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The Faculty is currently recruiting Wellbeing Champions to following regions: Yorkshire and the Humber, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. Purpose of the role is to raise awareness at regional level of the individual and systemic factors that impact on wellbeing, offer support, gather local and national resources on wellbeing, promote wellbeing best practice, and advise on the Faculty's wellbeing strategy.

FPH actively seeks to have a diverse and representative group of Wellbeing Champions. As such, all Associates, Practitioners, Members and Fellows are encouraged to apply.

You can access the role description here. To apply, please send your CV with a short expression of interest to workforce@fph.org.uk.

The Faculty currently has a vacancy for the role of Director of Training (Registration and Certification) working with the Education and Training department.

This role will see you working the Faculty team overseeing a number of vital processes from enrolment of new Registrars on the training scheme, through to making recommendations to the regulators when Registrars complete training.

This is an important part of the Faculty’s quality assurance role in ensuring that the workforce we produce is of the highest standards.

Further details regarding the role and its responsibilities can be found in the job description here.

If you have any questions regarding the role or wish to apply, please send your CV with a short expression of interest to educ@fph.org.uk

The Faculty is currently looking for volunteers to support the CPD committee as reviewers for the upcoming annual CPD return process. This is open to all FPH Fellows in active practice. The process runs from May till July and training will be provided. You can access the role description here.

If you have any questions regarding the role or wish to apply, please send your CV with a short expression of interest to cpd@fph.org.uk.

The Faculty is seeking to appoint an International CPD Adviser to take office from the FPH AGM on 25 June 2024. This is an important role within the Faculty, with the adviser responsible for the development, implementation and evaluation of all international aspects of the FPH CPD scheme. A post description is available here.

The post is open to all FPH Fellows in good standing and the term of office is three years in the first instance.

If you are interested in applying, please complete and return the application form.

We are currently open for nominations for CPD Advisers for:

• Scotland
• East Midlands
• East of England
• South East 

The CPD work at FPH is overseen by the CPD Advisers Committee. The Committee is responsible for providing strategic direction, guidance and support to the development and improvement of FPH’s CPD scheme.

You can access the role description here.

The posts are open to all FPH Fellows in active practice in the relevant country or region.

For further information and nomination form, please contact carolinewren@fph.org.uk.  The dealine for nominations is 30 April.

The Faculty is looking for more members to become involved in its Diplomate examination.

Being a DFPH examiner is a vital and rewarding role within the Faculty and has a crucial impact in maintaining the high standards of public health practice for which the UK is rightly renowned. The delivery of the exam has changed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and is now sat online with typed scripts, which are much easier to mark, with remote invigilation through a third party.

The Diplomate Exam (formerly the Part A exam) is a crucial milestone in the training pathway of a Public Health Specialty Registrar and is designed as a test of a broad base of public health knowledge. The exam is open to Specialty Registrars and also to candidates not on the training scheme, who typically constitute about ten per cent of the applicants. It is crucial to expanding the public health workforce. Applications to become an examiner would be welcome from any locality, but we are particularly looking for representation from the Defence Medical Services, Yorkshire & the Humber and Northern Ireland.

The time commitment is approximately eight days per year. Examiners meet in person a few times a year for training, question setting and results review. Examiners are also asked to develop exam questions, working in collaboration with other examiners. Members doing this role have found it both challenging and rewarding, with the opportunity to think about an area of public outside of their usual ‘day job' and the opportunity to connect with other examiners a key driver.

The website has further information on the role and the expectations. If you are interested in applying, please email your CV to educ@fph.org.uk with some information on your public health training experience and which particular area of the exam you are interested in, and we look forward to you joining the team.

The Faculty is seeking to appoint a Chair to the MFPH Final Membership Exam from 25 June.

This is an exciting and challenging role leading one of the Faculty’s key committees, critical in supporting the development of the next generation of public health leaders and the profession as a whole. The role description is below.

The closing date for applications is 6 May.

If you are interested in applying for this role and would like an informal discussion with the current Chair of Examiners and/or or you would like more details, please email the Education and Training Team at educ@fph.org.uk.

Role description

We are currently open for nominations for the following posts:

• Faculty Adviser for Yorkshire & the Humber
• Deputy Faculty Adviser for the East Midlands
• Deputy Faculty Adviser for Scotland

Our elected Faculty Advisers promote and maintain high standards of professional competence and practice of public health across the core and defined competency areas of specialist public health practice. They approve job descriptions and adverts for new and replacement consultant level posts on behalf of FPH and can also provide advice on public health careers and training.

