Population Health Management Lead

Job summary

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.

Main duties of the job

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 analytictechniques 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.

About us

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 agreat 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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