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UKHSA North West Region is made up of health protection consultants and practitioners, surveillance scientists, emergency preparedness professionals and business operations staff, operating from three sites.
We are recruiting enthusiastic, motivated Consultants in Health Protection: to work in our Cheshire and Merseyside team. These are key posts in our health protection workforce enabling us to deliver our remit to protect the public’s health from infectious diseases and other public health hazards through provision of a 24/7 acute health protection service.
Your contractual and operational base will be Cunard Building, Liverpool All roles include hybrid working that allows for staff who can operate remotely at home, to fulfil their role and responsibilities in line with the team and UKHSAs policies and guidance. You will be expected to travel to any of our North West sites in Liverpool, Manchester and Preston, providing leadership and development to the service.
Job description
As part of the North West Health Protection Team and in collaboration with relevant people in UKHSA Field Services and Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards Directorates, and Local Authority Directors of Public Health in the North West, the Consultant in Health Protection will contribute to the provision of specialist advice and support locally to local authorities, hospitals, and primary care.
The consultant will contribute to the investigation and management of a full range of health protection incidents (including outbreaks of diseases like meningitis, and food poisoning), and will contribute to surveillance, co-ordination, support and monitoring of the local implementation of local, regional and key national programmes and place-based partnership working.
The post-holder will also be responsible for dealing with environmental public health incidents, situations, and other health protection emergencies, in collaboration with other members of the Health Protection Team as appropriate.
Person specification
The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and maintaining close working relationships both internally and externally with a whole range of partner organisations. Working closely with key partners to ensure delivery of high-quality surveillance, response, and support systems. In addition, they will contribute and lead on local and national priorities including contribution to wider public health initiatives consistent with the UKHSA delivery model and integrated working.
They will have the ability to lead individuals and teams, engage with staff at all levels, and value diversity across the whole team will also be a key requisite of the role.
The post is subject to the core competencies as set out by the Faculty of Public Health for Consultant appointments and the post holder will be expected to demonstrate expertise in all of them (Appendix A).
Please see the attached Job Description & Person Specification outlining full responsibilities of the role.
Benefits
- 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%
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At the United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA) our mission is to provide health security for the nation by protecting from infectious disease and external hazards. We are a trusted source of advice to government and to the public, focusing on reducing inequalities in the way different communities experience and are impacted by infectious disease, environmental hazards, and other threats to health.
Our mission is challenging, innovative and in the spotlight. We will work to ensure our people have the diverse skills, experiences and backgrounds we need to thrive, that our employees are representative of the communities we serve and feel valued and enabled to play their part in delivering our work.
Creating our working culture is an ongoing process which we are developing by listening and learning together, hearing and acting upon diverse voices and opinions to develop a common sense of identity and effective ways of working.
Option 3 External – Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants).
Applicants are strongly advised to use the criteria in the Person Specification of the Job Description as sub-headings in their application to make it clear how they meet each of the selection criteria.
The successful candidate will be appointed to the point of the Consultant salary scale appropriate to their years of seniority or if from a background other than medicine to NHS Agenda for Change Band 8d.
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
UK Health Security Agency promoted diversity in the workplace and is an Equal Opportunities employer.
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Job contact :
- Name : Evdokia Dardamissis, Cheshire and Merseyside Head of Health Protection
- Email : evdokia.dardmissis@ukhsa.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : scs.mdrecruitment@ukhsa.gov.uk
