Animal Health Officer - Bury St. Edmunds, United Kingdom - Animal and Plant Health Agency

Animal and Plant Health Agency
Animal and Plant Health Agency
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Bury St. Edmunds, United Kingdom

1 month ago

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Salary:

- £27,470 - £28,606
  • A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
    Job grade:
  • Executive Officer
    Contract type:
  • Permanent
  • Fixed term
  • Loan
  • Secondment
    Length of employment:
  • 12 months if joining on loan, secondment or fixed term appointment which may be extended or made permanent

Type of role:


  • Operational Delivery
    Working pattern:
  • Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
    Number of jobs available:
  • 20Contents
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Location

  • Beverley, Bury St Edmunds, Canterbury, Crewe, Horley, Leicester, Norwich, Preston, Shrewsbury, Stafford, Wallingford, Winchester, WorcesterAbout the job

Job summary:


This advert is the re-advertising of campaign Animal Health Officer - England
Are you passionate about working with animals and care for their welfare?

Are you caring, conscientious and an excellent team worker?

Do you enjoy working outside?

If the answer is 'yes', you should come and work for APHA


Locations:

We have numerous vacancies for permanent and fixed term appointments at the following locations:

Permanent vacancies based at the location detailed, covering the following areas:

Crewe - Cheshire, Manchester (airport included), Bolton, Liverpool, The Wirral


Wallingford:


  • Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire (North)

Worcester - Worcestershire, West Midlands, Herefordshire & Shropshire


Fixed-Term appointments with a current end date of
31st March 2025 based at the location detailed, covering the following areas:

Leicester - Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire


Crewe - Cheshire, Manchester (airport included), Bolton, Liverpool, The Wirral


Preston - Lancashire, Leeds, Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield


Bury St Edmunds - Suffolk, Cambridgeshire


Worcester/Shrewsbury - Worcestershire, West Midlands, Herefordshire & Shropshire


Fixed-Term appointments with a current end date of
4th August 2025 based at the location detailed, covering the following areas:

Beverley - East Yorkshire, Hull


Winchester - Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Berkshire (South)


Norwich:


  • Norfolk

Wallingford
  • Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire (North)

Horley - West Sussex, East Sussex, Surrey, Greater London (South East)


Canterbury - Kent, Greater London (South West), East Sussex, Surrey

All posts will be offered in merit order based on location and business need.

If permanent vacancies are not available in your preferred location, we may offer you a fixed-term appointment in merit order based on your location preference.


As part of the role, you will be expected to regularly travel and carry out duties outlined in the Job Description.

During certain circumstances (e.g. National Disease Outbreaks) staff will be expected to work on detached duty at other locations, these requests will depend on business needs. The post holder will occasionally be required to work from other locations in the delivery area.


Currently APHA has adopted a blended approach to working, allowing for a mix of some home working and office attendance.


Job description:

As a field-based Animal Health Officer (AHO) your duties will include, but not limited to the following:

  • blood sampling of livestock species including cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry (after suitable training)
- collecting blood samples from bTB (bovine tuberculosis) breakdown cattle herds, including suckler, beef and dairy herds
- conducting documentation inspections on animal identification, animal movement, breeding, medicine and other written or electronic records for audit and disease control and surveillance purposes
- collecting samples for National Surveillance Schemes including feed samples from farms, feed mills and feed merchants
- collecting samples and information for disease surveys
- managing compliance inspections for premises handling animal by-products e.g., rendering plants, composting sites, hunt kennels and knackers' yards
- playing an active part in contingency planning so the agency is able to respond to outbreaks of exotic notifiable disease and other emergencies
- undertaking allocated rostered out of hours on-call duties to deal with incidents and to support disease outbreak reports
- during outbreaks of notifiable disease, participating as directed to contribute to the control and the eradication of the disease including taking part in rosters for detached duty to other parts of Great Britain
- working with a diverse team, both locally and across Great Britain, including other technical colleagues, veterinary surgeons and scientists during notifiable disease outbreaks
- risk based visits to premises for egg marketing inspections.
- enforcing of regulations including Eggs and Chicks (England) 2009.


Person specification:

- have an agricultural background, an agric
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