Information Officer - London, United Kingdom - UK Health Security Agency

UK Health Security Agency

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Salary:

- £29,737 - £34,453
Job grade:

Executive Officer
Contract type:
Permanent
Type of role:
Science
Working pattern:
Fulltime
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Location

Minimum of 60% of time at 61 Colindale Ave, London, NW9 5EQAbout the job

Job summary:

Gastrointestinal Infections and Food Safety (One Health) Division

The Gastrointestinal Infections and Food safety (One Health) Division is located at Colindale within UKHSA's Clinical and Emerging Infections Directorate.

The Division's main functions constitute providing specialist (including clinical and genomic) epidemiology and surveillance for Gastrointestinal Infections (GI), coordinating the investigation of national outbreaks, advising government on the risks posed by various gastrointestinal pathogens, and responding to national and international health concerns.

The Division manages the above functions across a broad range of pathogens including enteric and food borne bacteria, viruses, and parasites.

It plays an important role in Food safety and One Health and has several years' experience in using advanced techniques such as whole genome sequencing to track national and internal outbreaks and antimicrobial resistance in foodborne bacteria.

The GIFSOH Division aims to:

Identify and manage local and national outbreaks of gastrointestinal infections
Provide quality assured GI pathogen surveillance outputs and foodborne outbreak investigation data
Provide national epidemiological services for public health purposes
Describe trends in the incidence and prevalence of gastrointestinal illness and promote public health policy recommendations
Inform progress towards global health sector strategy on Food Safety and One Health
Lead and contribute to research in gastrointestinal infections

Location

Minimum of 60% of time at 61 Colindale Ave, London, NW9 5EQ
- *Please be aware that this role can only be worked from within the UK and not overseas. Relocation expenses are not available.*_

Working Pattern - Full Time

Job description:

Responsibilities section:

The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:

Surveillance

Responsible for the efficient administration of gastrointestinal infections databases by ensuring timely entry of data; data validation; reconciliation; timely production of reports; troubleshooting any problems relating to departmental databases and ensuring that the reference data are kept up to date in the databases. To provide guidance to other colleagues where needed and ensure up to date documentation of processes through Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
Provide technical support for electronic surveillance systems for gastrointestinal infections through design & implementation of routine data outputs
To assist departmental epidemiologists in the development and maintenance of surveillance systems
To undertake regular extraction of data from SGSS, write and run routine and ad hoc queries on gastrointestinal diseases databases in response to internal and external information requests, FOIs and amendments to data
Produce tabular and graphical outputs in electronic and paper format for distribution to collaborators and for placement within the public domain
Contribute to the development of the Department's web content
To ensure data security at all times by adhering to the Data Protection Act and Caldicott principles in the handling and dissemination of data, including during transfer between organisations

Outbreak Investigation

Provide administrative aspects of national outbreak investigations:

Act as the administrative focus for gastrointestinal infection incident management teams.
Collect and record microbiological data, demographic information and patient contact details and filing all relevant documentation collected during gastrointestinal infection outbreak investigations and ensuring that confidentiality protocols are adhered to.
Collect and collate data for production of reports and summaries.

Secretariat

Attend and provide a comprehensive secretariat function for team teams by arranging meetings, minuting, transcribing Minutes, producing Agenda's and Action Tables and where appropriate followingup on action points.

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.

_ Please see the attached job description for a full list of duties_

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Essential Criteria:

We are looking for an exceptional Information Officer.

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