Deputy Director – Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service

Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nottingham

The Deputy Director – Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service (LKIS) will lead local knowledge and intelligence teams which provide regional population health intelligence and surveillance support to local health and care systems.

Population Health Intelligence:

The postholder will oversee arrangements to provide effective local-national engagement on population health. They will have a key role in working with national and regional stakeholders including Regional Directors of Public Health to provide system leadership in population health intelligence as a key component of population health management (PHM) and Integrated Care System and Boards.

They will support an integrated and user centred approach to developing and brokering access to national population health analytics tools and support offers. This will require working with key local partners from public, private and academic sectors to build capacity and expertise in population health intelligence and analytics.

They will manage cross-cutting regional capacity and resources in analytics, knowledge mobilisation and analytical workforce development, identifying at-scale opportunities and sharing good practice to support local government and wider integrated health and care systems. This will include leadership of training and workforce development activities, including apprenticeships.

Public Health Analysis Unit:

The post-holder will deputise for the Director of Public Health Analysis when required and will play a key role in the determination and implementation of corporate strategies and plans within OHID. 

This is a critical role which supports the delivery of the primary OHID function to improve the public’s health and reduce disparities.

As Deputy Director – Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service, your responsibilities will be:

Management and Leadership:

• Be a positive role model and an effective member of the PHAU Senior Management team.
• Lead the function to deliver defined outputs to the required quality, within budget and on-time.
• Take measures to continually develop and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the function.
• Develop staff members to be the best they can be through robust internal communications appropriate delegation, effective appraisal and mentoring, and visible leadership.
• Ensure that staff engagement, as measured by the annual staff survey, in the function is high and improvements are made, year on year.
• Develop innovative practice and service delivery models, both within the PHAU, OHID and beyond, involving other staff groups as appropriate.
• Work with colleagues across DHSC and ALBs to identify and ensure the maintenance of business-critical activities.
• Ensure the business and budgetary planning processes are fully in place and functioning effectively, reporting to agreed standards and timescales.
• Ensure succession planning within the function, responsible for the retention, recruitment, interviewing, selection and induction of new staff in the function.
• Ensure effective governance of the function through a process of management team meetings and review of relevant governance issues including health and safety and risk.
• Resolve complaints, grievances, capability, and disciplinary issues at the appropriate level.
• Providing leadership in a changing environment.
• Act on behalf of the Director of the Public Health Analysis Unit as required (Deputy).

It is important through your CV and Statement of Suitability that you give evidence and examples of proven experience of each of the following

Essential Criteria:

• A successful track record leading a diverse and inclusive team, and working collaboratively across organisations, and with multiple stakeholders, in a rapidly changing and uncertain environment.
• Expert knowledge of public health intelligence and analytical approaches based on secure data environments, reproducible analytical pipelines, and visualisation tools.
• Expert knowledge and experience of knowledge translation in a public health context.
• Understanding of decision-making processes at national and local level in both government and healthcare settings.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills.
• Aptitude to understand complex issues that may be outside of established skill sets, such as statistical policy.

• A relevant degree (BSc, MSc, PhD) which demonstrates core analytic and public health skills, or equivalent experience developed in the workplace and ability to demonstrate continuous professional development in both the analytic and public health fields.

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

• 25 days annual leave on entry, increasing on a sliding scale to 30 days after 5 years’ service. This is in addition to 8 public holidays.

  This will be complemented by one further day paid privilege entitlement to mark the King’s Birthday.

This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. An assignment duration
is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them
to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through
building your depth of expertise.

As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above.
This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions.
Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and
conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your
personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any
absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you
to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.

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Job contact :

• Name : SCS Recruitment
• Email : scscandidate.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Recruitment team

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