Deputy Director of Public Health

NHS Highland; Inverness; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Highland is seeking a Deputy Director of Public Health to lead health initiatives in the Inverness area. This substantive permanent role involves significant leadership, allowing the successful candidate to shape health strategies and tackle health inequalities, ensuring public health influence across the board. Excellent community links and a supportive environment for professional development enhance this opportunity.

Qualifications

• Must be on the Specialist Register of the GMC for Public Health Medicine.
• Conversant with population health leadership.
• Able to participate in the public health on-call rota.

Responsibilities

• Lead public health initiatives to improve health and wellbeing.
• Collaborate with partners to reduce health inequalities.
• Influence delivery of public health at local levels.

Skills

Leadership

Negotiation

Motivation

Flexibility

Cultural Understanding

Education

Medical qualification and Specialist Register for Public Health Medicine

UK Public Health Register certification

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04.07.2025

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18.08.2025

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Job Description:

Substantive Permanent Post

Salary Scale - Medical Consultant OR Agenda for Change Band 9

Hours – 10 Programmed Activities per week Medical Consultant

37 hours per week Agenda for change

Due to a promotion, NHS Highland is offering an exciting opportunity for someone looking to take up an appointment as the Deputy Director of Public Health. This post will have a key leadership role within the Health Board and across the Highland region. They will be responsible for population health advocacy, leadership and action, in collaboration with partners, to improve health and wellbeing, protect the public’s health and decrease health inequalities. As such, this post has a remit across the team, focusing on the delivery of our two strategic priorities of prevention and tackling health inequalities.

The post holder will be expected to ensure public health influences delivery at a local level throughout the Health Board area to maximise opportunities for prevention and earlier intervention for the improvement of health and wellbeing across our population. A high level of intellectual rigour, negotiation and motivation skills and flexibility is required to deal with complex public health issues, to advise and make recommendations regarding the wider determinants of health, services and patient care. A high level of tact and diplomacy is required and an ability to understand other cultures, to enable effective working across organisational boundaries and influencing without authority.

The post holder will be an aspiring or emerging leader who is: conversant with leadership in population health; committed to driving improvements in population health in one of the most rural / remote areas of Scotland; and capable of making a critical and valuable contribution to tackling inequalities and positively changing the lives of current and future generations.

NHS Highland serves a total population of around 325,000. Inverness, the capital of the Highlands, renowned for its beauty and quality of life which offers a lifestyle only dreamt of in other parts of the country will be your base. The successful applicant will need to attend meetings across the area and will be expected to be in Inverness for the equivalent of one to two days each week as a minimum.

The department trains Specialist Registrars and it would be desirable for the successful applicant to be an educational supervisor. You may also have the opportunity to contribute to undergraduate teaching if you wish to do so for University of Aberdeen and Scot Gem students. There are extensive up-to-date postgraduate and library facilities located on the Raigmore Hospital site (a ten-minute walk away). Good research links exist with the University of the Highlands and Islands.

Medical applicants should be on the Specialist Register of the GMC for Public Health Medicine. Applicants from a background other than medicine should be on the UKPHR or, if in a specialist training programme, be within 6 months of obtaining this at time of interview. The successful applicant will be required to participate in the public health on-call rota.

We welcome visits from potential applicants.

Closing date for applications is: 06/07/2025
Job reference: 217852
Interviews will be held during week commencing 11th August

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.