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.
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.
Key responsibilities include:
- Developing a clear vision and strategy for health equity and community protection in infectious diseases and external health hazards with measurable goals
- Providing strategic and professional leadership for UKHSA's national public health guidance function
- Leading the development and implementation of UKHSA's community protection approach
- Working with national, regional and local partners to support effective delivery
- Providing authoritative consultant-level public health advice to UKHSA Executive Committee, Directors, government departments and national partners
The successful candidate will be appointed to the point of the Consultant salary scale appropriate to their years of seniority or if from a background other than medicine to NHS Agenda for Change Band 9.
Inclusion in the GMC Full and Specialist Register with a license to practice (or be eligible for registration within six months of interview) is required.