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NHS Lothian
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To this end, NHS Lothian welcomes applications from all sections of society.
Applicants must have full GMC Registration, a license to practise and eligible for inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register. Those trained in the UK should have evidence of higher specialist training leading to CCT or be within 6 months of confirmed entry from the date of interview. CESR (Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration) route doctors are only eligible to apply for a substantive consultant post once CESR is awarded. Non-UK applicants must demonstrate equivalent training.
Organisation: NHS Lothian (lead employer) and Public Health Scotland
Department: NHS Lothian Public Health and Health Policy Directorate; Public Health Scotland: Clinical and Protecting Health Directorate
Job title: Consultant in Public Health / Consultant in Public Health Medicine (Permanent)
Main bases: Edinburgh (NHS Lothian) and Edinburgh/Glasgow (Public Health Scotland)
About the Post
We are a looking for a forward-thinking Consultant for a joint post between NHS Lothian’s Directorate of Public Health and Health Policy (0.5 WTE) and Public Health Scotland’s Clinical and Protecting Health Directorate (0.5 WTE). The substantive employer will be NHSL who will provide a permanent full-time contract with a rolling Service Level Agreement with PHS. Full-time posts currently total 10 programmed activities per week; other, more flexible arrangements such as part-time, job share etc. will be considered. Both NHSL and PHS components of the role contain no routine on-call commitments.
In NHSL your focus will be leading place-based inequalities work in East Lothian, delivering approaches to health inequalities, health intelligence, public health improvement, and health and social care service improvement with community planning partners in East Lothian. East Lothian is home to just over 112,000 of Lothian’s 900,000 residents. As a senior member of our team, you will help shape and lead our partnership work in East Lothian, while also sharing and learning from others across Lothian and nationally. In addition to place-based work you will be the lead for at least one public health priority across the Lothian region and provide senior leadership across the Directorate; with detailed remit being subject to job planning discussions, considering skill mix across the team.
In PHS your role will involve working in the Population Health and Healthcare Consultant team, taking national evidence and intelligence to inform the Population Health agenda across Lothian, and bringing back learning of challenges and what works locally to develop and share nationally. You will provide oversight and public health leadership in an area of interest, such as healthy weight. You will also lead on the Scottish Public Health Observatory (ScotPHO) collaboration – providing advice and direction to the ScotPHO team and leading on future developments.
This post is an ideal opportunity for a candidate who can lead a team, inspire partners and demonstrate the importance of a health in all policies approach to addressing population health challenges and public service reform. A key skill set will be relationship building and the ability to build alliances to influence policy and decision-making with key partners. Line management for the post-holder will be with the Lead Consultant, Population Health Division (NHS Lothian) and for the PHS component of their work, the Head of Clinical, Public Health Intelligence and Research, PHS.
About NHS Lothian
NHS Lothian is an integrated teaching NHS Board in Scotland providing primary, community, mental health and hospital services. NHS Lothian employs approximately 26,000 staff and provides services for the second largest residential population in Scotland, around 900,000 people. The main departmental office base for NHSL is at Waverley Gate, located in central Edinburgh with excellent travel links to surrounding areas.
About Public Health Scotland
PHS is a new organisation between the Scottish Government and Local Government, working in partnership, to provide leadership to improve and protect the health and wellbeing of the people of Scotland. PHS launched 1st April 2020 with the formal status of a National Special Health Board employing around 1100 people, and with an annual budget of around £60 million, Public Health Scotland will provide authoritative information and services to support people and communities across Scotland. The main bases of work for PHS are at Gyle Square, Edinburgh / Central Quay or Boswell House, Glasgow.
Both NHS Lothian and PHS will consider hybrid/agile working in line with relevant organisational policy.
More detailed departmental and specialty information can be found in the job description available via email address / link below.
If you are interested and would like an informal discussion or to request any further details, please contact: Philip.Conaglen@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk (Lead Consultant, Population Health Division)
If viewing from an external site, please visit https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk for a job pack detailing the minimum requirements for this post and details of how to apply.
We cannot accept CV’s as a form of application and only a completed online application form will be accepted. Personal information will not be sent with the application for short listing. The application form will be identified by the candidate number only to ensure that all applicants are treated equally.
***PLEASE NOTE: We cannot accept late applications so please ensure your application is submitted early***
Interview Date: to be confirmed