Recruitment and new starters
Recruitment 2025/26
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.
Useful links:
There are 4 more arranged public health online drop-in sessions for potential applicants to be able to talk to a current registrar.
Please see dates and times below (Scan QR code to access or click the link below):
Wednesday 22nd October 12-1pmThursday 6th November 4-5pmMonday 17th November 12-2pm- Monday 1st December 8.30am-9.30am
The link to access the drop in sessions is https://us04web.zoom.us/s/96314114061?pwd=aWS3DSPt63BONnQVsvGpjviOeOmvvD.1#success
Meeting ID: 963 1411 4061 and Passcode: 4AVaMx
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:
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.
The Faculty of Public Health have advised the following regarding professional indemnity:
“You must take out adequate insurance or professional indemnity cover for any part of your practice not covered by an employer’s indemnity scheme, in the interest of all individuals and groups you work with, as well as your own.”