Clinical Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Public Health

You will strengthen the academic base of Public Health Medicine within the Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences (MDBS) at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) and the Public Health Agency (PHA) working as part of both the PHA and QUB academic teams specialising in public health and epidemiology.

Your academic responsibilities will involve undertaking research in line with the School’s research strategy, teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and contributing to School’s administration/outreach activity. You will contribute to strategic objectives relating to research, education, innovation and international impact, aligned with investments in Belfast Region City Deal which aim to create an integrated ecosystem for health and life sciences.

You will run programmes of research that are relevant to the School’s research strategy, addressing the major risk factors impacting public health (e.g. diet and other lifestyle factors). You will increase the links between the Public Health ecosystem and researchers in CPH / MDBS and develop national and international links to progress such research activities.

You will also provide specialist leadership, advice and support to the PHA and deliver public health duties to meet the objectives of your team. As part of this, you will be responsible for leading the planning and delivery of complex public health work programmes within multidisciplinary teams and working collaboratively with colleagues. In discharging these responsibilities, you will maintain and develop effective working relationships with a wide variety of individuals and organisations involved with protecting and improving the health of the population, providing expert knowledge and guidance. In particular, you will need to work closely with others in the local, regional and national partners including the Department of Health, the Strategic Planning and Performance Group, Health and Social Care Trusts, Primary Care, local Councils, Community & Voluntary sector partners, UKHSA, PH Scotland, PH Wales and the Health Service Executive in Ireland.

About the person:

The post is available at Lecturer or Senior Lecturer academic grades. Please indicate which grade you are applying for and address the relevant essential criteria in your application.

The essential education and qualification requirements for both academic grades are as follows:

• Primary Degree
• Higher degree (PhD, MD or equivalent).
• 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.
• If included in the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List in a specialty other than public health medicine/dental public health, candidates must have equivalent training and/or appropriate experience of public health practice.
• Public health specialty registrar applicants who are not yet on the GMC Specialist Register, GDC Specialist List in dental public health or UKPHR must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they are within 6 months of gaining entry to a register at the date of interview.

To be successful at shortlisting stage, please ensure you clearly evidence in your application how you meet the essential and, where applicable, desirable criteria listed in the Candidate Information document on our website

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