Deadline: 24-Jan-2025
The West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership is inviting applications for the Improving Population Health Fellowships to tackle health inequalities and help make West Yorkshire an equity-informed system.
Fellowship Areas
- They are looking to recruit:
- 30 Healthy Equity Fellows
- 30 Adversity, Trauma and Resilience Fellows
- 5 Suicide Prevention Fellows:
- 5 Climate Change Fellows
- 5 Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Fellows
Objectives
- Health Equity Fellows
- Identify and respond to health inequity and inequalities
- Build equity and inequalities champions across West Yorkshire
- Create a health equity fellow peer network
- Share learning and best practice
- Adversity, Trauma and Resilience Fellows
- Identify and respond to adversity, trauma and resilience
- Build trauma informed champions across West Yorkshire
- Create an adversity, trauma and resilience fellow peer network
- Share learning and best practice across West Yorkshire
- Principles
- Trauma informed organisations offer:
- cultural, physical, relational and emotional safety
- trust and transparency
- peer support and mutual self-help
- collaboration and mutuality
- empowerment, voice and choice
- culturally responsive services
- Trauma informed organisations offer:
- Suicide Prevention Fellows
- Work collaboratively to create a movement for change
- Build suicide prevention champions across West Yorkshire
- Share learning and best practice
- In addition to the benefits offered to all fellows, they will:
- support you, provide regular supervision and guidance – you will be part of the team and part of a growing movement of people motivated to reduce suicide across West Yorkshire
- provide one-to-one and small group training on suicide and health inequalities
- ensure access to online suicide prevention training as well as in person training delivered by Papyrus
- Climate Change Fellows
- Reduce the environmental impact of health and social care in West Yorkshire
- Build climate and sustainability champions across West Yorkshire
- Share learning and best practice
- Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Fellows
- Reduce AMR and inequalities related to infections
- Reduce the number of urinary tract infections (UTIs) across the system
- Reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing
- Antimicrobial and infection prevention sustainability
- Learn from Covid-19
Benefits
- Benefits for organisations
- Fellowships will:
- provide the opportunity to change behaviour, empower employees, and build authentic relationships with networks and partners across West Yorkshire
- support professional and personal development, with no cost to the employer
- meet the shifting needs of employees and organisations together with the communities they serve
- give fellows the confidence, insights and motivation to expand or extend work in their chosen area
- bring new ideas, tactics, and perspectives
- contribute to the future success of the organisation in a specific area
- Fellowships will:
- Benefits for fellows
- As a fellow you will:
- gain valuable experience and learning under the guidance of mentors and experts
- receive guidance, institutional support and professional development
- gain practical knowledge and learning from your experiences and be able to embed that learning across West Yorkshire
- get free Foundation Programme in Public Health training delivered by Health Education England and the University of Leeds
- be able to access bespoke training in your chosen area as well as access to the Improving Population Health Programme areas of work, for example: Health Inequalities Academy and Network, Adversity Trauma and Resilience Programme, Suicide Prevention Programme, Climate Change Programme and Prevention Network
- expand your professional networks through engagement with other fellows and exposure to experts, programmes and organisations pioneering positive change
- build relationships with colleagues working in the five places – Bradford District and Craven, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield
- be able to publish details about your fellowship projects on the website and partner websites
- As a fellow you will:
Fellowship Expectations
- The Improving Population Health Fellowships will run between 1 April 2025 and 31 March 2026.
- Fellows will be expected to dedicate one day a week of their time to attend training and work on a fellowship project
- Projects will be bespoke to the Fellowship themes, criteria and a list of potential projects will be provided
- Projects could be delivered in the applicant’s usual place of work or contribute to wider joined up or system approaches taking place across the area. Submission of an interim and final report is required as part of the programme
- Meetings and trainings may be face to face at a central location or virtually over MS Teams. Fellows are expected to attend all meetings and trainings and therefore fellows must be able to travel to meetings and will also require a device and an internet connection.
Who should apply?
- The Improving Population Health Programme Fellowship is designed to bring together the diverse organisations and professionals that influence health and wellbeing, attracting applicants that are representative of the communities they serve. The Fellowship is open to all primary, secondary, community and voluntary sector colleagues across West Yorkshire irrespective of your current job role, grade or profession. There are no specific educational requirements.
- To apply you will:
- be passionate about your specialist area of choice – see the relevant sections above
- want to become a champion and achieve change
- be committed to the delivery of a fellowship project
- agree to carry out formal learning as part of the fellowship
- confirm prior support from your current organisation that you will have protected time to take part fully in the fellowship
For more information, visit West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership.
