The final competencies for a ph consultant
Higher specialist training should equip trainees to work as public health consultants. Once they have completed training they should have the skills and knowledge to:
- Quantitatively and qualitatively assess the population's health and heath needs, including managing, analysing, interpreting, and communicating information that relates to the determinants and status of health and well-being and allows development of effective action.
- Critically assess the evidence relating to the effectiveness of health and healthcare interventions, programmes and services, apply this to practice and improve services and interventions through audit and evaluation.
- Influence the development of policies, implement strategies to put the policies into effect and assess the impact of policies on health.
- Lead teams and individuals, build alliances, develop capacity and capability, work in partnership with other practitioners and agencies and effectively use the media to improve health and wellbeing.
- Promote the health of populations by influencing lifestyle and socio-economic, physical and cultural environment through methods of health promotion, including health education, directed towards populations, communities and individuals.
- Protect the public's health from communicable and environmental hazards by application of a range of methods including hazard identification, risk assessment and the promotion and implementation of appropriate interventions.
- Support commissioning, clinical governance, quality improvement, patient safety, equity of service provision and prioritisation of health and social care services.
- Collect, generate, synthesise, appraise, analyse, interpret and communicate intelligence that measures the health status, risks, needs and health outcomes of defined populations.
- Teach and research in public health