About this role
Job summary
Consultant in Public Health/Consultant in Public Health Medicine
Salary: MG3 (£81,000-£101,000)
Permanent, Full-time
Bromley Civic Centre/Hybrid Working
Ref: AAC0002639
Closing date: Tuesday 1st December 2026
Interviews: Wednesday 16th December 2026
You will provide professional public health leadership and expertise to the Council, the ICB and other stakeholders in the following key areas of Public Health practice: 0-19 Public Health Nursing, child death review function, drug and alcohol prevention programmes for children and young people.
You must have a GMC, GDC, or UKPHR Public Health specialist registration. or be eligible for registration within six months of interview.
MFPH by examination, by exemption or by assessment.
Inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List/UK Voluntary Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialists, or be eligible for registration within six months of interview.
If included in the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List in a specialty other than public health medicine/dental public health, candidates must have equivalent training and/or appropriate experience of public health medicine practice.
Applicants must meet minimum CPD requirements (i.e. be up to date) in accordance with Faculty of Public Health requirements or other recognised body.
For further information about the role or to arrange an informal visit, please contact Dr Nada Lemic on [email protected]
Main duties of the job
You will be expected to have the skills and experience to lead across the full spectrum of public health and hold a work plan with specific lead areas of responsibility. You will carry important leadership responsibilities for key areas both within the Council and externally. You will need to be a strong team player and will have direct responsibility for two members of staff and be an authorised budget holder.
You will have responsibility for development, implementation and delivery of national, regional and local policies, developing inter-agency and interdisciplinary strategic plans and programmes.
About us
This is an exciting opportunity to join the London Borough of Bromley Public Health Department as a Consultant in Public Health. This post is a replacement post.
Bromley is a borough in south-east London, with a population of 330,000.
We are a relatively small but close-knit team, and we work in an integrated way across the Council and the ICB. We have fostered good relationships with colleagues within the Council, the NHS and also across the South East London.
We are forces family friendly and are part of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme (Gold Award). We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.
We are committed to achieving equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and as a disability confident committed employer we encourage applications from people with disabilities. As part of this commitment, we will consider reasonable adjustment to support disability employment.
We offer a generous package including competitive pay, career average pension scheme, flexible working practices and the Bromley employee benefits scheme; Cycle2Work, Salary Sacrifice Lease Car, Technology Scheme, GymFlex and a wide range of local and national discounts.
Job description
Job responsibilities
SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES
The post is responsible for covering a portfolio of specialist public health functions:
Strategic leadership of all children public health for the department, working with colleagues and key partners such as SEL ICB to implement national strategies.
Provide strategic leadership for the 0-19 Public Health Nursing services, including commissioning and monitoring performance and budget;
Leading the child death review function, including chairing the Child Death Oversight Panel;
Working with colleagues in the public health intelligence team to produce a Childrens Joint Strategic Needs Assessment every two years and ensure surveillance of child health in the borough.
Strategic leadership and oversight of universal drug and alcohol prevention programmes for children and young people.
Oversight of antenatal and newborn screening;
Commissioning and oversight of child oral health services;
Commissioning and oversight of childhood obesity services;
Public health input to child safeguarding
Public health input to children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
Public Health input to ICB commissioning of maternity services
Deputise for the Director of Public Health as necessary.
Support the London-wide and SE London approach to specific joint programmes of work where relevant to their expertise.
Work closely with other teams in the Public Health team to deliver substance misuse, health protection and sexual health services to children and young people in Bromley and the department wide Public Health in the Community Programme.
Provide expert public health advice to Local Authority commissioners, including Public Health commissioners and undertake direct commissioning and procurement where relevant.
Taking responsibility for the training obligations of the directorate by supervising and supporting Public Health and GP registrars on placement within the department in liaison with other senior colleagues.
Support the Director of Public Health in the provision of expert public health advice to the Council, SEL ICB and partner agencies as required; presenting at meetings and attending the SEL ICB and Council meetings and committees as required.
Strategic Responsibility and Key Tasks
In delivering the strategic objectives the postholder will be expected to demonstrate expertise in the full range of relevant competencies as set out by the Faculty of Public Health. This includes evaluation techniques, policy analysis and translation and ability to communicate effectively with a range of stakeholders often including politicians.
Strategic objectives will include
On behalf of the authority to take responsibility for ensuring delivery of the key public health mandated services (eg; mandated reviews as set out in the Healthy Child Programme) such that the full range of benefits are delivered to children living in Bromley, registered with a Bromley GP or attending school in Bromley.
To work across the Council as well as influencing partnership boards (dealing with health determinants) to maximise health improvement opportunities and the reduction of inequalities in health outcomes amongst babies, children and young people.
In negotiation with the DPH (&/or the Council), the postholder may be asked to take on responsibilities that are underpinned by any of the FPH competencies. Postholders will be expected to maintain both the general expertise as well as develop topic based expertise as required by the DPH and will be expected to deputise for the DPH as and when required.
The range of duties expected of the postholder include:
Taking responsibility for a range of public health issues and work across organisational and professional boundaries acting as a change agent managing complexity to deliver improvements in health and wellbeing.
Providing briefings on the health and wellbeing needs of local children and young people to Councillors, Council Officers, ICSs, the 3rd sector, the public and partners.
