GEOGRAPHY AND POPULATION COVERED BY THE TEAM
The population of Shetland is approximately 22,500 and is spread over an island group stretching almost 100 miles north to south miles with 13 inhabited islands.
The Board’s single local hospital (Gilbert Bain Hospital) delivers a comprehensive range of secondary health care services to the local population through a number of local teams providing emergency care, inpatient medical, surgical and maternity services; out-patient and ambulatory care services; child health (including CAMHS); community mental health services, including a Community Mental Health Team, Substance Misuse Recovery Service and Dementia Team. These services are augmented by visiting clinicians providing out patient clinics, surgical interventions and clinical support.
Ten health centres, distributed throughout the islands act as the base for primary and community health care services. There is one independent GP practice and nine practices run by NHS Shetland. There is one co-terminus Local Authority (Shetland Islands Council) and one Integration Joint Board, and one Community Planning Partnership. There are nine residential care homes for older people, all but one run by the Local Authority.
APPROX PUBLIC HEALTH WORKFORCE CAPACITY
39 staff -one vacancy , three currently on FTCs
Approx 33 WTE.
HOW WORKFORCE IS STRUCTURED AND TYPES OF PUBLIC HEALTH ROLES WITHIN
Public Health Directorate
Director of Public Health
- Public Health Directorate Business Manager
- Public Health Directorate Administrator Business Continuity & Resilience Officer
- Senior Public Health Information Analyst (part time)
- Vacant, Consultant in Public Health /Public Health Medicine (part time)
Areas of work include: support to whole Directorate; business continuity and resilience for NHS Board; Prevent; Climate change and sustainability; Anchor Organisation Plan; Realistic Medicine & VBHC; Child Health Commissioner; gender based violence / VAWG; community justice; healthcare public health.
Head of Planning (part time)
- Planning, Performance and Projects Team – covers NHS Board and IJB planning, also partnership working with CPP and programme management for Realistic Medicine
- Information Team – information services for NHS Board
Health Improvement Team – covers all HI work and some generic public health work – including prevention work; needs assessment; smoking cessation services; weight management & physical activity; ‘Healthy Shetland’ programme; parenting programmes; community link worker; Type 2 diabetes work; inequalities and poverty; trauma informed practice; ‘Good Mental Health for All’ and suicide prevention; awareness raising and campaigns.
https://www.healthyshetland.com/
Health Protection Team – covers all HP work, vaccination planning etc, screening programme co-ordination, SH &BBV
Vaccination Team – (clinical) based at dedicated vaccination clinic
Drug and Alcohol Partnership Support Team – needs assessment, strategy development, commissioning of services, implementation of MAT standards; awareness raising; prevention; sudden death audit.