Consultant in Public Health/Consultant in Public Health Medicine in Bromley

Salary: MG3 (81,000-101,000) Permanent, Full-time Bromley Civic Centre/Hybrid Working Ref: AAC Closing date: Tuesday 1st December 2026 Interviews: Wednesday 16th December 2026

You will provide professional public health leadership and expertise to the Council, the ICB and other stakeholders in the following key areas of Public Health practice: 0-19 Public Health Nursing, child death review function, drug and alcohol prevention programmes for children and young people. You must have a GMC, GDC, or UKPHR Public Health specialist registration or be eligible for registration within six months of interview. MFPH by examination, by exemption or by assessment. Inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List/UK Voluntary Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialists, or be eligible for registration within six months of interview. If included in the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List in a specialty other than public health medicine/dental public health, candidates must have equivalent training and/or appropriate experience of public health medicine practice. Applicants must meet minimum CPD requirements (i.e. be up to date) in accordance with Faculty of Public Health requirements or other recognised body.

Main duties of the job:

• You will be expected to have the skills and experience to lead across the full spectrum of public health and hold a work plan with specific lead areas of responsibility.
• You will carry important leadership responsibilities for key areas both within the Council and externally.
• You will need to be a strong team player and will have direct responsibility for two members of staff and be an authorised budget holder.
• You will have responsibility for development, implementation and delivery of national, regional and local policies, developing inter-agency and interdisciplinary strategic plans and programmes.

About us:

This is an exciting opportunity to join the London Borough of Bromley Public Health Department as a Consultant in Public Health. This post is a replacement post. Bromley is a borough in south-east London, with a population of 330,000. We are a relatively small but close-knit team, and we work in an integrated way across the Council and the ICB. We have fostered good relationships with colleagues within the Council, the NHS and also across the South East London. We are forces family friendly and are part of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme (Gold Award). We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners. We are committed to achieving equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and as a disability confident committed employer we encourage applications from people with disabilities. As part of this commitment, we will consider reasonable adjustment to support disability employment. We offer a generous package including competitive pay, career average pension scheme, flexible working practices and the Bromley employee benefits scheme; Cycle2Work, Salary Sacrifice Lease Car, Technology Scheme, GymFlex and a wide range of local and national discounts.

Job responsibilities:

• The post is responsible for covering a portfolio of specialist public health functions:
• Strategic leadership of all children public health for the department, working with colleagues and key partners such as SEL ICB to implement national strategies.
• Provide strategic leadership for the 0-19 Public Health Nursing services, including commissioning and monitoring performance and budget.
• Leading the child death review function, including chairing the Child Death Oversight Panel.
• Working with colleagues in the public health intelligence team to produce a Childrens Joint Strategic Needs Assessment every two years and ensure surveillance of child health in the borough.
• Strategic leadership and oversight of universal drug and alcohol prevention programmes for children and young people.
• Oversight of antenatal and newborn screening.
• Commissioning and oversight of child oral health services.
• Commissioning and oversight of childhood obesity services.
• Public health input to child safeguarding.
• Public health input to children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.
• Public Health input to ICB commissioning of maternity services.
• Deputise for the Director of Public Health as necessary.
• Support the London-wide and SE London approach to specific joint programmes of work where relevant to their expertise.
• Work closely with other teams in the Public Health team to deliver substance misuse, health protection and sexual health services to children and young people in Bromley and the department wide Public Health in the Community Programme.
• Provide expert public health advice to Local Authority commissioners, including Public Health commissioners and undertake direct commissioning and procurement where relevant.
• Taking responsibility for the training obligations of the directorate by supervising and supporting Public Health and GP registrars on placement within the department in liaison with other senior colleagues.
• Support the Director of Public Health in the provision of expert public health advice to the Council, SEL ICB and partner agencies as required; presenting at meetings and attending the SEL ICB and Council meetings and committees as required.

Professional obligations:

• Participate in the organisations staff appraisal scheme and quality improvement programme, and ensure appraisal and development of any staff for which s/he is responsible.
• Contribute actively to the training programme for Foundation Year Doctors / Speciality Registrars in Public Health and Las management trainees as appropriate, and to the training of practitioners and primary care professionals within the locality.
• Undertake an annual professional appraisal including completion of a programme of CPD, in accordance with Faculty of Public Health requirements, or other recognised body, and undertake revalidation, audit or other measures required to remain on the GMC/GDC Specialist Register or the UK Public Health (Specialist) Register or other specialist register as appropriate.
• It is a duty of a health professional to foster scientific integrity, freedom of scientific publications, and freedom of debate on health matters, and public health professionals have a further responsibility to promote good governance and open government.
• In agreement with the DPH contribute as an appraiser to the professional appraisal system.
• Practise in accordance with all relevant sections of the General Medical Councils Good Medical Practice (if medically qualified) and the Faculty of Public Healths Good Public Health Practice and UKPHR requirements.
• Contribute to professional leadership within the health system.
• Public health practice must be carried out within the ethical framework of the health professions.
• The post holder will be expected to maintain effective, courageous, and responsible public health advocacy.

Person Specification:

• Experience:
• Essential Delivery of successful change management programmes across organizational boundaries.
• Media experience demonstrating delivery of effective health behaviour or health promotion messages.
• Experience of using complex information to explain public health issues to a range of audiences.
• Knowledge and skills:
• Essential Skills Strategic thinker with proven leadership skills and operational nous.
• Able to demonstrate and motivate organisations to contribute to improving the publics health and wellbeing through mainstream activities and within resources.
• Ability to lead and manage the response successfully in unplanned and unforeseen circumstances.
• Analytical skills able to utilize both qualitative (including health economics) and quantitative information.