Description
The Deputy Director – Health Equity and Community Protection role provides strategic leadership for UKHSA's work on health equity, community protection, and national public health guidance, standards and advice.
The postholder will lead efforts to reduce avoidable and unjust differences in exposure to, vulnerability, and outcomes from infectious diseases and health hazards, ensuring health protection activities improve health equity, population resilience and health security.
Drawing on lessons from pandemics, outbreaks and major incidents, the postholder will ensure that health security policy, evidence, guidance and interventions are effective, proportionate and informed by the needs of communities most affected by health threats.
The role will lead UKHSA's approach to community protection, including advice and guidance on community-centred interventions and public health and social measures that reduce the health and social impacts of emergencies.
The postholder is required to:
- Work with directors and deputy directors across UKHSA to develop a clear vision and strategy for health equity and community protection in infectious diseases and external health hazards with measurable goals
- Develop and maintain strategic partnerships within UKHSA and externally across local, regional and national systems
- Provide strategic and professional leadership for UKHSA's national public health guidance function
- Lead the development and implementation of UKHSA's community protection approach
- Work across UKHSA and academic partners to improve understanding of inequalities in exposure to, vulnerability to, and outcomes from infectious disease and other external health hazards
- Ensure that evidence is translated into policy and practice, and that inequalities in health protection outcomes are systematically monitored, reported and used to inform action
The ideal candidate will have:
- Inclusion in the GMC Full and Specialist Register with a license to practice/GDC Specialist List (or be eligible for registration within six months of interview)
- 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
- MFPH by examination, by exemption or by assessment, or equivalent
- Strategic thinker with proven leadership skills and operational nous
- Ability to lead and manage the response successfully in unplanned and unforeseen circumstances
- Analytical skills able to utilise both qualitative (including health economics) and quantitative information
Benefits include:
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity