70 Infection Prevention jobs in the United Kingdom

• Develop, implement, and evaluate comprehensive infection prevention and control programs.
• Establish and enforce policies and procedures to minimize the risk of infection transmission.
• Lead and manage a team of infection control practitioners and support staff.
• Conduct regular risk assessments and surveillance for healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).
• Investigate outbreaks and implement control measures effectively.
• Provide expert advice and guidance on infection control best practices to all staff.
• Develop and deliver training programs for healthcare professionals on infection prevention.
• Monitor compliance with infection control standards and provide recommendations for improvement.
• Collaborate with local and national public health agencies on infectious disease matters.
• Manage the procurement and use of infection control supplies and equipment.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest research, guidelines, and technologies in infection prevention and control.
• Prepare reports and present data on infection rates and control initiatives to senior management.

• Master's degree in Nursing, Public Health, Microbiology, or a related healthcare field.
• Significant experience (minimum 7 years) in infection prevention and control, with substantial leadership experience.
• Professional certification in Infection Control (e.g., CIC) is highly desirable.
• In-depth knowledge of infectious diseases, epidemiology, and antimicrobial resistance.
• Proven ability to develop and implement effective infection control strategies.
• Strong leadership, team management, and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
• Proficiency in data collection, analysis, and reporting.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to work effectively with diverse groups of healthcare professionals.
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and regulatory requirements.

Overview:

One of my local government clients is seeking a skilled and motivated Public Health Officer to join their Public Health Team on a temporarybasis. This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to the health and wellbeing of residents through innovative, evidence-based, and community-driven public health initiatives.

Key Areas of Work:

The role supports work across three core public health domains:

1. Health Improvement

• Deliver community-based programmes (e.g., smoking cessation, NHS Health Checks, physical activity).

• Tackle health inequalities by addressing wider determinants such as housing and environment.

• Promote healthy lifestyles through education and engagement initiatives.

2. Health Protection

• Support vaccination and screening programmes.

• Help manage and monitor responses to communicable diseases and environmental hazards.

• Contribute to emergency preparedness and response strategies.

3. Healthcare Public Health

• Work on the development of evidence-based care pathways.

• Support service improvement using health data and health economics insights.

• Assist with Joint Strategic Needs Assessments and healthcare commissioning.

Main Responsibilities:

• Manage a portfolio of public health contracts (e.g., drug and alcohol treatment, smoking cessation, sexual health, mental health).

• Support procurement and commissioning of services.

• Plan and deliver public health programmes aligned with local and national priorities.

• Work collaboratively across departments, agencies, and external partners.

• Promote integration of public health into broader strategies (e.g., housing, climate change, community safety).

Candidate Requirements:

• Relevant qualifications or demonstrable experience in Public Health or related discipline.

• Strong knowledge of public health systems, policy, and service delivery.

• Proven experience in managing public health programmes or contracts.

• Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and project management skills.

• Experience working in local government or NHS setting is desirable.

If interested in this role please send your CV to Lee-Jaun at Coyle Personnel Ltd.

Overview:

One of my local government clients is seeking a skilled and motivated Public Health Officer to join their Public Health Team on a temporarybasis. This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to the health and wellbeing of residents through innovative, evidence-based, and community-driven public health initiatives.

Key Areas of Work:

The role supports work across three core public health domains:

1. Health Improvement

• Deliver community-based programmes (e.g., smoking cessation, NHS Health Checks, physical activity).

• Tackle health inequalities by addressing wider determinants such as housing and environment.

• Promote healthy lifestyles through education and engagement initiatives.

2. Health Protection

• Support vaccination and screening programmes.

• Help manage and monitor responses to communicable diseases and environmental hazards.

• Contribute to emergency preparedness and response strategies.

3. Healthcare Public Health

• Work on the development of evidence-based care pathways.

• Support service improvement using health data and health economics insights.

• Assist with Joint Strategic Needs Assessments and healthcare commissioning.

Main Responsibilities:

• Manage a portfolio of public health contracts (e.g., drug and alcohol treatment, smoking cessation, sexual health, mental health).

• Support procurement and commissioning of services.

• Plan and deliver public health programmes aligned with local and national priorities.

• Work collaboratively across departments, agencies, and external partners.

• Promote integration of public health into broader strategies (e.g., housing, climate change, community safety).

Candidate Requirements:

• Relevant qualifications or demonstrable experience in Public Health or related discipline.

• Strong knowledge of public health systems, policy, and service delivery.

• Proven experience in managing public health programmes or contracts.

• Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and project management skills.

• Experience working in local government or NHS setting is desirable.

If interested in this role please send your CV to Lee-Jaun at Coyle Personnel Ltd.

Description

Our local government clients are recruiting a Public Health Administrator. To provide adequate administrative support to the Public Health Directorate.

Your Key Responsibilities will include:

To ensure that customer service always remains a high priority, and to act as a point of contact for service through telephone, email, internet, or face-to-face enquiries, ensuring all queries are resolved or redirected as appropriate. To cover Reception and associated duties in respect of all visitors, including signing in/out and directing them to the proper venue.

Qualification – Essential

• GCSE Grade (or equivalent) in English Language and Mathematics.
li>NVQ2 or equivalent (including English and Mathematics)
• A certified qualification in computer literacy, such as ECDL, is desirable.
• Advanced –Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, Outlook, Social Media and CRM.

Qualifications, Knowledge, and Experience Requirements - Criteria to be Evaluated at the Shortlisting Stage.

< i>Demonstrable experience of providing Excellent Customer Service standards in a customer-facing Environment.
• Considerable experience working in an administrative role.
• Significant experience in office systems, including the production of correspondence and reports, filing, arranging and minuting meetings, dealing with incoming enquiries, diary management, and document copying & scanning, keeping records, setting up & using IT equipment.
• Considerable experience in setting up and managing administrative/financial systems.
• Has demonstrable expertise and experience in information technology (e.g. WORD, EXCEL) in an office environment.
• Experience in producing manual and computerised reports.
• Demonstrable experience of working in community settings, involving interface with the public.
• An understanding of local authority administrative procedures.
• Basic knowledge and understanding of health and safety legislation.
• Good communication skills, oral and written, are essential.
• The ability to convey and record information accurately is essential.
• Maintaining accurate records is essential.
• A methodical approach to working practices with the ability to work on one's own initiative.
• Experience in working to tight time-scales and deadlines.
• Awareness of the sensitive nature of work and the need for confidentiality.
• Ability to work regularly outside 'normal' office hours, including duties at weekends, some evenings, and on Bank Holidays if required.
• A willingness to undertake appropriate training.

Essential Compliance Requirements

• 3 Years References
• Standard DBS level is required
• A pre-engagement screening is mandatory for this role. Please be prepared for this additional step in the application process.

Diamond Blaque Group, a leading provider in the public sector, is acting as an employment agency for this vacancy. Our organisation is deeply committed to fostering an environment of equal opportunity and diversity in the workplace.  

Senior Public Health Engineer - Bath
Join an award-winning consultancy driving sustainable design and net zero goals. We're seeking a skilled Senior Public Health Engineer to contribute to innovative, high-impact projects within our dynamic, multidisciplinary team.

About Us
We are a leading consultancy committed to engineering excellence and sustainability. With a strong track record of industry recognition, we focus on delivering cutting-edge solutions that shape the built environment.

The Role
Lead public health engineering design, calculations, and sustainability-driven solutions.

Ensure projects meet high standards, deadlines, and budgets.

Represent the company in meetings with clients, architects, and stakeholders.

Produce reports, specifications, and Revit-based designs.

Mentor junior engineers and contribute to knowledge sharing.

Experience & Skills
Extensive public health engineering and building services experience.

Proven leadership on complex projects.

Strong understanding of sustainable design and net zero targets.

