Health Protection Practitioner - London, United Kingdom - UK Health Security Agency

UK Health Security Agency

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London, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Description

As the Health Protection Practitioner (Level 2) your main responsibilities will include: The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities, and duties: Contribute to and support the day to day running of the acute response function to ensure high quality, safe and effective delivery of the health protection service.

Provide first point of contact specialist knowledge, support, and advice to health professionals on health protection matters. Undertake initial assessment and management of routine acute response work and non-complex incidents. Escalate and support the management of complex incidents and outbreaks of infectious diseases and non-infectious environmental hazards as appropriate.

Manage and carry out continuing responsibility for a caseload ensuring accurate, up to date records of contacts/action by completion of relevant records and compliance with team handover procedures, in line with UKHSAs standards for record keeping.

To utilise an evidence-based approach to manage clinical/professional advice and discussions within the team, seeking senior advice as/when appropriate. Support and participate in the teams formal case review process.

Contribute to and where required lead under supervision the ongoing longer-term management of issues relevant to a defined geographical area.

Contribute to the UKHSA response during incidents in line with UKHSAs Emergency Planning and Resilience Response (EPRR) arrangements as part of the regions responsibilities under the Civil Contingencies Act.

Contribute to and support the UKHSA regional input into Emergency Planning arrangements. Please review the Job Description for a full list of responsibilities. The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be exhaustive.

The Job holder is expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary.