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Jenny Wright, Public Health Resource Unit

Jenny Wright, Public Health Resource Unit Isabel Perez and Jonathan Bardill, East Midlands Teaching Public Health Network Considering a career in public health? – Check the PHORCaST. Workshop Learning Outcomes. A better understanding of: Current context for public health

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Jenny Wright, Public Health Resource Unit

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  1. Jenny Wright, Public Health Resource Unit Isabel Perez and Jonathan Bardill, East Midlands Teaching Public Health Network Considering a career in public health? – Check the PHORCaST

  2. Workshop Learning Outcomes A better understanding of: • Current context for public health • Potential for careers for wide variety of students • How institutions teaching public health can enhance their impact by contributing to PHORCaST

  3. How the workshop will be run • Initial (brief) presentation • Group work • Feedback/discussion and summarising key points

  4. The Prevalence Of Obesity In England • nearly a quarter of men and women are obese • about 10% of children are obese and 20-25% are overweight • some 40% of Britons likely to be obese by 2025 • by 2050 we could be a mainly obese society. Source: Tackling Obesities: Future Choices – Project Report. Foresight Oct 2007

  5. Source: Professor Ichiro Kawachi:  'Individual versus Collective Responsibility for Health (or Why Some Societies Make you Sick)' . Presentation to 15th Forum UKPHA. 27 March 2007

  6. Why are we doing this work? • To build a competent and confident public health workforce to lead the response on public health issues • To raise awareness among the whole workforce about making a positive impact on health through their roles

  7. Who makes the public health workforce? Public health is: “the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organised efforts of society” (Acheson Report 1988) • Specialists • Practitioners • Wider workforce

  8. A Sample of Workforces with the potential to influence Determinants of Health Political and Global Leaders, Scientists, Business Leaders, Civil Servants Waste management professionals, Farmers, Gardeners, Landscape Designers Architects, Traffic engineers, Spatial planners, Electricians, Plumbers, Builders Restaurant owners, Caterers, Transportation planners, Teachers, Business owners/Employers, Airline workers/ Pilots, Engineers, Scientists Employers, Businessmen, Bankers Doctors, Nurses, Pharmacists, Carers, Social Workers Religious leaders, Local Leaders, School teachers The Health Map. Barton & Grant 2006 Based on a public health concept by Whitehead & Dahlgren. The Lancet 1991

  9. Source: N Cavill

  10. In the Trust…

  11. The Public HealthSkills and Career Framework Knowledge PH SKILLS & CAREER FRAMEWORK LEVELS 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 2 3 Surveillance and assessment Examples of roles Assessing the evidence Core Regulation Policy and strategy Training & qualifications Leadership and collaborative working Knowledge COMPETENCES Health Improvement Health Protection Defined INFORMS Public Health Intelligence Academic Public Health Health and Social Care Quality

  12. Why the Skills and Career Frameworkwas developed • National effort towards specialist workforce development • Diverse and fragmented practitioner workforce • Some groups characterised by lack of development, career opportunity, professional home • No common approach to competences, knowledge base or standards • Little attention to what the wider workforce needs to understand/know about public health

  13. Achievements of the Framework to date! • Unique! • Provides a focus to the whole specialist and practitioner workforce (UK-wide) • Used for workforce planning, training and development of diverse groups • Has additional benefits and uses for the wider workforce • Has informed standard setting for practitioner regulation • Provides basis for public health careers development

  14. Teaching Public Health Networks (England) TPHNs are regional teams, funded by DH to promote public health development: • Foster links between service, academic and third sectors leading to curricula change for health (using PHSCF), particularly for wider workforce

  15. Public Health On-line Resource for Careers, Skills and Training By October 09 “one-stop” website providing: • Guide to public health careers • Role descriptors • Career stories • Links to courses UK-wide • Competence matching to roles and courses • Formal qualification routes

  16. Why PHORCaST is needed • Huge public health agenda • Issues of recruitment some areas • No one place to find career and course information

  17. Home Page e-Guide to public health careers: getting started Public health “families” Public health settings External Links External Links 80 PUBLIC HEALTH ROLESMulti-organisational, Trans-disciplinaryPublic health competences (& KSF)Qualifications & training neededRegulation Agenda for Change; e-KSF; SfH;LA etc. Relevant professional organisations websites Formalqualifications/ routes UK-wideTraining providers &Training provision IndividualCareer Stories Users : Individuals Human Resources Employers Workforce Planners Career guidance PH Professions Education commissioners Professional bodies Higher Education Institutions

  18. Searching • Public health functions and roles • Competences • Courses • Getting started • Making a public health contribution

  19. Ways you can help • Help your students find information on public health careers • Help keep PHORCaST up-to-date by feeding in information on courses linked to roles and competences • Comment on how we can best liaise with institutions to sustain PHORCaST • Comment on how PHORCaST can be made easy for providers to use

  20. Thank you Any questions? For more information visit www.phru.org.uk

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