Chartered or working towards CIBSE membership (or equivalent).

Benefits
Competitive salary, discretionary bonus, and pension scheme.

Hybrid working (minimum 3 days in Bath office).

25 days annual leave + flexible options.

Wellbeing support, professional memberships, and career development.

Enhanced parental leave and flexible benefits.

Be part of a forward-thinking team shaping the future of sustainable engineering. Apply now!

Eden Brown is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.

Consultant in Public Health - Maidstone, England

- Join Kent County Council

Job Title: Consultant in Public Health leading in Health Intelligence, Research and Development, Education and Training

Location: Maidstone, Kent, England - Hybrid

Contract Type : Full-Time, Permanent

Salary: 89,579 to 109,309 per annum (With potential to offer a market premium dependent on experience)

Interview Date : 12th September 2025

Closing date: 9am Monday 25th August 2025

Are you looking to improve the health and wellbeing of residents, reduce health inequalities and protect local communities in Kent?

Why join Kent?

Kent is the one of the largest local authorities in the UK, with a circa 1.7m population, 12 districts and boroughs, a co-terminus NHS Integrated Care Board, and vibrant townships and communities. With a long and interesting history, and being the garden of England, it also the gateway to Europe and in turn its gateway to the UK. With 350 miles of coastline and major coastal inequalities; it is UK's first Marmot Coastal Region. It has two major universities and a medical school, and seven NHS Trusts operating in the county. In Kent size matters and working here gives a Consultant in Public Health the biggest possible canvas to work on.

Kent is at a very exciting juncture in its public health journey, having just signed off the delivery plan of its Kent and Medway Integrated Care Strategy which is the blueprint agreed at the most senior leadership levels to improve health and wellbeing, and reduce health inequalities.

None of this is possible without strong data analytics, useable intelligence, strong evidence, and pragmatic research and innovation.

Role overview

Kent is looking to appoint an innovative and forward-thinking Consultant in Public Health to join its highly regarded and well-resourced Public Health Division and help to drive its exciting agenda forward.

The council has a highly experienced team working with its Director of Public Health, including a Deputy director as well as six additional Public Health consultants all working to achieve the aspirations of its members for improving the health and wellbeing of the Kent population.

Kent Public Health is aiming to become a Centre of Excellence, undertaking a range of innovative activities in research, innovation and improvement, advanced analytics (using integrated data and predictive modelling) and offering increased number of education and training placements for multiple professional groups such as Public Health Speciality Registrars, junior doctors and university students. Kent enjoys national recognition for several programmes including Public Health research linked with Europe. The successful candidate will play a leading role continuing this work and spearheading this journey.

You will be responsible for the line management of public health specialists as well as a dedicated budget for this area of the service. You will lead on the education and training function which includes responsibility for maintaining and improving its department's specialist training location for speciality registrars and other professional groups.

Part of this role will involve overseeing the development of the JSNA which will includes regular reporting to strategic boards. As well as developing and utilising information and intelligence systems to underpin public health action across disciplines and organisations, leading collation, and interpretation of relevant data.

The public health function is well integrated into the council, supports the Kent and Medway Integrated Care System and has an overall Public Health budget of circa 92 million with a major focus on reducing health inequalities.

Candidates

You will need inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List/UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialists (with a license to practice) or be within 6 months of CCT at the date of interview.

You could be newly qualified and seeking your first Consultant post or an experienced Consultant looking for an opportunity to make a real impact. As a passionate and motivated public health professional we welcome your interest in this role and your application.

You will be able to work in a hybrid format with a split between working from home with an office base as Maidstone and we are committed to flexible working: "Work that works for you and us - let's talk flexibility!"

Next Steps

This is a great time to join Kent - it's a great county to live in, with its proximity to London, its excellent schools, vibrant cities, golden beaches, and stunning countryside.

For a confidential discussion, and to see the full JD and candidate pack, please contact Rebecca Martin at Panoramic Associates on (phone number removed) or Callum Gardiner on (phone number removed).

