Clinical and Public Health Fellow

An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated registrar in Infectious Diseases, Medical Microbiology, Virology, public health or paediatrics (including paediatric infectious diseases) to join UKHSA as a clinical fellow.

This fellowship is an outstanding opportunity for the individual to gain experience and expertise at a national level in areas including investigation and management of major incidents and outbreaks; infectious disease surveillance; guidance and policy development and implementation; research; service development and improvement including close collaborative work across regional reference laboratories, directorate and divisions.

An individual plan will be agreed with the Fellow depending on prior experience and interests, setting out their duties and objectives. The agreement will be tailored to take in consideration the both the needs of the Directorate/Division and the individual. It will include objective setting and mapping expected outputs and timescales for any projects.

There is a fellowship opportunity available for 12 month Out of Programme Experiences (OOPE) post to commence April 2027. This is aimed at Infectious Diseases, Medical Microbiology, Virology and Public Health registrars currently on training programmes with a National Training Number (NTN). The registrar MUST have OOPE/OOPT approval in principle from their TPD.

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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External

Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants).

STAGE 1 – Application & Sift:

Applicants must read, sign and return the declaration form to the SCS MD Recruitment Team - SCS.MDrecruitment@ukhsa.gov.uk when submitting their application. This is required in order for the application to be assessed; without it, we will be unable to consider the application.

Applicants should read the attached document listing the available placements. They are required to express up to three placement preferences, in order of preference, within their Statement of Suitability. Placement allocation will be based on merit.

You will be required to complete an application form. You will be assessed on essential criteria, and this will be in the form of

• an Application form (‘Employer/ Activity history’ section on the application)
• up to 1500 word Statement of Suitability.

You will also be required to read, sign and return the declaration form

This should outline how your skills, experience, and knowledge, provide evidence of your suitability for the role.

You will receive a joint score for your application form and statement. (The application form is the kind of information you would put into your C.V –please be advised you will not be able to upload your CV. Please complete the application form in as much detail as possible)

If we receive a large number of applications an initial sift against the lead essential criterion will be conducted: "Specialist trainee in infectious diseases, microbiology, virology, public health or paediatrics (undertaking a specialty training programme with national training number).

Shortlisting:

We will only take through applications that meet all essential criteria.

Please note feedback will not be provided at this stage.

Unfortunately, late applications will not be considered.

Stage 2: Interview (competency based)

You will be invited to a remote interview.

Interviews will be held week commencing 7th December 2026.

This vacancy is being assessed using the person specification. During the interview we will assess against the below:

Knowledge, Experience, Skills and Abilities

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Successful candidates for this role must pass an enhanced disclosure and barring security check before they can be appointed.

If you have spent more than 6 months abroad over the last 3 years you may need an International Police Check. This would not necessarily have to be in a single block, and it could be time accrued over that period.

If successful for this role as one aspect of pre-employment screening, applicant’s personal details – name, national insurance number and date of birth - will be checked against the Cabinet Office Internal Fraud Hub and anyone included on the database will be refused employment unless they can show exceptional circumstances. Currently this is only for External candidates to the Civil Service.

For further information about specific posts please contact the Postgraduate Training Faculty on pgtf@ukhsa.gov.uk

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.