Rachel Wells

Head of School for Public Health Speciality Training Programme in London,Senior Public Health Consultant leads, education&training, CYP, special interest poverty and migrant health.

United Kingdom

About

I have worked across local government, regional NHS structures and national government departments. Have experience of policy development at national level, working as a senior public health consultant and managing transition between organisations. Have held a wide range of public health portfolios with a broad range of settings, both nationally and regionally. Have strategic knowledge and experience of workforce development,Specialty Training and development a wider public health workforce. Have held a broad portfolio across all areas of public health and have experience of working in challenging circumstances.

Experience

  • Head of School for Public Health, London and KSS; Head of the Academy of Public Health at NHSE
    Oct 2018 - Present · 7 yrs 10 mos

    Head of School role for the London and KSS speciality training programme for public health. management of the school and the faculty, academic links, negotiation with lead employers and development of the vision for the school moving into 2020 and beyond. Head of Academy is a unique role with a focus on the wider public health workforce. the academy leads on a range of areas with a view to developing relationships and convening leaders to ensure the public health workforce is part of the transformation agenda and integrated into future planning.

  • Barnet Council (17 yrs 3 mos)
    • Consultant in Public Health
      Apr 2018 - Present · 8 yrs 4 mos

      Portfolio includes lead for Healthy Places, HIAP - including commercial determinants of health, Food Poverty, Regeneration and Economic Development, Planning and local plan development, Consultant lead for PH migrant heakth, suicide prevention andbpubluc mental health. Also work closely with the neighbourhood agenda which is a developing space. Educational Supervisor for trainees supporting Barnet as a training location for PH trainees, GP trainees and National Local Government Management Trainees. I am also Head of School for Public Health Specialty Training, leading the development of high quality training offers for London, management of the team supporting registrars, maintaining high level knowledge of training and post graduate education in public health. I also am part of the London Public Health Workforce Collaborative looking at the wider public health workforce including practitioners and portfolio applicants.

    • Consultant in Public Health
      May 2009 - Present · 17 yrs 3 mos

  • Consultant in Public Health at London Borough of Harrow
    Apr 2013 - Oct 2018 · 5 yrs 7 mos

  • Consultant in Public Health at Barnet Primary Care Trust
    May 2009 - Apr 2013 · 4 yrs

  • Consultant in public health/co-chair at North London cancer network
    2010 - 2012 · 2 yrs