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About
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) will be responsible for planning, preventing and responding to external health threats, and providing intellectual, scientific and operational leadership at national and local level, as well as on the global stage. UKHSA will ensure the nation can respond quickly and at greater scale to deal with pandemics and future threats.
Consultant in Public Health, Centre for Climate and Health Security
Closed for applications on: 11-Jan-2023 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 11-Jan-2023 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Any UKHSA site
- Town
- National
- Postcode
- SW1P 3JR
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
Salary
- Salary
- £79,592 - £119,133 per annum (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS Medical and Dental: Consultant or AfC Band 8d)
Specialty
- Main area
- Centre for Climate and Health Security
- Interview date
- 01/02/2023
The United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is a system leader for health security; taking action internationally to strengthen global health security, providing trusted advice to government and the public and reducing inequalities in the way different communities experience and are impacted by infectious disease, environmental hazards, and other threats to health.
UKHSA’s remit, as an agency with a global-to-local reach, is to protect the health of the nation from infectious diseases and other external threats to health. As the nation’s expert national health security agency UKHSA will:
- Prevent: anticipate threats to health and help build the nation’s readiness, defences and health security
- Detect: use cutting edge environmental and biological surveillance to proactively detect and monitor infectious diseases and threats to health
- Analyse: use world-class science and data analytics to assess and continually monitor threats to health, identifying how best to control and mitigate the risks
- Respond: take rapid, collaborative and effective actions nationally and locally to mitigate threats to health when they materialise
- Lead: lead strong and sustainable global, national, regional and local partnerships designed to save lives, protect the nation from public health threats and reduce inequalities.
Job overview
The role of the Public Health Consultant is to support the Deputy Director to establish the new Centre within UKHSA, the Centre for Climate and Health Security. The Centre is intended to help realise UKHSA’s ambitions to be a global leader in health security and tackle one of the major challenges that we face globally. The Centre will bring together multidisciplinary expertise, providing leadership across UKHSA and beyond, domestically and internationally, on the health security aspects of climate change, including mitigation and adaptation, and the interfaces with policy areas outside health security including natural resources, nutrition, and foreign and development policy.
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The postholder will provide public health leadership and ongoing support to the Centre for Climate and Health Security working to preparing UK local and national government to build capabilities to plan, mitigate and adapt to the future public health threats of climate change. The work will include supporting the Deputy Director to develop strategic partnerships with local, national and international organisations, academia, industry and research funding bodies to develop a world-class Centre of expertise in Climate and Health Security.
Working for our organisation
At the United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA) our mission is to provide health security for the nation by protecting from infectious disease and external hazards. We are a trusted source of advice to government and to the public, focusing on reducing inequalities in the way different communities experience and are impacted by infectious disease, environmental hazards, and other threats to health.
We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice, where Everyone Matters promoting equality of opportunity to actively encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce.
UKHSA ethos is to be an inclusive organisation for all our staff and stakeholders. To create, nurture and sustain an inclusive culture, where differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our workforce and wider communities. We do this through celebrating and protecting differences by removing barriers and promoting equity and equality of opportunity for all.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide public health advice on programmes, projects, interventions, policies, communication and training materials relating to climate and environment, including mitigation and adaptation domestically and globally
- To provide support to strengthen evaluation of interventions and policies in the Centre
- To ensure a focus on equity in the work of the Centre
- To maintain technical expertise and research commitments and support report writing and relevant peer review publications
- To provide input to policymakers in DHSC and other government departments as required
- To seek collaborations both nationally and internationally, including with health organisations, academia, industry and the public
- To engage with the NHS and wider public health system to ensure that the Division activities meet UKHSA public health requirements.
