Interim Head of Health Intelligence

Interim Head of Health Intelligence (Inside IR35)

(Part Time 21.5 hours per week)

About the role

You will lead the Health Intelligence function within our clients’s Public Health team, managing a team of analysts and officers, and developing and influencing the overall direction of the function.

Drawing on your deep Public Health knowledge and analytical experience, you will be able to initiate and lead strategic projects and programmes with a wide range of colleagues and stakeholders to better understand the demographic, epidemiological and service-related population health challenges and inequalities within Camden.

You will be the directorate lead for information governance. Your strategic scope of work will include cultivating and sustaining senior professional relationships with partners across the council, health and care system and beyond. Key responsibilities include:

• · Leading the intelligence team, and work with colleagues across the directorate, organisation and system in the delivery of core analytical workstreams, including development of reports, presentations, needs assessments and evaluations.
• · Overseeing and assuring analytical approaches (using primary and secondary data, quantitative and qualitative sources) to understand and respond to population health challenges, including the use of novel approaches and datasets.
• · Manage strategic relationships with a range of colleagues and stakeholders both within and outside the Public Health Directorate and provide expert public health, statistical and epidemiological advice, including to the wider council, NHS integrated care system and voluntary and community sector
• · Communicating findings in written, oral and visual formats to technical, lay and political audiences.
• · Identifying opportunities to better use data and intelligence to improve population health, for example through data linkage and collaborations across the organisation, NHS and academia.
• · Working with information technology and other colleagues in maintaining and improving information systems, and assuring the safe, effective and lawful handling of information and data assets.
• · Develop processes and system to optimise the effectiveness, efficiency and impact of the intelligence team.
• · Engaging in continuing professional development and mandatory training, including taking leadership roles in analytical capacity building across the organisation.

About you

• · Hold a postgraduate degree in Public Health, Epidemiology or related discipline; alternatively you may a postgraduate-equivalent qualification and registration such as Practitioner status with the UK Public Health Register (UKPHR)
• · Deep and long-standing practical experience of Health Intelligence in a Public Health or population health organisation.
• · Experience of project management, team leadership (and / or supervision), working with other professionals and stakeholders to deliver on strategic as well as operational business objectives.
• · Expertise in designing and deploying analytical approaches using a range of analytical software to inform policy and organisational decision-making.
• · High standard of communication skills, demonstrated by the ability to present complex information both in writing and orally, in a variety of formats, and to a variety of audiences.
• · Ability to develop and deliver presentations to large audiences featuring public health, statistical or epidemiological information.
• · Understanding of the role of local authorities, health and social care in the management of population health.
• · Experience of implementing, auditing and assuring information governance and data protection legislation.
• · Expertise in using data warehousing and data management tools to support analytical workstreams.
• · Ability to work independently and with others, prioritising workloads within agreed timescales and to meet deadlines and lead the work of a team.
• · Ability to work flexibly in a changing environment and adapt team working practices to facilitate high performance.
• · Ability and motivation to develop and improve skills, and progress in a Health Intelligence or Public Health career.
• · Accuracy, attention to detail and a methodical approach
• · Commitment to the Clients’s equality, diversity and inclusion policies, in-line with the Public Sector Equality Duty.

Rate Of Pay

PAYE: £338.54

Umbrella: £428.09

Location: Camden

Job Types: Part-time, Temporary contract

Contract length: 3 months Extension possible