Public Health Consultant

Job Title: Consultant in Public Health
Location: Dudley, West Midlands
Salary: Competitive (Up to £621 per day)
Contract Type: Temporary / Contract

Myn is recruiting on behalf of our long-term client for an experienced Public Health Consultant. This is a high-impact role where your expertise will drive successful change programmes and shape effective health promotion across the region.

What You’ll Do

• Lead Change: Deliver successful change management programmes across organisational boundaries.
• Media Excellence: Use your media experience to craft and deliver effective health behaviour and promotion messages.
• Strategic Influence: Work within a political system with professionalism, regardless of personal affiliations.
• Policy & Practice: Advise on and implement strategies that improve public health outcomes.
• Quality Improvement: Develop clinical quality assurance, evaluations, and evidence-based public health practice.
• Collaboration: Engage with senior stakeholders, local and national government, and key partners across health and social care.
• Data Analysis: Utilise both qualitative and quantitative data, including health economics, to inform strategic decisions.

What We’re Looking For
Qualifications & Training:

• Must be included in the GMC Full and Specialist Register with a licence to practise, or on the UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialists.
• If you are in a specialty other than public health medicine/dental public health, you must have equivalent training and/or appropriate experience in public health practice.
• Public health specialty registrars not yet on the register must provide verifiable evidence that they are within six months of gaining entry.
• If UK trained, you must hold a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) or be within six months of its award; non-UK trained applicants must show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT.
• Must meet minimum CPD requirements in line with Faculty of Public Health or another recognised body, with MFPH (by examination, exemption, or assessment) or equivalent.
• A Masters in Public Health or equivalent is required.

Experience:

• Proven track record in delivering successful change management programmes.
• Demonstrable media experience in delivering effective health behaviour or health promotion messages.
• Experience working within and navigating a political system is essential.

Knowledge:

• In-depth understanding of the health and care system and its links with local and national government.
• Thorough knowledge of methods for clinical quality assurance, quality improvement, evaluations, and evidence-based public health practice.
• Strong grasp of the interfaces between health, social care, and key partners dealing with wider determinants of health.
• Clear understanding of the public sector duty and inequality duty as they apply to public health practice.

Practical Skills:

• Ability to design, develop, interpret, and implement strategies and policies.
• A strategic thinker with proven leadership skills and operational acumen.
• Capable of motivating organisations to enhance public health and wellbeing through mainstream activities within allocated resources.
• Skilled in leading and managing responses in unplanned and unforeseen circumstances.
• Analytical skills to utilise both qualitative (including health economics) and quantitative data.

Personal Qualities:

• Strong knowledge of Equality & Diversity issues.
• Able to influence senior decision-makers, including directors and CEOs.
• Proven ability to lead teams and contribute effectively as part of a team.
• Commitment to working within a political system, regardless of personal affiliations.

Why Join Us?

• Impactful Work: Shape public health policy and practice that makes a real difference in people’s lives.
• Dynamic Environment: Work on cutting-edge projects with multi-agency partners in a forward-thinking public health setting.
• Professional Growth: Enjoy robust training, continuous professional development, and a supportive network.
• Competitive Remuneration: Attractive hourly rate, with opportunities to further your career in public health.

Ready to drive change and improve public health in Dudley?
Apply now and join a team committed to excellence, innovation, and making a lasting impact.

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