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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Salary:

- £34,463 - £50,364
Job grade:

Higher Executive Officer
Band 6
Contract type:
Permanent
Fixed term
Length of employment:
12 Months
Type of role:
Health Professionals
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
Number of jobs available:
3Contents

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Location

London, London (region), E14 4

PU :
London, London (region), NW9 5EQAbout the job

Job summary:

An exciting opportunity has arisen for three Health Protection Practitioners to join the London Health Protection Team. One of the posts is substantive, and two of the posts are for fixed term periods of 12 months. All posts will be based within one of our two London Health Protection Teams.

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.

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 role.

Once a period of training and induction has been completed, they will be expected to actively contribute to the development, training, and supervision of others within the team, and participate in the on-call rota, both in
- and out-of-hours.

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.

Salary:

If you are currently employed on Agenda for Change (AfC) terms you may be offered Band 6 (Inner London) £42,471 - £50,364.

Location
UKHSA operates a hybrid working model where business needs allow.

You will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of your contractual working hours (approximately 3 days a week pro rata, (averaged over a month) working at either UKHSA Colindale (61 Colindale Ave, London NW9 5EQ) or UKHSA Canary Wharf (10 S Colonnade, London E14 4PU).

- *Please be aware that this role can only be worked from within the UK. Relocation expenses are not available.*_

Job description:

Under supervision, contribute to 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 for 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 refer challenging or complex incidents and outbreaks of infectious diseases and noninfectious environmental hazards to senior manager 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 team's 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 region's responsibilities under the Civil Contingencies Act.
May be required to participate in a local on call rota at regional level as required.

Please review the attached Job Description for 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.

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