- To deliver reports and advice, utilising and interpreting highly complex data to support the delivery of UKHSA and Science group priorities
- To support the development of the workforce across the whole system, in line with UKHSA’s remit, to support capability and capacity, including technical and professional skills to meet the challenges involved in protecting and improving the public’s health
- To support programmes of research and evaluation that are aligned with the research priorities of UKHSA
- To support development and implementation of workforce strategies, including retention, recruitment and career development of staff
- Work with the Deputy Director to continually develop and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Centre
- Support the work of colleagues to identify and ensure the maintenance of business-critical activities, e.g., ensure that there are effective business continuity plans in place, and they are tested regularly
- Accountable for managing a dedicated budget
- To deputise for the Deputy Director when required
- To provide management of a small team of specialists
It is important that through your online application and Statement of Suitability you give evidence and examples of proven
experience to deliver against the criteria (see the job description and personal specification).
If you are shortlisted, you will be asked to attend a panel interview in order to have a more in-depth discussion of your previous experience and professional competence in relation to the criteria set out in the Person Specification.
For further information on the selection process, please refer to the attached Candidate Pack.
Expected Timeline:
Advert Close: 23:55 on 10 January 2023
Shortlist: w/c 11 January 2023
Interviews: w/c 01 February 2023
The UK Health Security Agency is committed to valuing diversity and promoting equality. We encourage and welcome applications from suitably qualified candidates from all backgrounds regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, and we particularly welcome applications from groups which are currently under-represented in the organisation.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Applicants are strongly advised to use the criteria in the Person Specification of the Job Description as sub-headings in their application to make it clear how they meet each of the selection criteria.
IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ
This is a Non-Reserved post under the Civil Service Nationality Rules. To be eligible for employment in the UK Civil Service applicants must meet the Civil Service Nationality Rules (CSNRs) which operate independently of and additionally to the Immigration Rules. Applicants must also meet necessary security and vetting requirements, along with any other relevant pre-employment checks.
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
For more information on job nationality requirements and the right to work in the UK, see the Civil Service Nationality rules (opens in a new window) and the UK Visas and Immigration rules (opens in a new window)
For posts on UKHSA Civil Service terms and conditions, new entrants to the Civil Service are expected to start on the minimum of the pay band. For existing Civil Servants and roles advertised across government, the rules of transfer apply, i.e., level transfers move on current salary or the pay range minimum, transfers on promotion move to new pay range minimum or receive a 10% increase. Either case is determined by whichever is the highest.
The Civil Service pay structure and progression is different from NHS Agenda for Change (AfC), most local authority pay grades and other systems that have annual pay increments. For further details, please refer to the Information Sheet- Starting Salaries & Benefits attachment.
For AfC or Medical/Dental posts, you must have the correct professional registration to be appointed. The pay will follow the AfC or Medical & Dental terms & conditions. You may be asked to provide evidence of previous service whilst we are conducting pre-employment checks to determine your starting salary.
For Temporary Appointments, if you are not currently a civil servant, you will take up the post on a Fixed Term appointment. If you are an existing Civil Servant, based outside of the UKHSA, you will take up the post as a loan. If you are an existing UKHSA member of staff, you will take up the post as either a level transfer or a temporary promotion as per the UKHSA’s Pay policy.
Given the nature of the work of the UKHSA, as a Category 1 responder under the Civil Contingencies Act, you may be required in an emergency, if deemed a necessity, to redeploy to another role at short notice. You may also be required to work at any other location, within reasonable travelling distance of your permanent home address, in line with the provisions set out in your contract of employment.
Late Applications will unfortunately not be considered.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. The law requires that selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's Recruitment Principles (attached as a supporting document).
If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, you should contact UKHSA Public Accountability Unit via email: [email protected] If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission: Visit the Civil Service Commission website here.
Reserve List - If more than the required number of suitable candidates pass the interview criteria, you may be kept on a reserve list for 12 months subject to your agreement. You may be contacted, in merit-order, if similar roles with closely matching essential criteria become available and the department choose to appoint from a reserve list.
Interview expenses will not be reimbursed.
UKHSA is required to check employment and/or education history covering three consecutive years. Please ensure you give details of at least two different referees, even if you were employed in one company for three years or more.
If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system. Please note, all communication regarding your application will be made via email, please ensure you check your junk/spam folders as emails are sometimes filtered there.
Any move to UKHSA from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/.
