Applying for consulant posts

Trainees from backgrounds other than medicine

Normally, applicants for consultant posts must already be on the Voluntary Register of Public Health Specialists.

 

Trainees from medical backgrounds

Applicants for direct entry to the Specialist Register must wait to apply for consultant posts until the PMETB and the GMC have processed their applications and the entry has been made onto the Specialist Register. An exception is made for Specialist Registrars who are within three months of being on the Specialist Register.

The six-month rule

The Faculty of Public Health advises that applicants who are Specialist Registrars in public health medicine not yet on the GMC Specialist Register must have fully passed the Part B MFPH examination in order to be short-listable for a consultant grade post.

It also advises that suitable signed documentary evidence must be provided by such applicants to confirm that they are within six months (ie six months beforehand) of being included on the GMC Specialist Register at the date of interview. The documentary evidence should be:

  • Either a RITA Form G (Final Record of Satisfactory Progress) or a letter from the postgraduate dean (or Faculty Adviser) specifying the date for completion of training AND
  • A letter from the Faculty confirming that the applicant has fully passed the Part B MFPH examination.

 

Remaining in a training post

The Orange Book and the local postgraduate dean are the sources of information about the constraints around remaining in a training post after the award of the CCT.

Annual assessments similar to the RITA are held for those permitted to remain. Their purpose is to confirm that the postholder is continuing to make satisfactory progress towards agreed training goals