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

UK Health Security Agency

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for two Health Protection Practitioners to join the London Health Protection Team. These posts are permanent roles at CS grade SEO/AfC band 7. Both posts are London based, one with the South London team and one with North London team. There will be a mixture of on-site and remote working, and regular on-site office presence will be required.

Post holders will be part of the multi-disciplinary team contributing to the day-to-day provision of the health protection function, including management of communicable diseases and environmental, chemical, and radiological threats, and contributing to major incidents, including enhanced incident response.

Salary & Grade:
SEO,£42,716 - £48,068, Inner London, AfC Band 7 £49,178 - £57,802.

Location:

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) offers hybrid working - this means that whilst the role will be based in one of our offices, there will be opportunities for an element of working from home.

UKHSA have office locations across the UK.

The role is available at either of these London locations:

61 Colindale Avenue, NW9 5EQ or 10 South Colonnade, E14 4PU.

As part of this role, they will participate on the on-call rota, both in
- and out-of-hours. Post holders will undergo a programme of on-going development and education to build on existing knowledge and to develop skills to provide specialist health protection advice, and meet competencies required to undertake the roll. They will also actively contribute to the development, training, and supervision of others within the team.

An important part of our mission at UKHSA is to help reduce health inequalities across the UK.

The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted how certain groups are impacted negatively by health inequality, and we want to ensure we learn from these challenges.

To do that effectively we need to continue building a talented workforce that represents the diversity of our population.

Our ethos is to be an inclusive organisation for all our staff and stakeholders, where differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our workforce and wider communities.

This in turn produces more accountable and trusted public services and better decisions; better because they are more attuned to the needs and interests of all our communities, helping to address inequality.

Benefits:

Learning and development tailored to your role
An environment with flexible working options
A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
Range of health and wellbeing support

Selection process details:

STAGE - APPLICATION & SIFT:
If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to an interview.

STAGE - INTERVIEW

This stage will involve an in-person interview.

Expected Timeline:

Shortlist:
w/c 4thDecember 2023

Interviews:
w/c 11thDecember 2023

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 noncomplex incidents.
Escalate and support the management of complex incidents and outbreaks of infectious diseases and noninfectious 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 evidencebased approach to manage clinical/professional advice and discussions within the team, seeking senior advice as/when appropriate.
Support and participate in the team's formal case review process.
Contribute to and where required lead under supervision the ongoing longerterm 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 region's 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.