Recruitment 2025/26

Please join us for our 2026 recruitment session. Please register here - School of Public Health - Registrar Recruitment Information Session 2026

Open Day for Public Health Registrar Recruitment October 2025

Slides are available - here 

You can scroll through the video to hear about the experiences of our Registrars and Consultants:

1. Introduction from Helen Christmas – Training Programme Director

2. School of Public Health and Specialty Training  Programme - Helen Christmas

3. Opportunities Working with Local Authorities - Carrie Abbott – Service Director Barnsley MBC

4. Working with OHID (Office of Health Improvement and Disparities) - Chris Sharp – Workforce Development Manager, OHID

5. Working in the Acute sector - Andy Snell – Consultant in Public & Global Health

6. Working in Academia - Kelly Mackenzie – Sheffield University

7. Experiences as a Public Health Registrar - Bebhinn Browne – ST4 Registrar

8. Working with UKHSA (United Kingdom Health Security Agency) - Simon Padfield/Pete Hudson – ST5 Registrar

9. The Application Process - Elizabeth Westwood – ST3 Registrar

10. Q & A Session - Helen Christmas / All Speakers

Recruitment is managed nationally via East Midlands and all enquiries are via email or see their website

An FAQ document is available here

The Faculty of Public Health provides a wealth of information and is the best place to find out about the application process. The Yorkshire and Humber region usually holds its recruitment event every October, ahead of the application process opening in November through Oriel. Please contact us if you wish to be on the circulation list for the next event.

Please ​review all three sections in the Recruitment and Retention part of this website 

Please watch this Introduction to Public Health video by the Wessex Deanery.

Information about the Specialty Training recruitment process is available on the Faculty of Public Health website: National Public Health Specialty Training Recruitment - FPH - Faculty of Public Health

Details about the application process can be found here: Public Health | Medical Hub (hee.nhs.uk)

Person Specification including eligibility: Public Health ST1 2025 | Medical Hub (hee.nhs.uk)

Successful candidates could be working in any one of the 15 councils across Yorkshire. After the successful candidates have been made an offer, The Head of school, and potential Educational Supervisors will be in contact to make sure there is capacity in the candidates desired location.

TPDs try to allocate posts that are reasonably commutable to the candidate’s current geographical position. For example, if a registrar lives in West Yorkshire, it would be one of the 5 councils in West Yorkshire, and so on across the county.

Please visit the Faculty of Public Health website for full recruitment information.

New registrars will usually start the training programme on the first Wednesday of August following their appointment.  Our school holds an induction day at the start of every training year to welcome and introduce new registrars to the training programme, and to provide an opportunity to meet current registrars and trainers in the region. The day also provides some insight into the public health work in the region that registrars can get involved in, and gives new trainees a chance to get to know each other and learn about their diverse backgrounds. 

Registrars will also receive further induction at their first training location (one of the local authorities across Yorkshire and the Humber), arranged directly by the training placement.

We have produced a “New Public Health Registrar Unofficial Guide" to help new trainees at the start of their training and to familiarise them with the school.  This is distributed when trainees start.

Forms to complete

1. TIS self service

All Registrars must complete their Form R part A and part B in addition to their Conditions of Joining a Specialty Training Programme via TIS self service. 

You can access TIS self-service here.

For specific queries, please redirect your email to england.tis.yh@nhs.net

2. Faculty of Public Health enrolment

All registrars in public health training are required to enrol with the Faculty (FPH) and pay an annual Training & Membership fee, due within three months of commencing training. The fee covers your enrolment, membership and ongoing fees associated with training. It does not include examination fees.

You must enrol in order to:

• gain access to the training ePortfolio.
• sit the diplomate (DFPH) and membership (MFPH) examination as a registrar on the public health training scheme.
• qualify for a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in public health or register as a Generalist Specialist with the UKPHR.

If you have any questions, please email educ@fph.org.uk.

3. Masters in Public Health enrolment

Our school currently supports all of our registrars to complete a MPH, if not previously undertaken.  This learning opportunity introduces registrars to key public health concepts and provides the broad range of knowledge and skills necessary to practice public health as a specialist.  Taught modules, consisting of compulsory core and a choice of elective modules, are studied, in addition to undertaking a dissertation project, in which independent research skills are put to practice in an in-depth piece of work

A MPH can be undertaken at the Universities of York or Sheffield.  The structure, content and delivery of the courses vary between the universities and registrars are asked to consider which Master’s programme best suits their needs and which to therefore apply for.

4 days or equivalent pro rata is allocated during the first year for registrars to attend taught MPH modules and complete relevant assignments/ dissertation.

Details of the regional Master's programmes can be found in the individual university websites:

University of Sheffield

University of York

If registrars have previously completed an equivalent Masters they should discuss their academic training needs with the Training Programme Director, as top up modules or reduced training time may be considered.