Population Health Management Lead

The Population Health Management Lead is a new role based in NHSE Dental, Spec Comm and PHM (DSP) team in the East of England Region. You will work with consultants, program managers and specialists including Dental Public Heath, Specialised commissioning, and population health to manage and develop projects in line with the regional priorities and DSP delivery plans.
You will provide the primary Intelligence and assurance function and expertise in the fields of epidemiological data and modelling, health needs assessment, analysis of health data, reviewing health literature and evaluation of healthcare services. You will undertake analyses, interpretation and presentation of public health and healthcare data to provide health and healthcare intelligence to meet the needs of local and regional stakeholders.
You would be required to lead and manage a small team of analytical staff and responsible for using specialist health and healthcare data, extract information and delivering enhanced analytical insight to colleagues and stakeholders; developing and delivering enhanced reporting and visualisation across a variety of business intelligence (BI) functions; production of health and healthcare indicators; quality assurance of health intelligence products supporting the provision of training the team on the capabilities and benefits of high quality, insightful, analytics that facilitates decision making., The post holder will:
+ Lead the development of information sources and infrastructure to support and develop a strong health intelligence function across the DSP team and wider collaborations.
+ Responsible for developing access to health and care data sets including receiving, managing, warehousing, cleaning, recoding and validating data for further statistical analysis large highly complex data from a multitude of sources.
+ Lead strands of data science work and/or complex analytic projects to directly impact how the prevention, health inequalities and PHM agenda in NHS Healthcare services is designed, developed, and delivered.
+ Demonstrate significant experience and understanding of a breadth of analytical methods and their application, to provide high quality, timely analysis and intelligence.
+ Advise on epidemiology, statistics, and analytic techniques pertaining to complex public health questions and hypothesis testing
+ To lead the provision and presentation of complex epidemiological and statistical information to a variety of audiences which will include both those with and without an understanding of statistical techniques to ensure effective communication of critical DSP information., · Lead the development of information sources and infrastructure to support and develop a strong healthcare public health intelligence function across the regional DSP team, in collaboration with wider NHSE directorates, ICSs, OHID and Local authority teams.
· Be responsible for developing access to health and care data sets including receiving, managing, warehousing, cleaning, recoding and validating data for further statistical analysis large highly complex data (including confidential information) for the Healthcare Public Health directorate, wider Public Health functions of Regional Director of Public Health and ICSs. Data sets include but are not limited to online datasets such as Office of National Statistics (e.g., census data), Health & Social Care Information Centre (including birth and death files), Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data, Primary care & social care, QOF(Quality Outcomes Framework), and other data sources such as social care, housing education etc
· Through effective liaison with senior public health commissioning, and clinical colleagues, lead strands of data science work and/or complex analytic projects to directly impact how the prevention, health inequalities and PHM agenda in NHS Healthcare services is designed, developed, and delivered. These include identifying the specific business need, data gathering, determining the best tools, data and techniques to address it, ongoing deliverables and presentations and influencing the business case for delivery.
· Demonstrate significant experience and understanding of a breadth of analytical methods (i.e. economics, epidemiology, statistics, social research, health related disciplines, operational research and evaluation techniques) and their application, to provide high quality, timely analysis and intelligence.
· To advise on matters relating to epidemiology, statistics, and analytic techniques pertaining to complex public health questions and hypothesis testing
· To lead the provision and presentation of complex epidemiological and statistical information to a variety of audiences which will include both those with and without an understanding of statistical techniques to ensure effective communication of critical DSP information.

In April 2023, NHS England, NHS Digital, and Health Education England merged to create a new, single organisation to lead the NHS in England. This new NHS England is designed to create a simpler, smaller, high performing, organisation that leads the NHS more effectively and is a better place to work. Speaking with one voice to the service.
The new NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
+ Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
+ Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
+ Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
+ Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
+ Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/ .
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Please note that the closing date is given as a guide. We reserve the right to close this vacancy once a sufficient number of applications has been received. You are advised to submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
Candidates are reminded that, if you are applying on a secondment basis, you must have agreement with your current manager that if successful you will be released for the period of the secondment.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.