Consultant in Public Health Medicine/Health Protection

Consultant in Public Health Medicine/Health Protection

Location: PHE Porton Down, Salisbury

Permanent, Full-time, 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) per week (part-time, job share or flexible working will be considered)

Public Health England provides strategic leadership and vision for protecting and improving the nation’s health. Its ambition is to lead nationally and enable locally a transformation in the health expectations of all people in England regardless of where they live and the circumstance of their birth. It will achieve this through the application of research, knowledge and skills.

Public Health England is an executive agency of the Department of Health. It will be a distinct delivery organisation with operational autonomy to advise and support Government, Local Authorities and the NHS in a professionally independent manner. You will work as part of a team of Senior Medical staff in the Emergency Response Department to provide additional resilience in the provision of both public health and medical/ clinical advice to a range of internal and external stakeholders, including communities and individuals, in the areas of emergency preparedness, resilience and response.

This post will have a particular focus on Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) threats and the public health response to them. The post will report to the Director of Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response (Interim). Candidates must be included on the GMC’s Specialist Register. The successful candidate will be appointed to the point of the consultant medical salary scale for England appropriate to their years of seniority.

PHE employees who are at-risk or in the redeployment pool are given prior consideration for any suitable alternative employment.

Prospective candidates are invited to contact Professor John Simpson, on: 01980 612903 to discuss the post or arrange a visit.

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