Healthcare Scientist Advanced

Healthcare Scientist Advanced

About the Organisation:
Public Health Scotland is Scotland’s lead national agency for improving and protecting the health and wellbeing of all of Scotland’s people. Our vision is of a Scotland where everybody thrives. Our focus is on increasing healthy life expectancy and reducing premature mortality. To do this, we use data, intelligence and a place based approach to lead and deliver Scotland’s public health priorities.

The role of the Clinical and Protecting Health Directorate is to protect the people of Scotland from infectious and environmental hazards; enable high-quality clinical and public health knowledge, research and innovation; and change clinical and public health practice by using audits at a national and local level.

The posts:
The Clinical and Protecting Health Directorate is seeking to appoint highly motivated and dynamic Healthcare Scientists. The post-holders will work closely with clinical, scientific, and analytical staff as part of the Clinical and Protecting Health Directorate to contribute to PHS intelligence surveillance, research and development opportunities.

They will work with a range of policy makers and public health/health protection service providers and stakeholders across all sectors in Scotland and beyond. The current priorities for the posts are:

• Scottish Vaccination and Immunisation Programme (SVIP)
• Respiratory Surveillance
• Gastro-intestinal and Zoonoses (GIZ)
• Field Epidemiology Team (FET)

There are currently a number of posts to be filled, should additional vacancies occur within 6 months, candidates who were not successful at this time, but appointable at interview, may be contacted within this time period to be offered a post.

Location and working pattern:
The post will be based in Glasgow or Edinburgh. PHS operate a hybrid working model with a mixture of working at home and days in the office each week.

There will be an expectation to travel to local areas for some meetings and events.

It is a condition of this employment that you must live and remain a resident within the UK for the post in which you will be employed with PHS.

This is a full time permanent post at 37.5 hours per week.

During times of public health emergency, or other urgent business need, you may be required on a temporary basis to work your normal contracted working hours over 7 days including weekends, to meet the needs of the service.

Salary placement will start at the bottom point of the scale unless individuals have previous NHS experience.

Benefits:
Our benefits package includes pension scheme, comprehensive range of work life balance policies, occupational health services, learning resource centres and discounted leisure, financial and shopping benefits.

Further information:
Further information on PHS is available from: https://publichealthscotland.scot
For an informal discussion on the post, please contact Alistair.Smith3@phs.scot
Closing date for completed applications is Thursday 8th June

Please note that the majority of correspondence is sent by e-mail only, so please check your e-mail regularly (including junk folders).

Public Health Scotland is an equal opportunities employer and as such guarantees to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies