Consultant in Global Public Health

• Provide expert public health advice and technical assistance to UKOT governments and health systems on violence prevention, including violence against women and girls, and related public health priorities.
• Lead delivery of technical outputs across assigned project workstreams.
• Support development, co-design and implementation of evidence-based public health approaches to preventing violence and reducing its impacts.
• Contribute to development of policy frameworks, guidance documents, standards and implementation tools.
• Support development and implementation of violence surveillance systems across UKOTs including contribution to production of epidemiological profiles, public health intelligence products and violence prevention needs assessments.
• Support UKOTs to adopt public health approaches to violence prevention through strategic engagement and technical advice.
• Facilitate and contribute to multi-agency workshops and partnership events involving health, policing, education, safeguarding and community sector partners.
• Support development of sustainable public health capabilities within health systems and Ministries of Health.
• Provide mentoring and supervision to project staff, trainees and public health registrars as required.
• Support design and implementation of project evaluation frameworks and monitoring systems.

Essential

• 1.GMC full and specialist register with a license to practice (or be eligible for registration within six months of interview) or UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialists or be eligible within 6 months
• 2.If included in the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List in a specialty other than public health medicine, candidates must have equivalent training and/or appropriate experience of public health medicine practice
• 3.Public health specialty registrar applicants who are not yet on the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List in dental public health/UKPHR must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they are within 6 months of gaining entry at the date of interview; all other applicants must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they have applied for inclusion in the GMC/GDC/UKPHR specialist registers [see shortlisting notes below for additional guidance]
• 4.If an applicant is UK trained, they must ALSO be a holder of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), or be within six months of award of CCT by date of interview If an applicant is non-UK trained, they will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT
• 5. Applicants must meet the minimum CPD requirements (i.e. be up to date) in accordance with Faculty of Public Health requirements, or another recognised professional body where applicable.
• 6. MFPH by examination, exemption or assessment.

Essential

• Significant strategic experience in public health approaches to violence prevention
• Staff management and training
• Practical experience in facilitating change
• Experience of working with other agencies
• Experience of working with violence prevention initiatives and organisations

Desirable

• Experience of working on global health projects
• Scientific publications, presentation of papers at conferences, seminars etc
• Training and mentoring skills
• Knowledge of grant development and research methodology

Essential

• Ability to lead the strategic development of a violence prevention project including initiatives across organisational and territory/country boundaries
• Strategic thinker with proven leadership skills
• Proven excellent oral and written communication skills (including presentation skills and dealing with the media)
• Proven and effective interpersonal, motivational and influencing skills
• Ability to respond appropriately in unplanned and unforeseen circumstances
• Sensible negotiator with practical expectation of what can be achieved
• Substantially numerate, with highly developed analytical skills using qualitative and quantitative data
• Ability to apply epidemiological methods and statistics
• Ability to design, develop, interpret and implement policies
• Resource and staff management skills
• Project Management skills
• Budget management skills

Essential

• High level of understanding of violence as a public health issue including approaches to surveillance, evidence, interventions, and relevant global/international policy and strategy
• High level of understanding of epidemiology and statistics, public health practice, health promotion, health economics and health care evaluation
• Understanding of NHS and local government cultures, structures and policies
• Knowledge of methods of developing clinical quality assurance, quality improvement and evidence based clinical and/or public health practice
• Understanding of social and political environment
• Understanding of interfaces between health and social care
• An understanding of the public sector duty and the inequality
• Understanding of key agencies involved in health improvement

Essential

• Demonstrate appreciation and acknowledgement of the range and complexities of diversity; self awareness in terms of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers; cultural competence - cultural sensitivity and awareness.