Consultant in Public Health
The closing date is 10 June 2026
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Consultant in Public Health to join Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT), also working across the Mid Yorkshire Teaching Hospitals Trust, to support development across the Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield health and care system.
This senior, system‑facing role provides specialist public health leadership and advice to acute trusts, focusing on prevention, population health improvement and reducing health inequalities within secondary care services.
Main Duties of the Job
The postholder will be employed by CHFT and will provide public health consultant input to Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust and Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust (MYTT), working closely with local authorities, the Integrated Care Board and wider partners across the CKW footprint.
This role offers the opportunity to work with a high degree of autonomy, influencing strategy and service design across complex organisational boundaries, and making a tangible impact on population health outcomes.
The successful postholder will work closely with senior clinical and executive leaders, local authorities and Integrated Care System partners, with the space and autonomy to make a real difference to how health inequalities and population health improvement are addressed within secondary care.
Job Responsibilities
- Provide specialist healthcare public health advice to CHFT and MYTT, supporting delivery of high‑quality, equitable acute services.
- Lead and coordinate public health input to programmes that strengthen prevention and action on health inequalities in secondary care.
- Act as a key link between acute trusts, local authorities and system partners across Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield.
- Use population health intelligence, epidemiology and health economics to inform service planning, prioritisation and improvement.
- Lead or contribute to health needs assessments, health impact assessments and health equity audits.
- Support the development of neighbourhood and community approaches that integrate with Trust services and reduce avoidable admissions.
- Influence and support implementation of national, regional and local public health policy within acute trust settings.
- Advise on monitoring, evaluation and outcome frameworks to support quality improvement and equity of access.
- Provide leadership within Trust and partnership governance forums as required.
- Act as educational supervisor and project supervisor to public health specialty registrars.
- Line‑manage the Project Manager for Health Inequalities (CHFT) and manage delegated budgets as required.
Working Relationships
Managerial accountability: Deputy Chief Executive, CHFT.
Professional accountability: Director of Public Health, Kirklees Council.
The postholder will work closely with senior leaders at CHFT, MYTT, local authorities, and system partners across the CKW footprint.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
- Adherence to the National Health Service (Appointment of Consultants) Regulations 1996 – 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) or inclusion in the UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialists (or be eligible for registration within six months of interview).
- Those on the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List in a specialty other than public health medicine/dental public health must have equivalent training and/or appropriate experience of public health practice.
- Public health specialty registrar applicants 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. All other applicants not yet granted specialist registration must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence from the relevant register that they have submitted satisfactory evidence and therefore registration within six months of date of interview is assured.
- If an applicant is UK trained in Public Health, they must also be a holder of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), or be within six months of award of CCT by date of interview. If an applicant is non‑UK trained, they will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT.
- Applicants must meet minimum CPD requirements (i.e. be up to date) in accordance with Faculty of Public Health requirements or other recognised body.
- Qualification by examination, by exemption or by assessment (Masters in Public Health or equivalent).
- Ability to influence senior members including directors and CEOs.
- Ability to both lead teams and contribute effectively in teams led by junior colleagues.
- Commitment to work within a political system irrespective of personal political affiliations.
Experience
- Delivery of successful change management programmes across organisational boundaries.
- Experience of using complex information to explain public health issues to a range of audiences.
- Media experience demonstrating delivery of effective health behaviour or health promotion messages.
Skills
- Strategic thinker with proven leadership skills and operational nous.
- Able to demonstrate and motivate organisations to contribute to improving the public’s health and wellbeing through mainstream activities and within resources.
- Ability to lead and manage the response successfully in unplanned and unforeseen circumstances.
- Analytical skills able to utilize both qualitative (including health economics) and quantitative information.
- Ability to design, develop, interpret and implement strategies and policies.
Knowledge
- In‑depth understanding of the health and care system and the relationships with local and national government.
- In‑depth knowledge of methods of developing clinical quality assurance, quality improvement, evaluations and evidence‑based public health practice.
- Strong and demonstrable understanding of interfaces between health, social care and key partners (dealing with wider determinants of health).
- Understanding of the public sector duty and the inequality duty and their application to public health practice.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such a submission for disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service will be required to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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