Decision details

Approval has been given by the Director of Public Health to transfer £110,000 funding from the West Yorkshire Mental Health Services Collaborative that the Council are holding for a regional Consultant in Public Health post that will be managed and hosted by LYPFT.

The Council is the sponsor hosting regional funding as part of a regional West Yorkshire Mental Health Services Collaborative in order to fund a Regional Consultant in Public Health to lead this work, the post has now been filled and is being hosted by Leeds and York Partnership Foundation Trust (LYPFT) therefore the funding needs to be transferred to the host organisation on behalf of the regional agreement.

This Consultant in Public Health post is for a 12 month fixed term period/secondment opportunity.

The Collaborative is made up of the following organisations:
• Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust
• LYPFT
• Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust
• South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

The main objectives for the post are:

• Lead work within the Mental Health, Learning Disability & Autism (MHLDA) provider collaborative (and the wider ICS programme) to model overall future demand for MHLDA services as a result of the pandemic.
• Play a lead role in taking forward actions in response to the West Yorkshire & Harrogate BAME review; co-ordinating and measure progress on reducing inequalities in mental health by ethnicity.
• Play a lead role in supporting providers of care, Primary Care Networks and local authorities to consider the changes in awareness and understanding needed to reduce the inequality in life expectancy faced by people with a learning disability and/or autism.
• In addition to supporting the delivery of actions identified in the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Mental Health Concordat.