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Consultant in Veterinary Public Health
About the Organisation:
Public Health Scotland launched 1st April 2020 as a national health board, employing around 1200 people, and with an annual budget of around £101 million. Public Health Scotland wants to see a Scotland where everybody thrives, a Scotland where life expectancy improves and the difference in life expectancy between our poorest and wealthiest areas gets smaller.
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 Post:
This post is within Clinical and Protecting Health Directorate, which protects the people of Scotland from infectious and environmental hazards; enables high-quality clinical and public health knowledge, carries our research, delivers on innovation; and improves and changes clinical and public health practice by using audits at a national and local level.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Consultant in Veterinary Public Health to work across the in the Clinical and Protecting Health Directorate working closely with the Gastrointestinal and Zoonosis team and respiratory team with responsibility for One Health.
Working closely with key stakeholders and colleagues nationally, regionally, and locally you will identify, develop, facilitate, and embed the national and corporate priorities recognising the need for collective action to reduce health inequality gaps that persist within our communities. The successful candidate will provide leadership, management and expert specialist advice on issues relating to Veterinary Public Health, evaluation of effectiveness of interventions and improve outcomes for people in communities and develop a culture that will focus on impact and solutions.
You will work with colleagues across Scotland linking into Scottish networking/co-ordination e.g. Scottish Health Protection Network.
You will use an evidence-based approach to inform the work of Public Health Scotland and their partners and have the skills to work with partners to drive forward change.
The post will report directly to Head of Health Protection (Infection Services).
The Candidate:
We are looking for a Consultant Veterinary to provide at a senior level strategic leadership in veterinary public health to PHS’s multidisciplinary teams working on zoonoses and One Health.
You will have the ability to prioritise your own work effectively and be able to direct activities of/to others working with a range of stakeholders in a politically sensitive and changing environment.
Candidates must have veterinary degree registerable with the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons with evidence of further specialist qualification in veterinary public health along with postgraduate qualification of relevance to public health or equivalent experience.
Location and Working Pattern:
The post will be based in Gyle Square, Edinburgh or Central Quay, Glasgow.
Please note that PHS is currently in the process of relocating from Central Quay, Glasgow to Bothwell Street, Glasgow from early 2024.
Work Pattern - Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week. However PHS supports flexible working and we are happy to discuss requests for alternative working patterns.
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, in order to meet the needs of the service.
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.
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. Click here to view the full range of the PHS Employee Benefits.
Further Information:
For an informal discussion on the post, please contact Jim McMenamin, Head of Health Protection (Infection Services) at jim.mcmenamin@phs.scot
Closing date for completed applications is 24 March 2024.
Further information on PHS is available from: www.publichealthscotland.scot
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.