You will strengthen the academic base of Public Health Medicine within the Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences (MDBS) at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) and the Public Health Agency (PHA) working as part of both the PHA and QUB academic teams specialising in public health and epidemiology.
Your academic responsibilities will involve undertaking research in line with the School’s research strategy, teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and contributing to School’s administration/outreach activity. You will contribute to strategic objectives relating to research, education, innovation and international impact, aligned with investments in Belfast Region City Deal which aim to create an integrated ecosystem for health and life sciences.
You will run programmes of research that are relevant to the School’s research strategy, addressing the major risk factors impacting public health (e.g. diet and other lifestyle factors). You will increase the links between the Public Health ecosystem and researchers in CPH / MDBS and develop national and international links to progress such research activities.
You will also provide specialist leadership, advice and support to the PHA and deliver public health duties to meet the objectives of your team. As part of this, you will be responsible for leading the planning and delivery of complex public health work programmes within multidisciplinary teams and working collaboratively with colleagues. In discharging these responsibilities, you will maintain and develop effective working relationships with a wide variety of individuals and organisations involved with protecting and improving the health of the population, providing expert knowledge and guidance. In particular, you will need to work closely with others in the local, regional and national partners including the Department of Health, the Strategic Planning and Performance Group, Health and Social Care Trusts, Primary Care, local Councils, Community & Voluntary sector partners, UKHSA, PH Scotland, PH Wales and the Health Service Executive in Ireland.
About the person:
The post is available at Lecturer or Senior Lecturer academic grades. Please indicate which grade you are applying for and address the relevant essential criteria in your application.
The essential education and qualification requirements for both academic grades are as follows:
To be successful at shortlisting stage, please ensure you clearly evidence in your application how you meet the essential and, where applicable, desirable criteria listed in the Candidate Information.
What we offer:
Beyond a competitive salary, the University offers an attractive benefits package including a holiday entitlement of up to 8.4 weeks a year, pension schemes and development opportunities. We support staff wellbeing with flexible working options, work-life balance initiatives and support for physical and mental health. You can find more detail on all of this and more at https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/HumanResources/pay-reward-and-benefits/.
Queen's University is committed to promoting equality of opportunity to all. We subscribe to Equality Charter Marks such as the Diversity Charter Mark NI and Athena Swan and have established staff networks such as iRise (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and International Staff Network) and PRISM (LGBTQ+) which help us progress equality.
For further information on our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, please visit www.qub.ac.uk/diversity.
If you are an international applicant and don't already hold a visa that permits you to take up the role you are applying for, please use the information provided on our website to self-assess whether the University is likely to be able to support a visa application - http://go.qub.ac.uk/internationalstaffsupport.
Candidate Information - Senior Lecturer
Candidate Information - Lecturer
Further information relating to public health practice responsibilities