Please see a role description here. 

The posts are open to all FPH Fellows in active practice in the relevant country or region.

For further information and nomination form, please contact carolinewren@fph.org.uk.   The deadline for nominations is 30 April.

One of the ways in which FPH assures the highest possible standards in public health practice is through supporting senior public health appointments, ensuring that specialists appointed to consultant and DPH roles have the appropriate qualifications, experience, and knowledge for the role.

Faculty Assessors sit on Advisory Appointment Committees to perform this vital, varied and stimulating role. We are always looking to recruit and train more assessors to support this work. Further information on the role and the training is available here.

Training sessions are held remotely via Zoom. If you are interested in attending the training, please email aac@fph.org.uk. 

This important role recommends to the GMC, doctors to the specialist register, who have acquired the skills and competencies described in the public health training curriculum outside of the training scheme. The role of the Assessor is to complete an assessment of a portfolio of work and recommend applicants to be added, or not, to the specialty register.  

The assessor will receive £300 remuneration for each application reviewed. Further details regarding the role and its responsibilities can be found on this page. 

If you have any questions regarding the role or wish to apply, please send your CV with a short expression of interest to educ@fph.org.uk

The Journal of Public Health is the Faculty of Public Health's academic journal, managed in collaboration with Oxford University Press.

The Journal publishes papers on the theory and practice of the whole spectrum of public health, with a particular focus on the translation of science into action. See the latest issue here.

The Editors-in-Chief are currently seeking Reviewers to support with the peer-review process. To discuss the opportunity further, please contact FPH's Head of Communications at davidparkinson@fph.org.uk

The Clinical Council for Eye Health Commissioning (CCEHC) is an independent advisory body providing evidence-based national clinical leadership, advice, and guidance to policy makers in health, social care and public health, and those commissioning and providing eye health services in England.
 
The role of the Faculty representative is to provide professional public health leadership to the work of the Council, and advocacy for its outputs and eye health.
 
Further information is available from the current representative on the council: parul.desai@nhs.net.

The Chair of the Health Services Committee provides strategic leadership for the UK Faculty of Public Health on matters relating to health services policy and advocacy. This is a critical leadership role within the Faculty and the wider public health community to shape future public health policy and practice across the health services agenda.

Current committee priorities include healthcare public health, the role of the NHS in prevention, input into the work of the Provider Public Health Network and supporting the work of the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) reporting to the committee.
 
FPH thanks outgoing Chair Dr Chris Packham for his excellent leadership of the Committee.
 
To find out more about the role please download the role description. If you are interested in applying for this role, please send through an expression of interest by Friday 31 May.

The FPH Health Services Committee (HSC) is currently accepting applications for new members. Key areas of work for the HSC include championing prevention in the NHS, leadership around Healthcare Public Health (HCPH), and representing FPH in external groups, such as the Centre for Peri-operative Care.

The HSC are particularly interested in hearing from public health specialist colleagues who:

• Work predominantly on HCPH, focussing on and in health and care settings across the UK;
• Work in OHID or UKHSA regional or national settings

The time commitment for HSC members is approximately two hours per month, in addition to quarterly 90-minute meetings. To send an expression of interest, or request further information, please contact the FPH policy team at policy@fph.org.uk.

The FPH Health Protection Committee (HPC) is currently accepting applications for new members. Recently, the HPC helped to plan the 2023 UKHSA conference workstream on ‘Building a successful health protection system’, supported the Faculty’s response to the UK Covid-19 inquiry, and responded to the DHSC Health Protection Notification Regulations consultation.

As a member of the HPC, you will have the opportunity to contribute to consultation responses led by the HPC, as well as attend health-protection workshops and summits on behalf of the FPH. The time commitment for this is approximately 2 hours/month, in addition to quarterly 90-minute meetings.

The HPC are particularly interested in hearing from applicants with a background in health services, and those who work in Northern Ireland. To send an expression of interest, or request further information, please contact the FPH policy team at policy@fph.org.uk.

The Health Protection Committee  and Health Services Committee are currently accepting applications for a committee member who will sit on both committees and act as a link between the two groups.

The committees are interested in hearing from applicants who have experience in health services as well as health protection, and are willing to identify any crossover and opportunities for collaboration between the two committees.

To send an expression of interest, or request further information, please contact the FPH policy team at policy@fph.org.uk.