Consultant in Public Health Medicine

Consultant in Public Health Medicine (CPHM)/Consultant in Public Health (CPH)

NHS Lanarkshire - NHSL HQ Kirklands

As organisational direction re-focuses on ‘business as normal’ post-pandemic, the core responsibilities of this role (Healthcare Public Health Services) will have a specific focus on Health Intelligence. The post-holder’s roles and responsibilities in this area will contribute significantly to NHS Lanarkshire’s Strategic Plan and its implementation. The post-holder will bring clarity of purpose to the team, directorate, and organisation, to enable consistency in values-based Public Health practice. The post-holder will have a varied job plan and will be flexible according to the needs of the Directorate, providing expert Public Health advice particularly around evidence for action to acute, community, Local Authority and third sector services.

The post-holder must be registered on the Specialist Register of the General Medical Council in Public Health, or on the UK Public Health (Specialist) Register (or a Specialty Registrar in Public Health, who is within 6 months of gaining their Certificate of Completion of Training). This post is permanent in nature and for 37.5 hours per week (AfC) / 40 hours per week (Medical).

It is a requirement of the post that the post-holder take part in on-call arrangements for communicable disease control/health protection. The current rota is 1 in 7.5 (prospective). The post holder is required to have sufficient training and experience to be a “competent person” under the Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act, 2008.

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For any application queries, please contact Nicole Hetherington, Senior HR Assistant 01698 754350 or via medical.dentalconsultant@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

Informal enquiries regarding this post will be welcomed by Prof Josephine Pravinkumar, Director of Public Health & Health Policy, on 01698 752952.

Interview date: 7th July 2023.

‘In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

• Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.’

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