Taking responsibility for development, implementation and delivery of robust policies and strategies for improving the health of local population. This may include taking the lead in developing detailed inter-agency and interdisciplinary strategic plans and programmes based on needs assessments which may lead to development of service specifications and procurement.
Utilising (and if appropriate developing) information and intelligence systems to underpin public health action across disciplines and organisations. This will include providing leadership for collation and interpretation of relevant data and appropriate use of outcome frameworks.
Providing the key local authority link to the research community, providing advice/support to colleagues and co-ordinating appropriate access to scientific information. The postholder will be expected to take part in relevant research networks and to influence research programmes of such networks so that the research needs of the local authority are taken into account.
Underpinning much of these duties are public health tasks such as:
Undertaking health needs assessments as required to enable actions to be taken to improve the health of the local population.
Developing prioritisation techniques and managing their application to policies, services and to help resolve issues such as the investment-disinvestment debate.
Effective communication of complex concepts, science and data and their implications for local communities, to a range of stakeholders with very different backgrounds.
Understanding of evaluation frameworks and applying those frameworks to the benefit of local communities.
A capacity to apply the scientific body of knowledge on public health to the policies and services necessary to improve health and to formulate clear practical evidence-based recommendations.
The understanding of human and organisational behaviour and the application of this knowledge to the achievement of change.
Inspire commitment to public health outcomes and to prevention as a core feature of public sector reform.
Expert public health advice
Provide expert public health and epidemiological advice and leadership to support and inform an evidence-based approach within ethical frameworks for commissioning and developing high quality equitable services, across primary, secondary and social care, and across sectors including local health commissioners and providers, voluntary organisations, etc.
Support to Local Authority and public health commissioners in terms of pathway remodelling, service design, services review and evaluation.
Provide public health advice to the ICS particularly related to strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation of services and needs assessments.
Management arrangements and responsibilities
The postholder will be professionally accountable to the employing authority and managerially accountable to the employing authority via their line manager, the Director of Public Health. Professional appraisal will be required. An initial job plan will be agreed with the successful candidate prior to that individual taking up the post. This job plan will be reviewed as part of the annual job planning process.
The post holder
Will manage the Public Health Childrens team (2 people) and relevant budgets (approximately £5 mil)
Will be responsible for teaching/delivery of core training on a range of subjects or for specialist training.
Will deputise for the Director of Public Health as required.
Will undertake any other duties commensurate with the level of the post, as required to ensure the efficient and effective running of the Department / Section.
Professional obligations
These include
Participate in the organisations staff appraisal scheme and quality improvement programme, and ensure appraisal and development of any staff for which s/he is responsible.
Contribute actively to the training programme for Foundation Year Doctors / Speciality Registrars in Public Health and Las management trainees as appropriate, and to the training of practitioners and primary care professionals within the locality.
Undertake an annual professional appraisal including completion of a programme of CPD, in accordance with Faculty of Public Health requirements, or other recognised body, and undertake revalidation, audit or other measures required to remain on the GMC/GDC Specialist Register or the UK Public Health (Specialist) Register or other specialist register as appropriate.
It is a duty of a health professional to foster scientific integrity, freedom of scientific publications, and freedom of debate on health matters, and public health professionals have a further responsibility to promote good governance and open government.
In agreement with the DPH contribute as an appraiser to the professional appraisal system.
Practise in accordance with all relevant sections of the General Medical Councils Good Medical Practice (if medically qualified) and the Faculty of Public Healths Good Public Health Practice and UKPHR requirements.
Contribute to professional leadership within the health system.
Public health practice must be carried out within the ethical framework of the health professions.
The post holder will be expected to maintain effective, courageous, and responsible public health advocacy.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Delivery of successful change management programmes across organizational boundaries
- Media experience demonstrating delivery of effective health behaviour or health promotion messages
- Experience of using complex information to explain public health issues to a range of audiences
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Skills
- Strategic thinker with proven leadership skills and operational nous
- Able to demonstrate and motivate organisations to contribute to improving the publics 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 health and care system and relationships with both local & 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
Qualifications
Essential
- In line with legislation, inclusion in the GMC Full and Specialist Register with a license to practice/GDC Specialist List or inclusion in the UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialists at the point of application.
- If included in the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List in a specialty other than public health medicine/dental public health, candidates must have equivalent training and/or appropriate experience of public health practice
- Any public health speciality registrar applicants who are currently on the UK public health training programme and not yet on either the GMC, GDC or UKPHR specialist register must provide verifiable signed documentary evidence that they are within 6 months of gaining entry to a register at the date of interview
- Applicants going through the portfolio registration routes (GMC or UKPHR) are not eligible to be shortlisted for interview until they are included on the register. The six-month rule does not apply to these portfolio route applicants.
- 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 [see shortlisting notes below)
- Applicants must meet minimum CPD requirements (i.e. be up to date) in accordance with Faculty of Public Health requirements or other recognised body
- MFPH by examination, by exemption or by assessment, or equivalent
- Masters in Public Health or equivalent
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
London Borough of Bromley
Address
Bromley Council
Civic Centre
Churchill Court, 2 Westmoreland Road, Bromley
Bromley
BR1 1AS
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.bromley.gov.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)