Specialty Doctor Public Health

Job Description

Specialty Doctor Public Health NHS Lanarkshire – NHSL HQ Kirklands

This post is based within the multi-disciplinary Directorate of Public Health. It provides medical capacity within the Public Health Directorate to support the Health Protection Team and vaccination and immunisation services. The role encompasses all aspects of Health Protection with a focus on complex immunisation clinical assessment, expert vaccination advice, reactive immunisation interventions during incidents or outbreaks of vaccine preventable disease, and tuberculosis (TB) services in particular.

The post is full time, but applications are also welcomed for part time work.

Applicants are encouraged to propose additional Service Package Allocation (SPA) time. In addition to one PA for Non DCC/SPA activities, the Board supports proposals for extra SPA time for individuals with well developed ideas for improving services who demonstrate a commitment to quality improvement, patient safety (including human factors training), medical education, research and development, or acting as an appraiser.

Applicants who wish to commence on more than one PA for SPA duties should discuss proposals with the Recruitment Lead or Service Manager, who will consider requests in line with the successful candidate’s professional and service requirements.

Please note that interview dates for this position are not advertised at the time of posting.

NHS Lanarkshire commit to a workforce that reflects the diverse makeup of our society. We value individuals who thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced status or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

Care experienced applicants are those who lived or have lived with foster parent or kinship carers, or who lived or have lived in a residential children’s setting or secure unit.

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 is granted by the UK Border Agency. 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 on the UK Border Agency’s new points based system that governs work for individuals from outside the EEA at the UK Border Agency website.