UK Health Security Agency
Head of Clinical and Health Protection Quality & Governance
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This role is being offered as hybrid working based at any of our Core Locations
This role is being offered as hybrid working based at any of our Core HQs. We offer great flexible working opportunities at UKHSA and operate using a hybrid working model where business needs allow. This provides us with greater flexibility about how and where we work, to get the best from our workforce. As a hybrid worker, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of your contractual working hours (approximately 3 days a week pro rata, (averaged over a month) working at one of UKHSA's core HQs (Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, and London). Our core HQ offices are modern and newly refurbished with excellent city centre transport links and benefit from co-location with other government departments such as the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC).
Job Summary
The Clinical Governance, Training, Workforce and Revalidation team, together with the team reporting through the Deputy Director for Health Protection Workforce, Infection Prevention and Control, Medicines Governance and Safeguarding (HIMS), ensure the organisation is operating within a robust clinical governance and quality improvement framework and the medical /public health professional workforce is working to appropriate professional standards.
This is a senior leadership role providing expert clinical and public health governance advice and leadership across UKHSA. The post holder will be responsible for the development, coordination, implementation and continuous improvement of UKHSA's Clinical and Public Health Quality Management Framework and associated governance arrangements.
This role is also open to Secondments
Job Description
The post holder will provide strategic leadership for quality improvement, clinical governance, organisational learning and patient and public safety across UKHSA, whilst supporting the Clinical Quality Oversight Committee (CQOC) and associated governance structures in providing assurance regarding the quality, effectiveness and safety of Clinical and Public Health services.
Operating within UKHSA's delegated quality management model, the post holder will coordinate cross-organisational quality intelligence, facilitate second-line assurance activities, support organisational preparedness for external inspection and review, and provide expert leadership to strengthen quality management arrangements across the Agency.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- The National Health Service (Appointment of Consultants) Regulations 1996 (legislation.gov.uk) 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
- 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
- Any public health speciality registrar applicants who are currently on the UK public health training programme and not yet on either the GMC, GDC or UKPHR specialist register must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they are within 6 months of gaining entry to a register at the date of interview. Applicants going through the portfolio registration routes (GMC or UKPHR) are not eligible to be shortlisted for interview until they are included on the register. The six-month rule does not apply to these portfolio route applicants
- 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
- Applicants must meet minimum CPD requirements (i.e. be up to date) in accordance with Faculty of Public Health requirements or other recognised body
- MFPH by examination, by exemption or by assessment, or equivalent
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Desirable criteria
- Master’s in public health or equivalent
Knowledge And Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant strategic experience of leadership for public health
- Staff management and training
- Practical experience in facilitating change
- Experience of communicable disease control in a wide variety of settings including out of hours on call
- Experience and demonstrable competency in dealing with environmental hazards/chemical incidents
- Delivery of successful change management programmes across organizational boundaries
- Strategic thinker with proven leadership skills and operational nous
- In depth understanding of the health and care system and the relationships with both local national government
- 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
Skills, capabilities & behaviours
Essential Criteria
- Able to influence senior members including directors and CEOs
- Able to both lead teams and to able to contribute effectively in teams led by junior colleagues
- Commitment to work within a political system irrespective of personal political affiliations
- Adaptable to situations, can handle people of all capabilities and attitudes
- Commitment to team-working, and respect and consideration for the skills of others
- Self-motivated, pro-active, and innovative
- High standards of professional probity
- Able to demonstrate and motivate organisations to contribute to improving the public’s health and wellbeing through mainstream activities and within resources
- Ability to lead and manage the response successfully in unplanned and unforeseen circumstances
- Analytical skills able to utilize both qualitative (including health economics) and quantitative information
- Ability to design, develop, interpret and implement strategies and policies
- Substantially numerate, with highly developed analytical skills using qualitative and quantitative data
- Resource and staff management skills
- Project Management skills
Desirable criteria
- Training and mentoring skills
- Scientific publications, presentation of papers at conferences, seminars etc
Equality and diversity
Essential Criteria
- An understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships, both in terms of day-to-day working practices, and in relation to management systems
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
Salary Information
If you are successful at interview, and are moving from another government department, NHS, or Local Authority, the relevant starting salary principles for level transfers or promotions will apply. Otherwise, roles are offered at the pay scale minimum for the grade, but in exceptional circumstances there may be flexibility if you are able to demonstrate you are already in receipt of an existing, higher salary. Pay increases are through the relevant annual pay award for the role and terms.
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AfC Band 8d
- £94,356 - £108,814 (plus 20% basic salary to a maximum £8,746) Inner London
- £94,356 - £108,814 (plus 15% basic salary to a maximum of £6,137) Outer London
- £94,356 - £108,814 National
Consultant
- £113,565 - £150,569 (plus £2,162 London Weighting, Inner and Outer London)
- £113,565 - £150,569 National
The successful candidate will be appointed to the point of the Consultant salary scale appropriate to their years of seniority or if from a background other than medicine to NHS Agenda for Change Band 8d.
Inclusion in the GMC Full and Specialist Register with a license to practice (or be eligible for registration within six months of interview)
If included in the GMC Specialist Register/ in a specialty other than public health medicine, candidates must have equivalent training and/or appropriate experience of public health practice
Public Health Specialty Registrar applicants who are not yet on the GMC Specialist Register must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they are within 6 months of gaining entry at the date of interview; all other applicants must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they have applied for inclusion in the GMC.
Inclusion in the UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialists (or eligibility within six months of interview).
Non‑medical applicants who are not yet fully registered with the UKPHR must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they are within six months of gaining specialist registration at the date of interview. All other non‑medical applicants must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they have applied for inclusion in the UKPHR Specialist Register (for example, confirmation that a UKPHR specialist portfolio has been submitted).
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Selection process details
The Post Holder Will:
- Provide professional leadership and expert advice on Clinical and Public Health quality, governance and improvement.
- Lead development and implementation of the UKHSA Clinical and Public Health Quality Management Framework.
- Coordinate the collection, analysis and interpretation of quality, governance and assurance intelligence across UKHSA.
- Support the Clinical Quality Oversight Committee in discharging its governance, assurance and oversight functions.
- Promote a culture of quality improvement, organisational learning and patient and public safety.
- Lead preparation and support arrangements for external inspections and reviews, including CQC-related activity where appropriate.
- Provide expert governance input into the development of new Clinical and Public Health services.
Main Duties And Responsibilities
- Act as an ambassador and advocate for Clinical and Public
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