Public Health Intelligence Team Lead

New Opportunity

Public Health Intelligence Team Lead
Rate: £400 - per day (negotiable)
Location: flexible working pattern, 2 days in the office
Duration: until 31st March 2025

We are currently working with a Local Authority who are recruiting for a Public Health Intelligence Team Manager will work collaboratively across the whole of the Council to support the delivery of a broad range of strategic objectives/outcomes including the whole Council’s contribution to improving health and reducing health inequalities. The postholder will manage the public health analyst team and work closely with the Director of Public Health, the Consultant in Public Health Intelligence, and the Public Health Team.

Key responsibilities

• Lead innovatively and creatively to ensure an epidemiological and population approach helps shape and influence the transformation of Council, system, and partnership objectives
• Taking lead responsibility for the production, development and promotion of specific public health information, datasets, and statistical services within Cambridgeshire, with a focus on improving our data management and working with colleagues across the system on population health management approaches
• Monitoring and describing the health status of the local population through the analysis, interpretation, and presentation of a range of information
• Delivering analyses of NHS data and intelligence to support NHS commissioning as part of the statutory healthcare public health advice service to the NHS and for joint commissioning between the Council and the NHS
• Ensure the production of quality assured management and performance information for designated areas of responsibility and promote a corporate approach
• Work collaboratively with public health colleagues, intelligence, and wider colleagues to manage and meet their public health information and intelligence needs, particularly around service commissioning and monitoring
• Work closely with the public health intelligence resource in Peterborough City Council to manage and produce JSNA and Pharmaceutical Needs Assessments, which are produced jointly across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

Key requirements:

• Expert knowledge of public health practice and methods related to epidemiology, statistics, and analytics
• Expert knowledge of data and information management relevant disciplines, including information management systems and software
• Leadership and management
• Expert knowledge of information sources relevant to public health, including NHS information sources 
• Awareness of current national and regional public health policy, organisations, and strategies 
• Up to date knowledge of governance, policies and quality assurance mechanisms relating to national and local public health and NHS data
• A thorough understanding of the environment in which local government, the ICB and key partnerships operate, including public health, local authority and NHS commissioning and delivery
• First degree or equivalent appropriate relevant demonstrable experience
• Master’s degree or appropriate relevant demonstrable experience

If you have the above experience, please apply and I will give you a call to discuss further!