Job Description - South West Peninsula Deanery

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There are also opportunities to work with academics in developing areas of research within the Medical School such as implementation science, realist evaluation, and health-service public health, and enquiries about work in these areas are welcome. Service Public Health training The service base will be within a Public Health department located in a local authority setting within the Peninsula Deanery boundary. The service base will be confirmed upon appointment. Exeter is the site of the newly created Health Protection Agency’s SW (South) Acute Response Centre, the hub and co-ordination point for health protection activity across Devon, Cornwall, Dorset and Somerset. As part of his or her training, the fellow will spend a threemonth attachment with the Health Protection Agency where his or her training will cover control of communicable diseases and environmental hazards. Teaching Public Health contributes to teaching on the undergraduate degree for medical students, including modules on evidence based medicine. There are also opportunities to contribute to the post-graduate programmes. All new lecturing staff joining the University can attend a parttime Teaching and Learning Programme. This provides, on a modular basis, a practical introduction to teaching in Higher Education. The successful applicant would be expected to actively participate in the school’s undergraduate medical student teaching programme and post-graduate programme. The training programme The post will be supported by established supervisors (one educational, one academic) who will regularly review training needs based on the Faculty of Public Health’s assessment guidelines. On the basis of joint review with the fellow, a suitable training programme will be agreed and regularly updated, to ensure satisfactory progress towards obtaining the Certificate of Completion of Training in Public Health. All Fellows will be part of the region’s existing programme of Annual Review of Competency Progression (ARCP) reviews. Academic time will be protected and will be based in a different location from NHS service work. There will be more academic sessions in the earlier part of training as the trainee prepares their research training fellowship application. A Public Health tutorial programme is co-ordinated for all trainees within the region. A programme of update sessions on communicable disease/environmental health topics is led by the Health Protection Agency. Within the local Public Health Network there are CPD/Governance/Audit meetings and 4
attendance records are kept. All staff are part of an annual process of Individual Performance and Development Review. Academic clinical fellowships in public health will have direct access to PCMD’s NIHR approved research training programme that is available to all ACFs in the Peninsula region. Typical examples of research training opportunities can be viewed on PCMD’s website via this link http://www.pcmd.ac.uk/postgraduate.php?tab=research_training Milestones Year One The fellow will take a Masters in Public Health (MPH) and additional training in preparation for the Part A membership of the Faculty of Public Health. They can attend the five-day pre-Part A course organised by the University of Bristol School of Social and Community Medicine. The fellow will keep in regular contact with their trainers, meeting them two to three times per term. They will sit MFPH Part A towards the end of the year. Year Two: Three to three-and-a-half days per week NHS service work (based in the PCT) and the remaining time in the academic centre developing research ideas / papers and engaging in a small amount of teaching. As research fellowship applications will need to be submitted in the early part of Year Three, a greater amount of academic contact will occur in year Two compared to year Three. Cross cover arrangements will not be required to cover public health on-call commitments. Fellows will have monthly three-way meetings with both supervisors to co-ordinate and review the training programme. The fellow will have more frequent (every one to two weeks) dedicated one-hour meetings with their educational supervisor and academic supervisor. Year Three By the third year of the fellowship the fellow will be expected to have submitted for publication in peer-reviewed journals two to three papers and to have presented at one or two national Public Health conferences. Final preparation of the research fellowship application will be led by the candidate with support from their academic trainer, the fellowship supervisor(s) and appropriate research staff in Peninsula (statisticians / economists / qualitative researchers as required). Contact with the academics will decrease to a regular single day per week after the research fellowship applications have been submitted. Regular meetings with the educational supervisor and academic supervisor will continue throughout the year. At the end of the three-year post, post-holders who are successful in obtaining a doctoral fellowship award will apply to the Faculty of Public Health and the Deanery for time ‘out of programme’ to complete their PhD. During the ‘out of programme’ time, it is expected that the post-holder will become an employee of the relevant University. Programme Management and Administration 5
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