• Advert number: 185435-0
• Posted Date: 11/12/08

Faculty of Public Health

www.fph.org.uk

4 St Andrews Place, London NW1 4LB. Tel: 020 7935 0243

Location of vacancies

2009 Central Recruitment for England and Wales:
Wales, East of England, London/Kent, Surrey & Sussex, North West, Northern, Yorkshire & the Humber, Oxford, Hampshire & Isle of Wight, South West, East Midlands, West Midlands, Defence Medical Services. There will also be vacancies in Scotland, which are being recruited to in a separate, National process.

Profile

Consultants in public health serve the population, whether they
are working for a rural community, a large city or the entire
national population. The principles remain the same: prevention
of ill health, promotion of healthy life styles and provision of
good health care services.

We are looking for doctors who are ready to undertake this
challenge. You may be:
• Just completing your F2 training and looking for your first
specialist training post or
• Already in a specialist training post but beginning to realise
that you would prefer to try and prevent disease rather than
treat it when it is already established or
• Already qualified in general practice or another specialty but
looking for a change of career.

Further information for those considering a career in Public
Health is available at www.fph.org.uk

MMC Recruitment timetables for 2009

MMC Scotland National Recruitment Process:
Advert & Applications Open – 1st December 2008
Applications Close – 5pm 12th December 2008
Shortlisting – 15th December 2008 – 28th February 2009
Interviews – early March 2009

Central Recruitment for England and Wales:
Week beginning 5 January 2009 Adverts appear
19 January 2009 Applications Close
2 – 4 February 2009 Invites to Assessment Centres
18 February 2009 Assessment Centres (psychometric testing)
6 March 2009 Shortlisting complete and invites to Selection Centres
16 – 20 March 2009 Selection Centres

MMC Recruitment responsibilities

Public Health Specialty Training ST1
We anticipate that there will be over 70 vacancies across England, Wales and Scotland. For further details on vacancies and regions, please go to www.mmc.nhs.uk, http://www.mmc.scot.nhs.uk/, http://www.mmc.scot.nhs.uk/speciality_apply.htm or www.fph.org.uk

Recruitment procedures

Scotland - Applications will be accepted from 1st December – 5pm 12th December 2008. Longlisting and shortlisting will be undertaken January through February 2009. Shortlisted candidates will attend an assessment and Selection Centre in early March.

England & Wales - Adverts will appear in the BMJ and Health Services Journal in the week of 5 January 2009. Applications will be longlisted and eligible candidates will be invited to attend an assessment centre. There are 4 assessment centres at various locations around England and candidates will be asked to sit 2 psychometric tests. Candidates reaching the minimum standard on these tests will then be put forward for shortlisting. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend a half day selection centre in the week beginning 16 March 2009. All posts will commence in August 2009.

Key personnel

David Williams, Academic Registrar, Faculty of Public Health
East Midlands Healthcare Workforce Deanery is co-ordinating the
Central Recruitment for England and Wales, the key contact is
Rebecca Reah: rebecca.reah@nottingham.ac.uk
Recruitment in Scotland is being co-ordinated by Dr Jim
Chalmers, Training Programme Director. His email address is
jim.chalmers@nhs.net

More information

Selection into Public Health Specialty training in 2009 is by
two co-ordinated recruitment processes. You are only
required to submit one application for training programmes
across England and Wales.

Applications open at 12 midday on the 5th January 2009 and will only be accepted through
the Central Recruitment to Public Health portal.