About the Organisation:
Public Health Scotland launched 1st April 2020 as a national health board, employing around 1200 people, and with an annual budget of around £101 million. Public Health Scotland wants to see a Scotland where everybody thrives, a Scotland where life expectancy improves and the difference in life expectancy between our poorest and wealthiest areas gets smaller.
As Scotland’s lead national agency for improving and protecting the health and wellbeing of all of Scotland’s people, our focus is on increasing healthy life expectancy and reducing premature mortality. To do this, we use data, intelligence and a place-based approach to lead and deliver Scotland’s public health priorities.
The role of the Clinical and Protecting Health Directorate is to protect the people of Scotland from infectious and environmental hazards; enable high-quality clinical and public health knowledge, research and innovation; and support improvement of clinical and public health practice by using audits at a national and local level.
The Post:
This exciting and valued post will provide expert health protection nurse input to the Field Epidemiology Team (FET)within the Clinical and Protecting Health Directorate of PHS. FET aims to provide a national service in support of NHS health boards, other partners and the PHS national response to new health protection incidents, involving cases and outbreaks of infectious diseases and threats or incidents of environmental exposures. FET is part of the Environment and Emergency Response Division at PHS. This post is offered on a permanent basis, expressions of interest as secondments up to two years are welcome.
The Candidate:
You will be a member of the FET Team reporting to the FET Team lead and the lead Consultant in Public Health. You will play a key role in the public health preparedness, training and management of health protection issues.
You must be on the NMC register, have a relevant first level nursing degree. With evidence of further professional development in a relevant area, master’s level is desirable.
You must have substantial post-registration nursing experience, including significant experience in Health Protection. You will be self-motivated and pro-active with the ability to work independently under direction but also to function well within a team setting.
You must have good analytical, judgemental, communication and computer skills.