- Are you a health care professional with the passion and enthusiasm to drive implementation of public health and prevention within your area of work?
- Do you have an idea that, with support, could deliver quality improvement in public health in your area of practice?
- Would you like to be recognised for leading public health innovation and driving change in your area of practice?
- Would you like to join a programme of support that will help develop your idea?
Champs Public Health Collaborative are recruiting health care leaders from clinical settings across Cheshire and Merseyside into a support programme where they can develop population health skills through designing, implementing, testing and evaluating a small-scale health improvement project within their sphere of practice.
Participants will be supported remotely to utilise the Health Education England (HEE) and Office of Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) toolkit for ‘Embedding Public Health into Clinical Services’ to identify ideas and test public health interventions in their own field of practice.
The opportunity is open to nurses, midwives, health visitors, specialist nurses, medical professions, allied health professionals, dental professions, pharmacy staff, physician associates across all provider settings and care home managers.
There will be two cohorts, each meeting three times over a three-month period to provide a platform of support, share ideas and promote implementation of small-scale public health improvement projects:
| Cohort | Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 |
| 1 | 28/04/2022 | 24/05/2022 | 30/06/2022 |
| 2 | 21/07/2022 | 24/08/2022 | 27/09/2022 |
Your participation will involve:
- Secure agreement from your line manager for participation and to test ideas in practice
- Generate ideas across your team / organisation of what you want to achieve
- Join the programme and offer mutual support, share practice and build networks
- Lead a piece of work within your team / organisation to improve public health
- Develop a case study (with support) to showcase your work
- Take part in the overall programme evaluation
- You must be able to attend all three dates of your chosen cohort.
Benefits to participation include:
- New insights and solutions to public health in practice
- New peer network of colleagues with shared interest
- Opportunity and support to develop and test your public health intervention.
- Opportunity for personal and professional development
- Support in evaluating the impact of your project
- Support in promoting your work via research journals and across your networks with recognition for you in innovation and best practice.
We welcome expressions of interest that focus on the public health priorities outlined in the NHS Long term Plan and Cheshire & Merseyside HCP strategy-2021-2025
To apply, please complete an application form here and email it to lauraclark@wirral.gov.uk by 14th April 2022.