Consultant in Public Health & Head of the PHM Hub

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 the Consultant in Public Health and Head of the Population Health Management Hub at GSTT, you will lead 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 oversee 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 strong clinical experience, leadership skills, and a collaborative approach to effect positive change in health outcomes.,

• Lead the Population Health Management 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 KHP and KCL.


• Support the Deputy Chief Medical Officer (Healthcare Public Health) in providing population health clinical expertise to the 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.


• Ensure the long-term sustainability of the Population Health Management Hub beyond the charity grant duration.


• 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.
  
  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 are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

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.