Consultant in Global Public Health: Sponsorship Available

Job summary

UKHSA is leading the Public Health Approaches to Violence: Interventions, Surveillance & Evidence (PAVISE) project, a three-year initiative delivered in partnership with Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) and the WHO Collaborating Centre for Violence Prevention. The project aims to support implementation of a coordinated, evidence-based public health approach to violence prevention across UKOTs through violence surveillance, prevention, early intervention, workforce development, research, evaluation and regional collaboration.

The PAVISE Project sits within the UK Overseas Territories (UKOTs) Health Security Programme which is funded by the Overseas Territories Resilient Economies and Security and Stability programme at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). The UKOTs Health Security Programme works in partnership with UKOT governments, regional organisations and UK government partners to strengthen health security and health system resilience across the Territories.

For full details, please refer to the attached Job Description & Person Specification.

Main duties of the job

o 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.o Lead delivery of technical outputs across assigned project workstreams.o Support development, co-design and implementation of evidence-based public health approaches to preventing violence and reducing its impacts.o Contribute to development of policy frameworks, guidance documents, standards and implementation tools.o 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.o Support UKOTs to adopt public health approaches to violence prevention through strategic engagement and technical advice.o Facilitate and contribute to multi-agency workshops and partnership events involving health, policing, education, safeguarding and community sector partners.o Support development of sustainable public health capabilities within health systems and Ministries of Health.o Provide mentoring and supervision to project staff, trainees and public health registrars as required.o Support design and implementation of project evaluation frameworks and monitoring systems.

For full details, please refer to the attached Job Description & Person Specification.

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

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.

Experience

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

Skills

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

Knowledge

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

Equality and diversity

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.

Closing Date: 16 November 2026