Head of Health Protection, Imms and Vaccs

at  NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board

Health Protection Leadership Lead on a co-ordinated and proactive relationship with Public Health, ensuring that the ICB has a comprehensive and clear approach to health protection Lead implementation of the service working alongside Place Base Partnership and ICB colleagues to effect a coordinated approach to system. Integrate the NHS Regional team with the delegation of imms, vaccs and screening Lead on Midlands approach in to screening, imms and vaccs in line with delegated responsibilities and ICS hosting arrangements Establish a system of assurance for the regional service including measurement and monitoring of quality standards Ensure continuous review and quality improvement ensuring effective planning in areas of health protection and contributing to a co-ordinated response to health protection incidents Jointly develop the ICS work plan for heath protection in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire with the SRO/Deputy Medical Director and Associate Director of Health Inequalities and Clinical Strategic Programmes to describe objectives and timescales for delivery within the plan. Ensure clear links are established and maintained with local Infection Prevention and Control teams, Immunisation teams and Resilience leads within Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB and be an active partner within ICS. Lead the local health protection service response to safeguard the populations health through the development of health protection strategies and policies for communicable disease, reduction of vaccine preventable disease, infection control and environmental health.
Deliver an effective health protection service within Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB and be an active partner within ICS encompassing remaining COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 work. Develop an agreed approach to allocation of tasks (as required) for the management of cases, incidents, and outbreaks of infectious diseases. Utilise an evidence-based approach to manage clinical/professional advice and discussions within the service and support and participate in the teams case management and review process. Engage with other local, regional, and national organisations and staff and agree withthem how health protection should be delivered locally.
Ensure the effective investigation and management of a range of health protection incidents and outbreaks. Lead on embedding a clear approach to health inequalities in all areas of health protection. Lead for Health Protection, immunisation and vaccination with ICB, ICS integrated Primary Care and the Directors of Public Health in driving forward the immunisation and vaccination strategy to deliver improved health and wellbeing outcomes for the population. Lead the work in partnership to co-design the screening strategy plus develop an operational mobilisation plan with an emphasis on engaging the wider stakeholders both within the ICS and the regional team.
Lead for centralising oversight and assurance and coordination within the ICB and central point of contact with system partners. Service Development Develop evidence of effectiveness of health and healthcare interventions, initiatives, programmes and services allowing for a clinically led, innovative approach to areas of Health Protection In conjunction with SRO/clinical lead provide highly specialised public health advice and leadership to support and inform an evidence-based approach for the commissioning, development and improvement of high-quality equitable services across primary, secondary and social care, and local authorities, voluntary and community organisations in potentially contentious and hostile environments where barriers to acceptance may exist. To be responsible for leading service development, evaluation and quality assurance governance in specific areas and for preparing and adjusting action plans in line with changing needs and geographical boundaries. To be responsible for the identification and implementation of appropriate health outcome measures, social and health care pathways/protocols and guidelines for service delivery across patient pathways for the local population.
Surveillance and assessment of the populations health and well-being To maintain and improve effective systems for the surveillance of both noncommunicable and communicable disease and environmental hazards across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire and ensure that these inform national surveillance systems. To develop information and intelligence systems to underpin health protection and aligns with improvement and action across disciplines and system organisations. To receive, interpret, provide and advise on highly complex, qualitative and quantitative information about the health of populations to colleagues and wider partners. To write and/or contribute to local, national reports on the health of the population of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.
Contribute to the development of health strategies and policies for communicable disease, reduction of vaccine preventable disease, infection control. Vaccination Management At each phase of the vaccination programme assess the proposed network coverage and develop solutions to bridge any identified gaps in coverage Manage the supply of vaccinations across the delivery network to ensure optimal and equitable supply and minimise the level of vaccine wastage Attend the regional vaccination meetings Attend vaccination and incident management team meetings Ensure the team responds promptly to planned & unplanned requests from region, ICS, other stake holders Develop responses to new requests from region often at short notice Provide critical information to the Executive and senior leadership team as directed

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