You Will Bring

• Registration on the GMC Specialist Register, GDC Specialist List or UK Public Health Register.
• Significant senior leadership and operational management experience.
• Expertise in population health, prevention and tackling health inequalities.
• Experience of leading change and transformation programmes across organisational boundaries.
• Strong commercial and business development skills.
• Experience managing large budgets and delivering services against quality and performance targets.
• Outstanding influencing and partnership skills, with the ability to work effectively across health, care and local government systems.
• A commitment to innovation, evidence-based practice and improving outcomes for communities.

Why join us?

This role offers an opportunity rarely found in public health careers: the ability to combine strategic public health leadership with direct operational responsibility and organisational influence.

At Provide Community You Will

• Help shape the future direction of a growing, innovative health and care organisation.
• Influence population health outcomes across multiple systems and communities.
• Work in an employee-owned organisation where profits are reinvested into services rather than shareholders.
• Join an ambitious leadership team committed to innovation, quality and social value.
• Receive support for continuing professional development and revalidation.
• Have the opportunity to contribute to the development of the next generation of public health professionals.

Interested?

If you are an experienced public health leader who wants to combine operational delivery with strategic influence and make a lasting difference to communities, we would love to hear from you.

Join Provide Community and help us create healthier communities and better futures.

For an informal chat with the CEO Health (CPH) Professor Lucy Wightman or to find out more, please email lucy.wightman1@nhs.net.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Delivery of successful change management programmes across organisational boundaries
• Experience of using complex information to explain public health issues to a range of audiences
• In depth understanding of the health and care system and ability to successfully influence outcomes both within and outside direct control
• In depth knowledge of methods of developing clinical quality assurance, quality improvement, evaluations and evidence based public health practice
• Strong and demonstrable understanding of interfaces between health, social care and key partners (dealing with wider determinants of health)
• Understanding of the public sector duty and the inequality duty and their application to public health practice

Desirable criteria

• Media experience demonstrating delivery of effective health behaviour or health promotion messages

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• 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.
• Public health specialty registrar applicants who are not yet on the GMC Specialist Register, UKPHR register or GDC Specialist List in dental public health must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they are within 6 months of gaining entry to a register at the date of interview
• MFPH by examination, by exemption or by assessment, or equivalent
• 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. If an applicant is non-UK trained, they will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT

Desirable criteria

• Masters in Public Health or equivalent

Further Information

How will we contact you?

All correspondence for this post will be by email or text messaging. Please register for text messages on your TRAC account. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly to ensure that email filters are set to allow our mails. As we often have many applicants for jobs at Provide, we regret that we will only be able to contact those external applicants who are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion. Internal candidates who are unsuccessful can seek feedback from the recruiting manager. If you wish to contact the Recruitment Team, please do this via provide.recruitment1@nhs.net If you wish to contact the Recruiting Manager about the vacancy/role or for feedback after interview, their details are provided within the advert.

Checking progress on your application?

To check progress on your application, please log into your TRAC account. We aim to keep you updated on the status of your application as soon as we can.

Closing Date

Provide reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time or bring forward the closing date should it have an overwhelming response. We therefore encourage an early application to ensure consideration for this post.

Professional UK clinical registration required for the role?

If we require you to hold UK professional clinical registration to undertake a role we appoint you to, Provide will pay for your registration during the first year of your employment.

COVID-19 Vaccination

Provide CIC continues to encourage all colleagues to ensure they have been double vaccinated and received a booster vaccination. We recognise taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, service users, customers, fellow colleagues, and their families.

Anti Fraud

Our staff have been trained in 'Anti-Fraud' and will use technology to examine identity/immigration documents.

Disability

If you have a disability and need assistance or more time to complete your application or attending interview, please contact a member of the HR Services Team on 0300 3030 2661 or provide.recruitment1@nhs.net.

Work Trials

Please check with your local Job Centre Plus to see if you are eligible for a Work Trial. If you are interested in trying this job first, please contact the HR Services team and we can help you make the arrangements with the Job Centre and the Recruiting Manager.

We are committed to equal opportunities, flexible working practices and the National Living Wage.

Successful Applicant

You will be required to bring all your documentation to your interview to show the recruiting manager and again at your pre-employment appointment with the Recruitment Co-Ordinators.

The information that you provide will be treated confidentially. If you fail to provide all of the information, Provide may not be able to fulfil our contractual obligations to you or may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations.