Consultant in Global Public Health

This consultant post sits in UKHSA's Global division on the PAVISE project, a three-year violence prevention initiative within the UK Overseas Territories Health Security Programme. The postholder would advise Overseas Territory governments and health systems on violence surveillance, prevention and workforce development, and lead technical outputs across workstreams. The role is hybrid, with at least 60% of hours on site at the London HQ, and includes supervising public health registrars on placement. Candidates need MFPH and a specialist register entry, with GMC or UKPHR registration or eligibility within six months of interview.

What the job involves

• Provide expert public health advice and technical assistance to UKOT governments and health systems on violence prevention, including violence against women and girls
• Lead delivery of technical outputs across assigned project workstreams
• Support development, co-design and implementation of evidence-based public health approaches to preventing violence and reducing its impacts
• Contribute to policy frameworks, guidance, standards and implementation tools
• Support development and implementation of violence surveillance systems across UKOTs, including epidemiological profiles, public health intelligence products and needs assessments
• Support UKOTs to adopt public health approaches through strategic engagement and technical advice
• Facilitate and contribute to multi-agency workshops and partnership events with health, policing, education, safeguarding and community partners
• Support development of sustainable public health capabilities within health systems and Ministries of Health
• Provide mentoring and supervision to project staff, trainees and public health registrars, including those on placement with UKHSA Global
• Support design and implementation of project evaluation frameworks and monitoring systems
• Take part in mandatory training, including fire safety and information governance
• Agree and act on own development needs through appraisal and an individual development plan

Qualifications

• MFPH by examination, exemption or assessment, with up to date CPD under Faculty of Public Health requirements
• CCT, or within six months of award by interview; non-UK trained applicants must show equivalence to the UK CCT

Registration & licences

• GMC full and specialist register with licence to practise, or UKPHR for public health specialists, or eligible for either within six months of interview
• Signed evidence of specialist register application or, for registrars, entry within six months; equivalent training and experience if on a register in another specialty

Experience

• Significant strategic experience in public health approaches to violence prevention
• Staff management, training and mentoring, and practical experience of facilitating change
• Working with other agencies, violence prevention initiatives and organisations

Skills & knowledge

• Leading strategic development of a violence prevention project across organisational and territory or country boundaries, with strategic thinking and negotiation
• Excellent oral and written communication, including presentations and dealing with the media
• Interpersonal, motivational and influencing skills, and responding well to unplanned circumstances
• Analytical skills with qualitative and quantitative data, epidemiological methods and statistics
• Designing, interpreting and implementing policy, and managing projects, resources, staff and budgets
• Knowledge of violence as a public health issue, public health practice, health economics, evaluation, NHS and local government structures, health and social care interfaces, and the public sector equality duty

Checks & eligibility

• Disclosure and barring check and Basic Personnel Security Screening

Other

• Practise in line with GMC Good Medical Practice and Faculty of Public Health Good Public Health Practice
• Self-awareness, emotional intelligence, cultural competence and appreciation of diversity, including bias

Nice to have

• Experience of global health projects
• Scientific publications and presentations at conferences or seminars
• Training and mentoring skills
• Knowledge of grant development and research methodology

What's offered

• Flexible working through a hybrid working model
• Training events and an individual development plan
• Annual pay award for the role and terms
• Starting salary principles for transfers or promotions from government, NHS or local authority
• Co-location at the core HQ with other government departments, including DHSC

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