Senior Medical Advisor and Consultant in Public Health


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Details

Reference number

305343

Salary

£88,364 – £119,133
Pro rata (per annum)

Job grade

Other
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Contract type

Permanent

Type of role

Health Adviser
Health Professionals
Medical
Other

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

Number of jobs available

3

Contents

London, Hybrid

Job summary

The Public Health Clinical Response (PHCR) Division sits in UKHSA’s Clinical and Public Health Group. PHCR division includes Senior Medical Advisors, Consultants in Public Health, the UKHSA guidance team and an evidence review team, and works across UKHSA including close working with Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response (EPRR) division. The Senior Medical Advisors are critical in providing public health clinical advice and leadership to enable successful delivery of UKHSA’s work to keep the public safe from public health hazards and threats.

Job description

The Senior Medical Advisor will work as part of a team of senior staff in PHCR to provide public health and clinical advice to internal and external stakeholders in the areas of EPRR and CBRN.

The key elements of the service are to:

  • Review and analyse clinical and other intelligence relating to CBRN threats and incidents
  • Work closely with others in the wider CBRN community to interpret the threat to the UK and provide Senior Medical Advisor leadership and advice to partner agencies including other government departments
  • Provide public health /medical /clinical input into the work of other parts of UKHSA, DHSC and other government departments, other agencies and organisations
  • Provide Senior Medical Advisor advice and leadership to UKHSA’s response to incidents
  • Participate in the on-call rota for the duty Senior Medical Advisor
  • Contribute to the management of staff as agreed
  • Promote professional standards including training, research and audit

Person specification

Inclusion in the GMC Full and Specialist Register with a license to practice (or be eligible for registration within six months of interview)

If included in the GMC Specialist Register/ in a specialty other than public health medicine, candidates must have equivalent training and/or appropriate experience of public health practice

Public Health Specialty Registrar applicants who are not yet on the GMC Specialist Register must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they are within 6 months of gaining entry at the date of interview; all other applicants must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they have applied for inclusion in the GMC

The successful candidate will be appointed to the point of the Consultant salary scale appropriate to their years of seniority.

Please see attached job description.

  • Learning and development tailored to your role
  • An environment with flexible working options
  • A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
  • A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Selection process details

STAGE 1 – APPLICATION & SIFT:

This vacancy will be assessed using a competency-based framework which will assess your Qualifications, knowledge and experience and / or skills and capabilities outlined in the person specification.

You will be required to complete an application form. You will also be asked to provide information within the ‘Employer/ Activity history’ section of the application form. This will be assessed in line with the advertised criteria.

As part of the application process you will be asked to provide a detailed personal statement / statement of suitability (max 1500 words) based on the essential criteria advertised. This should outline how you consider your skills, knowledge and experience meet the selection requirements. It should provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with particular reference to the person specification criteria outlined. 

Applicants are strongly advised to use the person specification section as sub-headings in the application to make it clear how you meet each of the selection criteria.

If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to a single video interview and assessment

STAGE 2 – INTERVIEW

All candidates who are successful at the sift stage will progress to an interview and will be assessed on the essential criteria as advertised.

Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants).

UK Health Security Agency promoted diversity in the workplace and is an Equal Opportunities employer

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

  • UK nationals
  • nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
  • nationals of the Republic of Ireland
  • nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
  • relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
  • relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
  • certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available.
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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

  • Name : Ruth Milton
  • Email : ruth.milton@ukhsa.gov.uk

Recruitment team

  • Email : SCS.MDrecruitment@ukhsa.gov.uk

Attachments

SMA JD 200523 (2) (002) Opens in new window (docx, 134kB)
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