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The UK Faculty of Public Health (FPH) is full of people who are passionate about improving people’s lives.
We’re a small charity with around 20 paid staff at any one time. Every so often new opportunities arise for people to join the staff team and help to make a difference, but we rely on the amazing support of our members to deliver much of our important work. Below you will find the current opportunities available to contribute to FPH’s work.
Our organisation is built on our values so before deciding if you want to apply for one of the vacancies listed below, please make sure you read about our values and behaviours.
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Current vacancies
The Faculty currently has a vacancy for the role of Director of Training (Registration and Certification) working with the Education and Training department.
This role will see you working the Faculty team overseeing a number of vital processes from enrolment of new Registrars on the training scheme, through to making recommendations to the regulators when Registrars complete training.
This is an important part of the Faculty’s quality assurance role in ensuring that the workforce we produce is of the highest standards.
Further details regarding the role and its responsibilities can be found in the job description here.
The deadline for expressions of interest is 19 July.
If you have any questions regarding the role or wish to apply, please send your CV with a short expression of interest to educ@fph.org.uk
The Faculty is currently seeking volunteers to support the CPD Committee as Reviewers for the upcoming annual CPD return process, which runs from May to July. This is open to all FPH Fellows in active practice and training will be provided. You can access the role description here.
If you have any questions regarding the role or wish to apply, please send your CV with a short expression of interest to cpd@fph.org.uk.
The Faculty's former Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Committee has been refreshed to form a new Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee. The committee will provide oversight of all EDI work across the Faculty, both internally and externally.
We are seeking to appoint two co-chairs, or one chair and one vice chair, to provide strategic leadership and direction, and to inspire FPH members to support this vital area of the Faculty's work. A post description and application form are available here, together with a link to the committee's terms of reference.
To apply, please complete the application form and email to carolinewren@fph.org.uk by Friday 9 August.
The Faculty is seeking to appoint a Chair to the FPH Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) SIG. This is an exciting role leading a key Faculty SIG, critical in promoting equality, diversity and inclusion both within the public health workforce and in all public health work.
The full role description is available here. If you’re interested in applying to be the next EDI SIG Chair, please fill out this form and send to edsig@fph.org.uk by Friday 28 June – we will get back to respondents by 5 July.
The Faculty is seeking to appoint a new Chair of the FPH Ethics Committee, who will play a lead role in developing the committee’s vision for the next three years and supporting the delivery of its programme of work.
The Ethics Committee provides a focus for ethical analysis, consideration and response to public health challenges and issues, and advises and supports FPH in further embedding ethical principles and understanding into its activities, policies, practice and governance.
The role description is available here. To apply, please email your CV and an expression of interest to carolinewren@fph.org.uk by Friday 12 July.
The Faculty is seeking to recruit a lay member to advise on the work of the FPH Education Committee and the Faculty's training strategic and operational functions. The role of the Lay Member is to provide an external view on FPH processes to ensure that decision-making is consistent, robust and transparent. The role description is available here.
To apply for this role, please email your CV and a short citation to educ@fph.org.uk by 18 August.
We are currently open for nominations for CPD Advisers for:
- DMS
- East Midlands
- South East
The CPD work at FPH is overseen by the CPD Advisers Committee. The Committee is responsible for providing strategic direction, guidance and support to the development and improvement of FPH’s CPD scheme.
You can access the role description here.
The posts are open to all FPH Fellows in active practice in the relevant country or region.
For further information and nomination form, please contact carolinewren@fph.org.uk.
The Faculty is looking for more members to become involved in its Diplomate examination.
Being a DFPH examiner is a vital and rewarding role within the Faculty and has a crucial impact in maintaining the high standards of public health practice for which the UK is rightly renowned. The delivery of the exam has changed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and is now sat online with typed scripts, which are much easier to mark, with remote invigilation through a third party.
The Diplomate Exam (formerly the Part A exam) is a crucial milestone in the training pathway of a Public Health Specialty Registrar and is designed as a test of a broad base of public health knowledge. The exam is open to Specialty Registrars and also to candidates not on the training scheme, who typically constitute about ten per cent of the applicants. It is crucial to expanding the public health workforce. Applications to become an examiner would be welcome from any locality, but we are particularly looking for representation from the Defence Medical Services, Yorkshire & the Humber and Northern Ireland.
The time commitment is approximately eight days per year. Examiners meet in person a few times a year for training, question setting and results review. Examiners are also asked to develop exam questions, working in collaboration with other examiners. Members doing this role have found it both challenging and rewarding, with the opportunity to think about an area of public outside of their usual ‘day job' and the opportunity to connect with other examiners a key driver.
