Consultants in Public Health

**Consultants in Public Health Medicine / Consultants in Public Health**

**Two posts. Full Time Available. Part Time and Flexible Applications Welcome. Hybrid working**

Medical Consultant scale : £91,474 - £121,548 with 8% availability supplement for participation in the current on-call rota.

Agenda for Change Band 8D scale - £94,345 - £98,384 with on-call allowance in accordance with AFC terms and conditions.

**OUR VALUES IN ACTION**

Care and Compassion Quality and Teamwork Dignity and Respect Openness, honesty and responsibility

**Why work for us?**

We are a dynamic and forward thinking team with a wealth of clinical and leadership experience. We aim for an open and honest culture and believe in nurturing future stars in NHS and are building a learning culture.

NHS Borders serves a population of around 115,000. Our area is geographically large (covering 1800 square miles) mostly rural with small burghs and very sparsely populated areas. Superb educational and leisure facilities and good quality affordable housing, provide ideal opportunities for a high quality of life in this scenic part of the country, just one hour away from Edinburgh.

We think the professional challenge will be appealing for any Public Health Consultant; as in the Scottish Borders we have
- The human scale of change, where you can see interventions from conception through to delivery, with a close steering hand by yourself as the Consultant clearly able to demonstrate change - in more complex systems or organisations there is less job satisfaction as changes are incremental and impact is often difficult to ascribe;
- Our geography of settlements separated by valleys with similar populations means that it is feasible to have population-level variable interventions in different towns; these population “case-controls” offer a unique opportunity to evaluate public health measures rarely available elsewhere;
- We have a newly appointed and experienced Director of Public Health and also Chief Executive of Scottish Borders Council, both keen to have public health central to all policies;
- There is a desire to develop an active dialogue with the local population with the aim of creating a social movement for well-being as well as develop primary/secondary prevention supporting demand management initiatives;
- A supportive Health Board keen to address health inequalities but facing challenges found in rural populations (where SIMD is difficult to use due to small populations);
- The Public Health Department consists of around 60 people and is accountable to and directly managed by the DPH and his senior management team, unlike in larger areas;
- Communicable disease control duties are being transferred to a regional partnership - the new East of Scotland Health Protection Service by end of 2023;
**The Role**

These are senior appointments in the Department of Public Health with delegated specialist interests and shared responsibility with your colleagues for the full range of Public Health services in the Scottish Borders area including health protection, health improvement and healthcare public health. The post provides with other colleagues an emergency out of hours rota for public health and environmental health hazards control. Communication skills, both written and oral, and organisational and leadership skills are essential.

Applicants must appear on the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List in dental public health/UK Voluntary Register for Public Health Specialists (UKPHR) or be a Public Health Specialist Registrar (SpR) or Specialist Trainee (StR) in a recognised UK public health training scheme within six months of award of their certificate of completion of training (CCT) and inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List in dental public health/UKPHR at the date of interview. Applicants from a background other than medicine would normally be expected to have gained full registration with the UKPHR.