To apply: Complete the short form below and include your Curriculum Vitae and personal statement.

Please note that the successful candidate will be required to participate in enhanced pre-employment screening undertaken by the County Council.

Consultant in Public Health - Maidstone, England

- Join Kent County Council

Job Title: Consultant in Public Health leading in Health Intelligence, Research and Development, Education and Training

Location: Maidstone, Kent, England - Hybrid

Contract Type : Full-Time, Permanent

Salary: 89,579 to 109,309 per annum (With potential to offer a market premium dependent on experience)

Interview Date : 12th September 2025

Closing date: 9am Monday 25th August 2025

Are you looking to improve the health and wellbeing of residents, reduce health inequalities and protect local communities in Kent?

Why join Kent?

Kent is the one of the largest local authorities in the UK, with a circa 1.7m population, 12 districts and boroughs, a co-terminus NHS Integrated Care Board, and vibrant townships and communities. With a long and interesting history, and being the garden of England, it also the gateway to Europe and in turn its gateway to the UK. With 350 miles of coastline and major coastal inequalities; it is UK's first Marmot Coastal Region. It has two major universities and a medical school, and seven NHS Trusts operating in the county. In Kent size matters and working here gives a Consultant in Public Health the biggest possible canvas to work on.

Kent is at a very exciting juncture in its public health journey, having just signed off the delivery plan of its Kent and Medway Integrated Care Strategy which is the blueprint agreed at the most senior leadership levels to improve health and wellbeing, and reduce health inequalities.

None of this is possible without strong data analytics, useable intelligence, strong evidence, and pragmatic research and innovation.

Role overview

Kent is looking to appoint an innovative and forward-thinking Consultant in Public Health to join its highly regarded and well-resourced Public Health Division and help to drive its exciting agenda forward.

The council has a highly experienced team working with its Director of Public Health, including a Deputy director as well as six additional Public Health consultants all working to achieve the aspirations of its members for improving the health and wellbeing of the Kent population.

Kent Public Health is aiming to become a Centre of Excellence, undertaking a range of innovative activities in research, innovation and improvement, advanced analytics (using integrated data and predictive modelling) and offering increased number of education and training placements for multiple professional groups such as Public Health Speciality Registrars, junior doctors and university students. Kent enjoys national recognition for several programmes including Public Health research linked with Europe. The successful candidate will play a leading role continuing this work and spearheading this journey.

You will be responsible for the line management of public health specialists as well as a dedicated budget for this area of the service. You will lead on the education and training function which includes responsibility for maintaining and improving its department's specialist training location for speciality registrars and other professional groups.

Part of this role will involve overseeing the development of the JSNA which will includes regular reporting to strategic boards. As well as developing and utilising information and intelligence systems to underpin public health action across disciplines and organisations, leading collation, and interpretation of relevant data.

The public health function is well integrated into the council, supports the Kent and Medway Integrated Care System and has an overall Public Health budget of circa 92 million with a major focus on reducing health inequalities.

Candidates

You will need inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List/UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialists (with a license to practice) or be within 6 months of CCT at the date of interview.

You could be newly qualified and seeking your first Consultant post or an experienced Consultant looking for an opportunity to make a real impact. As a passionate and motivated public health professional we welcome your interest in this role and your application.

You will be able to work in a hybrid format with a split between working from home with an office base as Maidstone and we are committed to flexible working: "Work that works for you and us - let's talk flexibility!"

Next Steps

This is a great time to join Kent - it's a great county to live in, with its proximity to London, its excellent schools, vibrant cities, golden beaches, and stunning countryside.

For a confidential discussion, and to see the full JD and candidate pack, please contact Rebecca Martin at Panoramic Associates on (phone number removed) or Callum Gardiner on (phone number removed).

To apply: Complete the short form below and include your Curriculum Vitae and personal statement.

Please note that the successful candidate will be required to participate in enhanced pre-employment screening undertaken by the County Council.