Epidemiology and Surveillance Officer - Didcot, United Kingdom - UK Health Security Agency

UK Health Security Agency

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Didcot, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Salary & Grade:
£38,967- £44,240 SEO (depending upon location)

Location:
Chilton, Oxon, or other RCE site office

The Radiation, Chemical and Environment (RCE) Directorate provides advice, research and services to protect the public from hazards resulting from exposure to environmental hazards and exposures including chemicals and poisons, radiation, and climate change.

The Centre also leads for UKHSA on developing surveillance and intelligence on environmental hazards, exposures and related health outcomes.

This is a 12 month FTC to cover maternity leave, providing a public health scientist a chance to widen their experience by working on environmental epidemiology projects.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a unique team working on national and international environmental epidemiology projects. We explore the health impacts from a wide range of environmental exposures, including chemicals, air pollution and climate change.

The post will involve actively supporting and contributing to epidemiology projects including research and surveillance, incident and outbreak management and response, contributing to the production of epidemiology reports and preparing descriptive and analytical epidemiology.

The post holder will support research through their contribution to scientific papers and projects as well as through designing study databases and sharing findings at conferences and meetings.

At the United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA) our mission is to provide health security for the nation by protecting from infectious disease and external hazards.

We are a trusted source of advice to government and to the public, focusing on reducing inequalities in the way different communities experience and are impacted by infectious disease, environmental hazards, and other threats to health.

Our mission is challenging, innovative and in the spotlight.

We will work to ensure our people have the diverse skills, experiences and backgrounds we need to thrive, that our employees are representative of the communities we serve and feel valued and enabled to play their part in delivering our work.

Creating our working culture is an ongoing process which we are developing by listening and learning together, hearing and acting upon diverse voices and opinions to develop a common sense of identity and effective ways of working.

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.

This role will be based at one of our RCE UKHSA offices/locations, mainly Chilton in Oxfordshire, or Leeds, Manchester, London, Cardiff, Bristol, Nottingham and Birmingham, with opportunities for an element of working from home.

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, Part Time, Job Share

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

Develop and oversee surveillance systems (where appropriate) and advise on information management and governance issues
Identify surveillance needs within Environmental Public Health Tracking and UKHSA's Environmental Public Health Surveillance System

- contribute to scientific papers on public health surveillance, clusters, outbreaks and environmental public health

Oversee the information and data management to support a cluster or outbreak or epidemiological investigation
Provide expert advice on information governance aspects of information management and response
Evaluate existing surveillance systems through audit
Use common statistical/database/mapping/web tools such as Stata, R, ArcGIS, network analysis, SQL, SharePoint etc. in routine reports, surveillance activities and the development of solutions
Undertake complex analytical and programming tasks using common and specialist software packages to support data extractions, analysis and validation
Present internally and externally to partners on lead area / specialty
Build and maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders and partners
Be responsible for the quality of data collected, stored and extracted and transferred

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 job description for the full list of duties and responsibilities.

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

STAGE - INTERVIEW

This competition will involve an interview face to face at UKHSA Chilton, Oxfordshire office.

Expected Timeline:

Interviews:
w/c TBC