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

Animal and Plant Health Agency

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Bury St. Edmunds, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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- £37,295 - £41,425

This role is eligible for a starting allowance of £3000. For further detail on pay please see below under 'salary'.
A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
Job grade:
Senior Executive Officer
Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
Surveillance and Laboratory Services Department
Type of role:
Science
Veterinary Services
Working pattern:
Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
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Bury St Edmunds, Carmarthen, ThirskAbout the job

Job summary:

The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) is an executive agency of the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, and works on behalf of the Scottish Government and Welsh Government.

Our diverse teams of over 2,000 skilled and committed professionals come together to provide research, advice, and support to UK Government for safeguarding animal, public and plant health for benefit of the environment and economy.

The overarching purpose of the role is to provide veterinary surveillance and disease investigation in order to safeguard animal health and welfare, public health, protect the economy and enhance food security, in support of GB Governments' policies.

In this role you will contribute to a diagnostic service investigating animal diseases and welfare primarily in farmed livestock and wildlife.

The role aims to detect notifiable disease, new and re-emerging threats, food safety incidents and zoonotic disease.

You will carry out post-mortem examinations and assign relevant laboratory tests interpreting and reporting findings and giving relevant advice to private veterinarians.

Farm visits may also be required. Being able to communicate effectively with famers, private veterinarians, stakeholders, and policy makers is essential in this role. You will be expected to work to quality standards and observe stringent health and safety requirements. Full training will be given, and you will be encouraged to develop your expertise.

Job description:

To carry out any duties commensurate with the grade and purpose of the post including, but not limited to, the following:

Disease Investigation, Welfare and Diagnostics

To investigate animal diseases and welfare cases in primarily farmed livestock, wildlife, and other species in order to detect notifiable disease, new and re-emerging threats, food safety incidents and zoonotic disease, and to provide a diagnostic and investigative service.

This will be achieved within the quality system by:

Conducting postmortem examinations.
Humanely euthanising animals where necessary.
Commissioning appropriate laboratory tests.
Interpreting results.
Reporting conclusions.
Carrying out onfarm and field investigations.

Surveillance
Gathering of information, data, and intelligence to enable understanding of the patterns and trends of endemic diseases and the timely detection and characterisation of new and re-emerging animal-related threats, including, but not limited to, the following:

Collecting relevant information and data.
Identifying (and where relevant, report and escalate) incidents which may represent statutory, new, reemerging or changing disease patterns.
Collating, interpreting, and reporting surveillance information and data.
Work collaboratively to deliver leading edge veterinary research, surveillance, consultancy, and laboratory testing services through a series of integrated science programmes.

Stakeholder Engagement

Actively engaging with private veterinary surgeons, farmers, and others to ensure the gathering and sharing of data, information and intelligence to enable understanding of the patterns and trends of endemic diseases and the timely detection of new and reemerging animalrelated threats.
To develop effective and sustainable working relationships with endusers of APHA services, representing and promoting the interests of GB Governments to deliver agreed policy outcomes.
To engage with animal keepers, wider industry, the veterinary profession, and other operational partners to gather data, information, and intelligence, educate, influence and provide feedback to improve the standards of animal health and welfare.
Arrange and/or attend relevant veterinary and other meetings to participate, present and contribute to knowledge exchange.

Incident and Disease Outbreak Response

To contribute to and participate in Delivery Area and National Contingency Planning and exercises as required.
To ensure that professional skills are developed and maintained to undertake any allocated role(s) during incidents and emergency activities with an expectation that the roles in which individuals are specifically trained will be called upon first during outbreaks and provision of veterinary leadership and direction