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Job reference: 105487
Salary: Band 8A (£50,965 - £55,016)
Job closing date: 20/07/2022
Job Type: Administrative Services
Location: Law House
Employment type: Permanent
Hours Per Week: 37.5
Job posted date: 30/06/2022
Employer (NHS Board): NHS Lanarkshire
Department: Health Improvement

Job Advert

There is an exciting opportunity for a Public Health Specialist to join the team at Law House working Mon-Fri on a permanent basis.

The post holder will provide leadership around strategy, management of specific staff working on agreed programmes, along with management support to the locality teams. This post will support the HSCPs Locality Planning Groups and contribute to the delivery of the ambitions set out in the respective Strategic Commissioning Plans and Our Health Together (NHSL Health Plan in development). Provide strategic advice on the development of public health, health improvement and inequalities policies and plan, support, facilitate and monitor progress on public health and health improvement activities across Lanarkshire.  To work in partnership to improve the life circumstances and lifestyles of the people of Lanarkshire.

The interviews will be held on the 12th of August 2022.


Informal enquiries regarding the post will be welcomed by gillian.lindsay@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

If you have any queries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please contact recruitment.lanarkshire@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

Please note: we anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the advert once a sufficient amount of applications are received.  Therefore, please make sure you complete and submit your application at an early stage.

‘In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

*Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.’



Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for an interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.

NHS Lanarkshire has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK. This permission is without exception granted by UK Visas and Immigrations. We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category. Candidates who require a Certificate of Sponsorship can access further information at www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk. Skilled worker Visa and all current immigration rules are available at www.gov.uk


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