Assistant Director: Prevention (Public Health Consultant)

Salary: Up to £91,836 annum plus a pro rata premium to reflect public health consultant pay scale and excellent benefits.
Contract: Permanent
Hours Per week: 37.5 hours per week 

The Health Foundation

We are an independent charitable organisation working to build a healthier UK.

Health is our most precious asset. Good health enables us to live happy, fulfilling lives, fuels our prosperity, and helps build a stronger society. Yet good health remains out of reach for too many people in the UK and services are struggling to provide access to timely, high-quality care.

It doesn’t have to be like this. Our mission is to help build a healthier UK by:

1. Improving people’s health and reducing inequalities
2. Supporting radical innovation and improvement in health and care services
3. Providing evidence and analysis to improve health and care policy.

We aim for excellence across our work and will achieve this by producing research and analysis, shaping policy and practice, building skills, knowledge, and capacity, and acting as a catalyst for change.

Everyone has a stake and a part to play in improving our health. By working together, we can build a healthier UK.

About the role

A unique opportunity to lead an influential and leading- edge portfolio of work to position the Health Foundation as a leading voice on public health and prevention policy and practice in the UK. You will ensure the Foundation delivers a strong portfolio of in-house research, commissioned work and convening activities to ensure the Foundation makes relevant, timely and innovative contributions and commentary to UK prevention policy and practice. This includes work across local, regional and national government, as well as in the NHS and wider health and public health landscape.

• Set an ambitious strategy for the Health Foundation’s prevention and public health agenda by engaging with new frontiers in public health and prevention, this may include areas such as the wider determinants of health, commercial determinants of health, risk factors for ill health, and personalised prevention including the role of technology, AI and genomics.
• Maintain our position as a trusted voice on policy on risk factors including tobacco, obesity, and alcohol and develop our positions in light of external environment
• Provide expert input to the Health Foundation’s understanding and influencing of the role of the NHS in prevention, including primary care and integrated care systems.
• Provide professional advice to shape the Foundation’s work on analysis of health trends, ensuring the work delivers novel insights and producing expert commentary when required.
• Provide motivating leadership to a team of public health professionals and multi-disciplinary colleagues from across the Foundation.

How to apply

*Applicants going through the portfolio registration routes (GMC or UKPHR) are not eligible to be shortlisted for interview until they are included on the register. The six-month rule does not apply to these portfolio route applicants.

Our priority is to find the right individual for each opportunity. We are dedicated to building an inclusive workplace that values diversity and invite you to find out more.

You can find the job description for this role Here.

Please upload your application via the Anderson Quigley website.

If you would like to apply, please submit your CV, and using no more than 1500 words answer the following application questions:

Please include role specific questions

1. Are you currently included on the GMC or UKPHR register?
2. Describe a time when you have delivered a strategy to affect change in the field of prevention. What were the key components of your strategy and how were you able to use system leadership skills to influence people or organisations where you didn’t have direct responsibility.
3. How have you contributed to shaping policy on health improvement, for example on risk factors such as tobacco, obesity, or alcohol, in your previous roles? Provide a specific example of your input and the impact it had on public health outcomes.
4. Share an example of how you provided motivating leadership to a multidisciplinary team. How did you ensure effective collaboration and ensure quality expectations were met in prevention research or policy?
5. Outline your thoughts on an emerging theme in prevention where you think the Health Foundation could have impact and how this could be achieved.

The Health Foundation’s Commitment to Inclusion and Diversity

We are committed to an inclusive hiring process, where every candidate has the chance to showcase their unique skills and experience in an accessible, and supported environment, to ensure that we can make the best appointment for each job on merit.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and encourage those from underrepresented groups in this field to apply to us.

We have identified three diverse groups, In particular, we want to achieve a better balance across our organisation between men and women, increase representation of people from black and ethnic minority backgrounds and recruit more people with disabilities. As part of this commitment, we particularly welcome applications from these groups.

Apply to join our team and let’s work towards building a diverse and inclusive workplace together.

If you require any support through this process, please contact our recruitment partners at Anderson Quigley, Helene Usherwood, Senior Partner (Helene.usherwood@andersonquigley.com / 07719 322 669) or Elyse Turner-Pearce, Consultant (elyse.turner-pearce@andersonquigley.com / 07808 648 559). Help us work together to make the recruitment process and potential future employment more accessible and enjoyable for you.

Closing date: Monday 02 June 2025
Preliminary interview with Anderson Quigley, via Teams: Tuesday 10 June – Friday 13 June
Final panel interview:  Friday 20 June

*As part of the final panel interview process, you will be asked to complete a written task to send in advance and prepare a presentation for the day