The website has further information on the role and the expectations. If you are interested in applying, please email your CV to educ@fph.org.uk with some information on your public health training experience and which particular area of the exam you are interested in, and we look forward to you joining the team.
The Faculty is seeking to appoint a Deputy Chair to the MFPH Final Membership Exam from July 2024.
This is an exciting and challenging role for one of the Faculty’s key committees, critical in supporting the development of the next generation of public health leaders and the profession as a whole.
The closing date for applications is 21st June.
Please see a role description here.
If you are interested in applying for this role and would like further details, please email the Education & Training team (educ@fph.org.uk).
Our elected Faculty Advisers and Deputy Faculty Advisers promote and maintain high standards of professional competence and practice of public health across the core and defined competency areas of specialist public health practice. They approve job descriptions and adverts for new and replacement consultant level posts on behalf of FPH and can also provide advice on public health careers and training. We are currently recruiting deputy advisers for:
- East Midlands
- Scotland
Please see a role description here.
The posts are open to all FPH Fellows in active practice in the relevant country or region.
For further information and nomination form, please contact carolinewren@fph.org.uk.
One of the ways in which FPH assures the highest possible standards in public health practice is through supporting senior public health appointments, ensuring that specialists appointed to consultant and DPH roles have the appropriate qualifications, experience, and knowledge for the role.
Faculty Assessors sit on Advisory Appointment Committees to perform this vital, varied and stimulating role. We are always looking to recruit and train more assessors to support this work. Further information on the role and the training is available here.
Training sessions are held remotely via Zoom. If you are interested in attending the training, please email aac@fph.org.uk.
This important role recommends to the GMC, doctors to the specialist register, who have acquired the skills and competencies described in the public health training curriculum outside of the training scheme. The role of the Assessor is to complete an assessment of a portfolio of work and recommend applicants to be added, or not, to the specialty register.
The assessor will receive £300 remuneration for each application reviewed. Further details regarding the role and its responsibilities can be found on this page.
If you have any questions regarding the role or wish to apply, please send your CV with a short expression of interest to educ@fph.org.uk
The Journal of Public Health is the Faculty of Public Health's academic journal, managed in collaboration with Oxford University Press.
The Journal publishes papers on the theory and practice of the whole spectrum of public health, with a particular focus on the translation of science into action. See the latest issue here.
The Editors-in-Chief are currently seeking Reviewers to support with the peer-review process. To discuss the opportunity further, please contact FPH's Head of Communications at davidparkinson@fph.org.uk
The FPH Health Services Committee (HSC) is currently accepting applications for new members. Key areas of work for the HSC include championing prevention in the NHS, leadership around Healthcare Public Health (HCPH), and representing FPH in external groups, such as the Centre for Peri-operative Care.
The HSC are particularly interested in hearing from public health specialist colleagues who:
- Work predominantly on HCPH, focussing on and in health and care settings across the UK;
- Work in OHID or UKHSA regional or national settings
The time commitment for HSC members is approximately two hours per month, in addition to quarterly 90-minute meetings. To send an expression of interest, or request further information, please contact the FPH policy team at policy@fph.org.uk.
The FPH Health Protection Committee (HPC) is currently accepting applications for new members. Recently, the HPC helped to plan the 2023 UKHSA conference workstream on ‘Building a successful health protection system’, supported the Faculty’s response to the UK Covid-19 inquiry, and responded to the DHSC Health Protection Notification Regulations consultation.
As a member of the HPC, you will have the opportunity to contribute to consultation responses led by the HPC, as well as attend health-protection workshops and summits on behalf of the FPH. The time commitment for this is approximately 2 hours/month, in addition to quarterly 90-minute meetings.
The HPC are particularly interested in hearing from applicants with a background in health services, and those who work in Northern Ireland. To send an expression of interest, or request further information, please contact the FPH policy team at policy@fph.org.uk.
The Health Protection Committee and Health Services Committee are currently accepting applications for a committee member who will sit on both committees and act as a link between the two groups.
The committees are interested in hearing from applicants who have experience in health services as well as health protection, and are willing to identify any crossover and opportunities for collaboration between the two committees.
To send an expression of interest, or request further information, please contact the FPH policy team at policy@fph.org.uk.
The Faculty is currently recruiting Wellbeing Champions to the following regions:
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Wales
- Northern Ireland
- Scotland
Purpose of the role is to raise awareness at regional level of the individual and systemic factors that impact on wellbeing, offer support, gather local and national resources on wellbeing, promote wellbeing best practice, and advise on the Faculty's wellbeing strategy.
FPH actively seeks to have a diverse and representative group of Wellbeing Champions. As such, all Associates, Practitioners, Members and Fellows are encouraged to apply.
You can access the role description here. To apply, please send your CV with a short expression of interest to workforce@fph.org.uk.