Benefits of working at UKHSA include:
- Generous annual leave:
-26 days for the first 5 years of continuous service
-28 days after 5 years of continuous service
-32 days after 10 years of continuous service
-Plus public holidays and one privilege day for the King’s birthday - Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions.
- Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme, season ticket advances and payroll giving.
- Access to a retail discounts and cashback site.
- We also promote flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours). UKHSA views flexible working as essential in enabling us to recruit and retain talented people, ensuring that they are able to enjoy a long-lasting career with us. All employees have the right to apply for flexible working and there are a range of options available including working from home, compressed hours and job sharing.
- We also offer a generous maternity/ paternity and adoption leave package.
Hybrid Working
UKHSA operates a hybrid working model where business needs allow. This provides us with greater flexibility about how and where we work, to get the best from our workforce.
As a hybrid worker, you will usually spend a minimum of 60% of your contracted hours (averaged over a month) working at one of UKHSA's locations (approximately 3 days a week pro rata) and the rest of your time working from home.
Disability Confident Scheme
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria at sift to ensure these candidates are invited to interview. If you wish to be included in this scheme please tick the box on your application form.
Reasonable Adjustments
The Civil Service is committed to making sure that our selection methods are fair to everyone.
To help you during the recruitment process, we will take into account any reasonable adjustments that could help you.
An adjustment is a change to the recruitment process or an adjustment at work.
This is separate to the Disability Confident Scheme.
If you need an adjustment to be made at any point during the recruitment process you should:
Contact the recruitment team in confidence as soon as possible to discuss your needs.
You can find out more information about reasonable adjustments across the Civil Service here: https://www.civil-service-careers.gov.uk/reasonable-adjustments/
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Qualification requirements: Master’s degree in Public Health or equivalent experience
- In line with legislation, inclusion in the GMC Full and Specialist Register with a license to practice/GDC Specialist List or inclusion in the UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialists at the point of application
- MFPH by examination, by exemption or by assessment, or equivalent
- • Applicants must meet minimum CPD requirements (i.e. be up to date) in accordance with Faculty of Public Health requirements or other recognised body
Desirable criteria
- Qualification requirements: PhD in appropriate discipline
Knowledge and experience: Experience as defined by type/level (not length)
Essential criteria
- Experience in the management of multidisciplinary teams
- Experience in providing advice for government policy
- Experience of evaluation of interventions and policies
- Experience of managing financial resources
Desirable criteria
- Experience of research
- Experience of health protection work
- Evidence of commitment to research and development, e.g. peer reviewed scientific publications
Skills and capabilities
Essential criteria
- Experience and professional motivation for leading in the area of epidemiological science and evaluation and translation
- Epidemiological and evaluation skills
- Evidence of managing major change successfully and positively
- Proven skill in people management in mobilising and motivating multi-disciplinary teams to learn, develop and deliver to high standards
- Able to coach teams and individuals to deliver improvement
- Demonstrated ability to operate at pace in a fast-changing complex environment to manage competing priorities effectively
- Proven skills in development of creative and innovative interventions to support the organisation and development of a high performing workforce
- Excellent written and oral communication skills proven when communicating to national and local audiences
- Enthusiastic team player with a can-do attitude
- Comfortable with Information Technology and experienced at introducing and managing Information Systems projects
- Able to relate to all grades of staff
Documents
- Consultant in Public Health, Centre for Climate and Health Security (DOCX, 71.4KB)
- Functional Requirements Form (DOCX, 52.3KB)
- Civil Service Recruitment Principles (PDF, 2.6MB)
- Civil Service Nationality Rules (PDF, 345.1KB)
- Application Form Guidance Notes (PDF, 77.3KB)
- Information Sheet - Starting salaries and benefits (PDF, 129.4KB)
- Information Sheet - Selection Process (PDF, 110.1KB)
- Working at UKHSA and your benefits (PDF, 219.2KB)
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- UKHSA SCS and CRF Resourcing Team
- Job title
- UKHSA SCS and CRF Resourcing Team
- Email address
- [email protected]
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