Deputy COPHI & Director of Strategy

Please see attached for the full job description. Job purpose • The Deputy Chief Officer for Population Health Improvement provides senior strategic leadership in shaping and delivering the clusters longterm population health strategy, ensuring a clear and evidencebased vision that improves outcomes, reduces inequalities and delivers maximum value from the population budget • Acting as Deputy to the Chief Officer, the post holder provides visible and credible system leadership, representing the Directorate across executive, system and partnership forums • The role brings together population insight, health economics, intelligence, evaluation, digital capability and improvement functions to create a coherent strategic framework that supports allocative prioritisation and evidencedriven commissioning • They ensure strategic choices reflect the organisations responsibilities as a strategic commissioner and are informed by a deep understanding of population need, inequalities and system pressures • The post holder provides leadership for systemwide transformation, ensuring programmes are aligned with the three shifts of the 10year health plan, financially sustainable and designed to deliver measurable improvements in outcomes • Working collaboratively with NHS providers, local authorities, VCSE organisations, public health, social care and community partners, they build consensus around complex strategic issues and enable integrated delivery of shared priorities across the cluster • Through this leadership, the Deputy COPHI ensures the population health strategy is implemented effectively, supporting sustainable transformation, strengthening prevention and improving the health and wellbeing of the communities served. Key accountabilities • Provide senior leadership for the development, communication and delivery of the population health strategy, ensuring it is evidencebased, outcomefocused and aligned with the organisations role as a strategic commissioner • Lead the development and oversight of longterm strategic plans for the cluster, ensuring they are coherent, achievable and informed by robust population health intelligence, insights, evaluation and health economics • Drive allocative prioritisation and resource deployment across the cluster, ensuring investment and disinvestment decisions are guided by need, inequalities, evidence and value for money • Ensure governance, assurance and performance frameworks are in place across population health and strategy functions, providing clear accountability, oversight and risk management • Provide leadership for systemwide transformation, ensuring programmes are strategically aligned, financially sustainable and deliver measurable improvements in population health outcomes and reduced inequalities • Act as Deputy to the Chief Officer for Population Health Improvement, providing visible and credible leadership across the directorate and representing the population health agenda in executive, system and partnership forums • Lead strategic alignment across intelligence, digital, commissioning, performance and improvement functions to enable a coherent, integrated approach to longterm system direction • Build and maintain strong collaborative relationships with executive, clinical, operational and partner leaders to secure consensus around shared priorities and support coordinated delivery across the cluster • Monitor progress against strategic and population health objectives, ensuring issues are identified early, interventions are agreed and accountability for delivery is maintained • Monitor and interpret national, regional and local developments, ensuring the directorate and wider cluster respond proactively to emerging risks, pressures and opportunities • Provide senior leadership to staff within the population health and strategy functions, fostering a highperforming, inclusive and improvementfocused culture • Ensure the financial implications of strategic and population health activity are assessed, understood and managed within available resources Job description Job responsibilities Please see attached for the full job description. Job purpose • The Deputy Chief Officer for Population Health Improvement provides senior strategic leadership in shaping and delivering the clusters longterm population health strategy, ensuring a clear and evidencebased vision that improves outcomes, reduces inequalities and delivers maximum value from the population budget • Acting as Deputy to the Chief Officer, the post holder provides visible and credible system leadership, representing the Directorate across executive, system and partnership forums • The role brings together population insight, health economics, intelligence, evaluation, digital capability and improvement functions to create a coherent strategic framework that supports allocative prioritisation and evidencedriven commissioning • They ensure strategic choices reflect the organisations responsibilities as a strategic commissioner and are informed by a deep understanding of population need, inequalities and system pressures • The post holder provides leadership for systemwide transformation, ensuring programmes are aligned with the three shifts of the 10year health plan, financially sustainable and designed to deliver measurable improvements in outcomes • Working collaboratively with NHS providers, local authorities, VCSE organisations, public health, social care and community partners, they build consensus around complex strategic issues and enable integrated delivery of shared priorities across the cluster • Through this leadership, the Deputy COPHI ensures the population health strategy is implemented effectively, supporting sustainable transformation, strengthening prevention and improving the health and wellbeing of the communities served. Key accountabilities • Provide senior leadership for the development, communication and delivery of the population health strategy, ensuring it is evidencebased, outcomefocused and aligned with the organisations role as a strategic commissioner • Lead the development and oversight of longterm strategic plans for the cluster, ensuring they are coherent, achievable and informed by robust population health intelligence, insights, evaluation and health economics • Drive allocative prioritisation and resource deployment across the cluster, ensuring investment and disinvestment decisions are guided by need, inequalities, evidence and value for money • Ensure governance, assurance and performance frameworks are in place across population health and strategy functions, providing clear accountability, oversight and risk management • Provide leadership for systemwide transformation, ensuring programmes are strategically aligned, financially sustainable and deliver measurable improvements in population health outcomes and reduced inequalities • Act as Deputy to the Chief Officer for Population Health Improvement, providing visible and credible leadership across the directorate and representing the population health agenda in executive, system and partnership forums • Lead strategic alignment across intelligence, digital, commissioning, performance and improvement functions to enable a coherent, integrated approach to longterm system direction • Build and maintain strong collaborative relationships with executive, clinical, operational and partner leaders to secure consensus around shared priorities and support coordinated delivery across the cluster • Monitor progress against strategic and population health objectives, ensuring issues are identified early, interventions are agreed and accountability for delivery is maintained • Monitor and interpret national, regional and local developments, ensuring the directorate and wider cluster respond proactively to emerging risks, pressures and opportunities • Provide senior leadership to staff within the population health and strategy functions, fostering a highperforming, inclusive and improvementfocused culture • Ensure the financial implications of strategic and population health activity are assessed, understood and managed within available resources