Population Health Fellow

· This one-year part-time programme (two days a week alongside your substantive post) can start anytime between end of November 2024 and end of January 2025.
· You will work with the ELFT Population Health and Primary Care team on a supervised project to promote health and reduce health inequalities for East London's homeless population for 2 days a week alongside your substantive role.
· You will have teaching sessions arranged by the London School of Public Health, NHSE London.
Eligibility: You must be an early to mid-career professional (AfC band 6 and above, or equivalent; dentists-in-training; doctors-in-training post-FY2 and SAS equivalent).
Please visit this webpage for details on the established eligibility criteria and important documents such as the Rough Guide and FAQ Guide.
We encourage applicants from all sections of the community, including those from Black and ethnic minority backgrounds, those with disabilities, from the LGBTQ+ communities and people with lived experience of using healthcare services both for mental health and physical health., Population Health
Population health is an approach aimed at improving the health of a population group. It is about improving the physical and mental health outcomes and wellbeing of people, whilst reducing health inequalities within and across a defined population. It includes action to reduce the occurrence of ill-health, including addressing wider determinants of health, and requires working with communities and partner agencies.
This is an opportunity for health and care professionals interested in population health and passionate about health inequalities in a mental health, community and primary care provider trust setting.

Working for our organisation
East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT)
ELFT is strongly committed to improving population health as a provider of mental, community and primary care services. Improving population health is one of its four strategic organisational objectives, ensuring it is integrated in all its activities across the Trust. This includes becoming the first Marmot NHS Trust in the country, adapting Marmot's eight evidence-based principles to reduce health inequalities as part of the Trust's strategic framework.
ELFT has a strong commitment to supporting the education and learning of a wide range of healthcare professionals including public health, psychiatry, paediatrics and NHS graduate trainees.
This Fellowship will support learning about how population health is taken forward in specialist primary care practices for East London's homeless population. This is a unique project opportunity to work with and collaboratively learn about how we can best support and reduce health inequalities for a particularly vulnerable population group. It will include partnership working across ELFT, with local authority public health teams, relevant community partners and the North East London Integrated Care Board, providing an opportunity to demonstrate skills in system leadership through a supportive environment., It is a one-year part-time programme at two days a week alongside your substantive post, which can start anytime between 4^th November 2024 and 31st January 2025. Fellows will work with the ELFT population health and primary care teams on a supervised population health project, focused on improving health and reducing health inequalities for people registered at three specialist primary care homeless practices in City and Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Newham. This experiential learning will be supported by online and face to face taught sessions arranged by the London School of Public Health, NHSE London.
Please visit this webpage for details on the established eligibility criteria and important documents such as the Rough Guide and FAQ Guide.
We encourage applicants from all sections of the community, including those from Black and ethnic minority backgrounds, those with disabilities, from the LGBTQ+ communities and people with lived experience of using healthcare services both for mental health and physical health.
Please ensure
1. You have permission form your line manager/programme director before you apply
2. You meet the Person Specification listed below
We are looking for someone who is passionate about improving the health of the population, reducing health inequalities, and interested in working with clinical colleagues to embed a population health approach in the wider clinical workforce.
You will be supervised by Laura Austin Croft, Director of Population Health and Emily Van de Pol, Director of Primary Care.
Making Things Better
Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don't stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.
We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.
Our Community
We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London. We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.
Aiming High
We were rated 'Outstanding' by the CQC in 2016, were proud to be rated 'Outstanding' again in 2018 and continue to be rate 'Outstanding' in 2021.. We were named in the HSJ's Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.
Staff and Service Users United
We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.
We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.
Diversity
ELFT Is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve. Having partnered and endorsed by organisations who are representative and experts in various areas of equality and diversity, we can ensure we are meeting the pre-set standards all the way from recruitment stage throughout the career journey of our employees by being accessible, having fair inclusive practices and a host of staff networks to support, nurture and celebrate our valued staff in the workplace.
Other reasons to apply
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern.
As part of the relocation scheme we presently have, the Trust could support you with offering up to £10,000 for removal and associated expenses. This is subject to change and terms and conditions apply.

Early to mid-career professional (AfC band 6 and above, or equivalent; dentists-in-training; doctors-in-training post-FY2 and SAS equivalent)., You must be an early to mid-career professional (AfC band 6 and above, or equivalent; dentists-in-training; doctors-in-training post-FY2 and SAS equivalent).

You must be an early to mid-career professional (AfC band 6 and above, or equivalent; dentists-in-training; doctors-in-training post-FY2 and SAS equivalent).
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations., The fellowship targets early to mid-career professionals providing NHS or public services relevant to population health (Agenda for Change band 6 and above, or equivalent; dentists-in-training; doctors-in-training post-FY2 and their SAS equivalent). The aim of the fellowship is to develop a growing network of professionals from a non-population health background with population health skills to benefit place-based healthcare systems across England.

Fixed term: 12 months (This one-year part-time programme working two days a week alongside the successful applicants substantive post)

Hours
15 hours per week (This one-year part-time programme working two days a week alongside the successful applicants substantive post)