Are you interested in learning more about population health? We are pleased to share details of the East London NHS Foundation Trust Population Health Fellowship funded by NHS England

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 earlyto 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.

Main duties of the job

Population HealthPopulation 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.

About us

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.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Fellowship

The fellowship targets earlyto mid-career professionalsproviding 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 thefellowshipis 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.

It is a one-year part-time programmeattwo days a week alongside your substantive post, which can start anytime between 4th 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 thiswebpage 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.

Person Specification

Academic

Essential

• Registered healthcare professional providing NHS services (AfC band 6 and above, or equivalent dentists-in-training, doctors-in-training ST1 and above, SAS equivalent).

Desirable

• Additional degree or postgraduate qualification (e.g. membership by examination, diploma, etc.)
• nal or international award/prize in relevant area
• Presentations (poster/oral) at an external conference or author in a peer or non-peer reviewed publication

Skills

Essential

• Ability to build partnerships both within and across organisations
• Demonstrates strong oral and documented communication skills
• Able to search and critically review literature

Desirable

• Relevant leadership achievement

Understanding

Essential

• Sound knowledge of the English healthcare system (i.e. service provision, research, education, primary and secondary care, etc.), its current challenges and future national policy direction
• Familiarity with the population health approaches in England

Desirable

• Involvement in driving service change in your current or a previous workplace

Interest

Essential

• Demonstrable interest in health or other relevant research
• Commitment to improving health equity and reducing health inequalities
• Has been involved with clinical audit or other quality improvement project

Desirable

• Has contributed to health or other relevant research

Employer details

Employer name

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Robert Dolan House, Trust HQ, 9 Alie Street, London, E1 8DE

Alie Street

London

E1 8DE

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