The South East LEP (SELEP) is committed to achieving inclusive growth, ensuring that all in society can benefit from significant opportunity such as Public Health England’s relocation to Harlow. Working with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), local authorities and a range of other partners this event is the first step in delivering against that commitment.
You will hear from:
- Dame Carol Black (who advises the government on work and health), Rt Hon
- Robert Halfon MP
- a range of experts from the Essex Employment and Skills Board, Essex and Kent County Councils and DWP.
You will also hear about the range of support already available to employers and individuals, through workshop discussions you can help us shape the future of inclusive growth locally to ensure it works for everyone.
Where and when
When: Thursday, 27 September 2018 from 09:30 to 15:00 (BST)
Where: Harlow College,Velizy Avenue, CM20 3EZ
Register:
Please note registration closes on the 18th September.
About PHE Harlow
Public Health England (PHE) considered several options before choosing acquire the vacant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) site in Harlow.
The site offers a state of-the-art science facility with laboratories and support facilities already in place, which we can adapt and extend to meet PHE’s current and future needs.
The facility and site is large enough to co-locate all of the services that will transfer from PHE’s Porton and Colindale sites as well as our headquarters and national functions currently based in central London. In addition it will allow PHE to bring together a critical mass of scientists and knowledge that will strengthen the organisation, our research and our ability to improve and protect public health.
Harlow location
Another important factor is Harlow’s location in the London-Stansted-Cambridge life sciences corridor (LSCC). There are 37 life sciences research institutes in the LSCCcorridor and 1,400 life sciences businesses.
PHE works with both academic and commercial partners, so together with the infrastructure and pool of scientific and technical talent, as well as the town’s long standing links to science, Harlow is an ideal location for PHE.
The Harlow site is positioned next to the town’s dedicated Enterprise Zone, which has a specific focus on the life sciences sector.
Harlow also has good transport links to central London via direct train services and internationally via Stansted Airport.
Jobs and training
PHE’s public health science campus and headquarters will ultimately see up to 2,750 staff based at the site in 2024, following a phased opening from 2021.
Scientists and technicians will be the largest group of staff working at PHE Harlow but we will also need people with a wide range of other skills ranging from:
- finance
- human resources (HR)
- communications
- marketing
- security
- maintenance
- catering
- administration