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Consultant in Public Health/Consultant in Public Health Medicine

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Posting date: 11 August 2025
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £105,504 - £139,882 per annum inclusive of HCAS pro-rata
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 10 September 2025
Location: London, NW1 2PG
Company: University College London Hospital
Job type: Contract
Job reference: 7411112/309-UCLH-6689

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Summary

A Vacancy at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.


UCLH is seeking a 24-month fixed term 30 Hours per week Consultant in Public Health with a special interest in inclusion health. The appointee will work in our specialist Find&Treat team. They will participate in the development of our research portfolio and should be committed to enhancing the national and international profile of the service and to delivering the highest quality patient care.

The post is primarily office based, with some opportunity for remote working. Participation in regional and national meetings is required, with the aim of developing a national profile. The successful applicant will join our current team of multidisciplinary inclusion health specialists and will be expected to play a key role in the development and running of the service in close partnership with other stakeholders. The appointee will enhance research opportunities within their specialist field in addition to participating in both undergraduate and postgraduate education.

Interviews are anticipated to take place on 28th august 2025
This post is also open to non-medical staff and is advertised separately as a Band 8d Agenda for Change post.The link to this advert is: It can be viewed at https://www.uclh.nhs.uk/work-with-us/current-vacancies#!/job/v7408099



The post holder, working with the Find&Treat Clinical Director, will lead on improving the health and wellbeing of inclusion health groups with a focus on infectious disease services within a holistic model of care. They are expected to have solid understanding of inclusion health principles and practice alongside public health expertise.

They will take responsibility for strategic objectives of the Find&Treat team and act as a change agent to enable delivery of relevant outcomes. The post holder may hold managerial responsibility for services and budgets that contribute to strategic objectives of Find&Treat. They are expected to identify and act on opportunities to influence policy and strategy locally, regionally and nationally related to healthcare provision for inclusion health groups. This may include surveillance programmes, national guidance and academic publications to raise the profile of health issues and formulate evidence-based solutions to improve outcomes.

The post holder will work day-to-day with clinical and non-clinical team members delivering healthcare to inclusion health populations. They will also collaborate with multiagency stakeholders to raise the profile of the service and inclusion health issues. They should be confident to act independently, identify pragmatic solutions to problems, and respond to needs in a fast-paced environment.

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.


We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:

• University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)

• National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

• Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals

• University College Hospital Grafton Way Building

• Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine

• University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre

• The Hospital for Tropical Diseases

• University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street



We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological,gastrointestinaland oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclearmedicineandpathology.


Weare committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.


For the full Person Specification and more informationregardingthe main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.

A brief description is provided below but please refer to the full job description attached.


Please note, due toanticipatedhigh volumes of applications, this vacancy may close earlier than the listed closing date. You areadvised not to delaysubmittingyour completed application.



This role is a 24-month fixed term, 0.8WTE consultant role. The role is primarily based at the Find&Treat office at UCLH, 250 Euston Road, London, with opportunity for some remote working.

The post holder, working with the Find&Treat Clinical Director, will lead on improving the health and wellbeing of inclusion health groups with a focus on delivery of infectious disease services situated in a holistic model of care provision. The post holder is expected to have a solid understanding of inclusion health principles and practice alongside broad public health skills and expertise.

Working with the Find&Treat Clinical Director, the post holder will lead on delivering core strategic objectives of the National Institute for Health and Care Research Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Inclusion Health Theme. The PH consultant lead role extends across a number of priority areas, including leading on Patient Public Involvement in collaboration with the UCL Collaborative Centre for Inclusion Health and UKHSA; supporting expansion of outreach inclusion health screening to vulnerable migrant populations and sex workers (including evaluation of these programmes) and expanding video supported care programmes to include HIV care for inclusion health groups, and to support care transition from child to adult HIV services and others with a diagnosis of HIV and detectable viral load.

The post holder is expected to identify and act on opportunities to influence policy and strategy locally, regionally and nationally related to healthcare provision for inclusion health groups. Broad areas of work will include design and implementation of surveillance programmes, national guidance and academic publications to increase the profile of health issues affecting inclusion health groups and formulating evidence-based solutions to improving health outcomes. The post holder may hold direct managerial responsibility for services and budgets which directly contribute to strategic objectives of Find&Treat.

The post holder will work directly on a day-to-day basis with a range of clinical and non-clinical team members working to deliver healthcare to inclusion health populations. The post holder will also work with a wide variety of key multiagency stakeholders to increase the profile of the service and of inclusion health issues more broadly. Key partners include the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID), the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, NHS England and stakeholders including the Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH), Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), the Local Government Association, service providers & service users and their representatives/advocates, to prevent, contain and control infectious diseases and other hazards impacting these populations and their communities.

The post holder should be confident to act independently, to identify pragmatic solutions to problems, and to respond to needs within a fast-paced environment

Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*


*UCLH top trust to work at in England- In the most recentNHS staff surveyUCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the third year in a row.


UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff – To find out more, visit:Flexible working. 


To discover more about what makes UCLHa great placeto work, visit:Why Choose UCLH?



This advert closes on Monday 18 Aug 2025

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