London Population Health Fellowship at the City and Hackney Population Health Hub

🚀 Exciting Opportunity Alert! 🚀

Are you passionate about tackling health inequalities and making a real difference in people’s lives? We’re on the lookout for a driven and enthusiastic professional to join the NHS England Population Health Fellowship Programme for 2025/26!

This prestigious Fellowship is your chance to be at the forefront of change—empowering you to embed population health principles into everyday practice and drive impactful strategies across the health and care system.

Whether you’re from healthcare,or a wider public sector background, this programme is designed to supercharge your ability to influence systems, shape policy, and lead on projects that improve health outcomes for entire communities.

The Fellowship

This fellowship is more than just a learning opportunity—it’s your chance to become part of a growing network of trailblazers transforming health systems across England.

This unique programme is designed to equip early to mid-career professionals—from outside traditional population health roles—with the skills and confidence to shape place-based healthcare systems for the better. Whether you’re a clinician, dentist-in-training, doctor post-FY2, or a public service professional (AfC Band 6 and above or equivalent), this is your opportunity to step into a leadership role in health equity.

🧠 What You’ll Get:

• 1-year, part-time fellowship (2 days/week) alongside your current role—flexible and designed to fit around your existing career.
• A placement working on a real, high-impact project with the City and Hackney Population Health Hub, hosted by the London Borough of Hackney.
• Hands-on experience + academic development—you’ll work toward a Postgraduate Certificate (Level 7) from the University of Salford.
• Salary reimbursement for your employing organisation—up to £33,672 covered by NHS England

The Project

The successful fellow will work with the Population Health Hub on a project to support the shift in focus and resources toward prevention, to improve outcomes and reduce inequalities. We want to support services (health, care, and beyond) to identify opportunities for primary and secondary prevention and build partnerships to support implementation of these. Project goals are to increase:

• Local partners’ understanding of their role in prevention
• Partners taking responsibility for prevention
• The skills, knowledge, and confidence of partners to deliver prevention initiatives.
• Identification of key barriers and enablers to embedding prevention
• Increased integration of prevention into healthcare practices
• Improved support structures for embedding prevention

The fellow will work with us on:

• Identifying the support needed to embed prevention with interested teams
• Testing support methods with willing teams, collaborating with the Homerton Quality Improvement Team
• Identify what helps and what hinders embedding prevention work
• Collect case studies of successful prevention efforts and their impact on residents and staff
• Share lessons learned across teams
• Explore how this approach can be expanded to other areas

This project will enable the fellow to work with a range of stakeholders across healthcare settings, and develop skills in leadership, coaching, governance, change management/improvement, and evidencing impact. 

Eligibility

We are looking for someone who is passionate about improving the health of the population, reducing health inequalities, and interested in working with clinical colleagues to embed a population health approach in the wider clinical workforce. 

We encourage applicants from all sections of the community, including those from Black and ethnic minority backgrounds, those with disabilities, from the LGBTQ+ communities and people with lived experience of using healthcare services both for mental health and physical health.

Please ensure 

• You have permission from your line manager before you apply (fellows require permission from their current employer for 2 days per week for 1 year and confirmation that £33,672 will be sufficient funds to cover your salary for their time spent on the fellowship)
• You are available to begin the fellowship from the 8th September 2025 and must be employed for the duration of the fellowship
• You are available on Wednesdays for the Salford learning programme (online-based)
• You meet the Person Specification listed below 
  • Open to registered healthcare professionals and the wider public sector workforce with opportunities to influence public health
  • Bachelor’s degree (2:2 or above) or equivalent within health and social care
  • At least 2 years of practice experience 
  • Typically Agenda for Change Band 6 and above (or equivalent), dentists/doctors in training (post-FY2), and their Trust/SAS equivalents but we will consider those at lower grades
  • Your substantive role must be based in London
  • No prior qualification in Public Health (eg BSc, Masters, PhD)
  • A minimum level of literacy and numeracy, at least Grade C or 4 in both GCSE English and GCSE Mathematics or equivalent

You will be supervised by the co-leads of the Population Health Hub: Anna Garner (Head of Performance and Population Health, North East London ICB) and Joia de Sa (Consultant in Public Health, City and Hackney Public Health team)

We are hosting a webinar on 7th May to offer a chance to get more information and answer any questions you may have – please register here.

Closing date for all applications is 23:59 21st May 2025

Interview dates (virtually): 11th and 12th June 2025

Please download and complete the application form available via this link and email this to contactus@cityandhackneyph.hackney.gov.uk with ‘Population Health Fellow 2025 application’ in the subject line.