strong commitment to public health/ population health principles
• Able to prioritise work, and work well against a background of change and uncertainty
• Adaptable to situations, able to handle people of all capabilities and attitudes
• Commitment to work within a political system irrespective of personal political affiliations

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.

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

£99,808 to £113,803 a yearp.a. inc HCA (pro rata