Consultant Epidemiologist: Sponsorship Available

Public Health Wales

Job summary

The successful candidates will be appointed to the Medical and Dental Consultant salary scale (£114,099 – £166,585) or if from a background other than medicine to NHS Agenda for Change Band 9 (£114,475 – £131,732).

All appointees will also be part of the Health Protection Out of Hours Rota providing consultant support regarding incidents and enquiries made to the service.

Candidates must be on the GMC Specialist Register in Public Health, General Dental Council, or UK Public Health Register for Public Health Specialists.

Main duties of the job

The Consultant epidemiologist will join a team of consultants within CDSC, providing surveillance, field epidemiology, research, and teaching and training in the area of infectious disease epidemiology. They will contribute to the CDSC duty rota (in hours), providing leadership and oversight for surveillance and epidemiological investigations. There are also opportunities for developing a research portfolio, working with academic partners, and for teaching and training. This post will be the epidemiology lead for the Healthcare associated infections and Antimicrobial Resistance (HARP) specialty group, which works with the HARP programme on surveillance and epidemiology of HCAI, AMR and (with health boards) healthcare epidemiology

Person Specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential

  • Inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register or UK Public Health (Specialist) Register
  • If included in the GMC Specialist Register in a specialty other than public health medicine, infectious diseases medicine or medical microbiology, candidates must have equivalent training and/or appropriate experience of public health medicine, infectious diseases medicine or medical microbiology practice
  • Applicants who are not yet on the GMC Register/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/UKPHR [see shortlisting notes below for additional guidance]
  • Applicants must meet minimum CPD requirements in accordance with the requirements of the Faculty of Public Health or other recognised body and be licensed to practise
  • MFPH

Personal Qualities

Essential

  • Strong commitment to public health principles
  • Strategic thinker
  • Able to prioritise work, and work well against a background of change and uncertainty
  • Adaptable to situations, can handle people of all capabilities and attitudes
  • Commitment to team-working, and respect and consideration for the skills of others
  • Self-motivated, pro-active, and innovative
  • High standards of professional probity

Skills

Essential

  • Strategic thinker with proven leadership skills
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills (including dealing with the public and the media)
  • Effective interpersonal, motivational and influencing skills
  • Sensible negotiator with practical expectation of what can be achieved
  • Ability to design, develop, interpret and implement policies
  • Expertise in epidemiological and statistical methods
  • Substantially numerate with highly developed analytical skills
  • Computer literate (MS Office, statistical software)
  • Resource management skills

Desirable

  • Able to develop research proposal and grant applications
  • Budget management skills

Experience

Essential

  • Two or more years’ experience of health protection, including out of hours on call
  • Practical experience of field epidemiology
  • Practical experience in facilitating change
  • Scientific publications, presentation of papers at conferences, seminars etc.
  • Experience of working with other agencies

Desirable

  • Experience of health protection at consultant level
  • Project management
  • Staff management and training

Knowledge

Essential

  • Detailed knowledge of the epidemiology of infectious disease and environmental hazards
  • Familiarity with the symptoms, signs, investigations and treatments used in the diagnosis and management of health protection problems
  • Detailed knowledge of NHS and key agencies involved with health protection
  • Understanding of public health practice, health promotion, health economics and health care evaluation
  • Knowledge of methods for developing quality assured and evidence based public health practice
  • Knowledge and understanding of information, sources on health and the wider determinants of health
  • Understanding of social and political environment
  • Understanding of laboratory microbiology services
  • Understanding of clinical infectious disease services
  • Understanding of local authorities and social services

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 30 September 2026

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