There are currently 28 Speciality Registrars including 2 ACFs (Academic Clinical Fellow) and 1 ACL (Academic Clinical Lecturer) on the training programme.

In addition

  • 9 F2 trainees per year
  • 1 Paediatric Fellowship (12 months) and 1 Cochrane Fellowship (12 months)

Training locations for the specialty programme:
You will be expected to spend a minimum of 12 months in a local authority. You are also required to spend a minimum of 4 months at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), Thames Valley Team (Chilton).

Since the COVID pandemic there has been a significant change in working practices across public health organisations.  Prior to 2020, public health training placements were office based.  Currently, most training placements offer hybrid working i.e. public health registrars will spend a proportion of their working week in the placement office and the remainder time working from home.  The proportion of office vs home working varies significantly by training placement.  Registrars are expected to work to the culture of their placement organisation  e.g. to attend the office on specific team office days.  To support hybrid working any registrars would be expected to:

  • Commute into the office in line with the placement culture or as agreed with their Educational Supervisor.
  • Have an appropriate area within their home, free from distraction, where they can undertake confidential conversations/interviews and ensure appropriate information governance for any patient identifiable or corporate information that registrars may access in their course of their work.  If this is not possible, registrars would be expected to attend the placement office for all of their working days.

Thames Valley local authority Public Health Departments include:
1. Buckinghamshire Council
2. Bracknell Forest Council
3. Milton Keynes City Council
4. Oxfordshire County Council
5. Reading Borough Council
6. Slough Borough Council
7. The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
8. West Berkshire Council
9. Wokingham Borough Council

 

 

 

Other available placements include:

  • Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Milton Keynes General Hospital
  • Oxford University Nuffield Department of Population Health (NDPH)
  • NDPH Teaching Fellow
  • British Heart Foundation Centre (BHFC)
  • Cancer Epidemiology Unit (CEU)
  • Centre on Population Approaches for Non-Communicable Disease (CPNP)
  • Clinical Trials Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU)
  • Oxford Centre for Ethics and Communication in Health Care (ETHOX)
  • Health Economics Research Centre (HERC)
  • National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU)
  • Office for Health Improvements and Disparities (OHID) (Chilton)
  • NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSE/I) – Healthcare Public Health
  • NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSE/I) – Screening and Immunisations
  • Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service, South East (LKIS)
  • Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards
  • Solutions for Public Health