**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 283631**Salary**:

- £40,876 - £45,998**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Science**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 2Contents

Location

About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- 61 Colindale Avenue, London, NW9 5HTAbout the job

**Job summary**:
**_ The postholder will work on the surveillance, epidemiology, and investigation of gastrointestinal infections by providing specialist scientific support for a range of national surveillance programmes, outbreak investigations and research projects. This will include the design and development of new surveillance and data management systems in response to developments in microbiological typing methods in collaboration with other epidemiologists and IT/bioinformatics specialists and will be required to conduct complex statistical analyses to produce GI pathogen surveillance, outbreak investigation and risk assessment outputs._**

**Location**

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

The balance between home and workplace working is to be agreed with the line manager, determined primarily by business needs and in line with departmental policy.
- *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, Flexible Working

**Job description**:
**In the** **Epidemiologist post your main responsibilities will include**:
The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:

- Manage existing national surveillance systems and co-ordinate the development of new surveillance systems for gastrointestinal pathogens and to supervise and advise junior scientific and administrative staff in the maintenance and development of integrated or enhanced surveillance datasets.
- Conduct complex statistical analyses of data on gastrointestinal pathogens drawn from a variety of surveillance sources in response to enquiries from external stakeholders (e.g. other Government departments and agencies such as Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC), Food Standards Agency (FSA), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) etc), international agencies, public health practitioners, academics and members of the public as well as internal UKHSA stakeholders.
- Advise and support scientific and administrative staff in conducting routine analyses of surveillance datasets for standardised outputs and ad hoc enquiries.
- Supervise junior scientific colleagues and the administrative team in the production of standard GI pathogen surveillance and outbreak reports and publications.
- Coordinate the activities of scientists in partner institutes involved in collaborative surveillance programmes.
- Provide technical advice and assistance on the design, maintenance, analysis and interpretation of surveillance database outputs.
- Write or contribute to the drafting of scientific papers for publication in peer reviewed journals and detailed reports for UKHSA or Government departments.
- Conduct complex statistical analyses of data on gastrointestinal pathogens drawn from a variety of surveillance sources in response to enquiries from other Government agencies (DHSC, FSA, DEFRA), international agencies, public health practitioners, academics and internal UKHSA stakeholders.
- Collating and interpreting epidemiological and microbiological data drawn from a variety of sources.

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.

**Person specification**:
**We are looking for two exceptional Epidemiologists**

**Please ensure that your statement of suitability contains no personal identifiers e.g. name in either the file name or content of the document.**

**Essential**
- Significant experience of interpreting and evaluating epidemiological data, using databases, spreadsheets, statistical and graphics packages to an advanced level (R skills).
- Significant experience of statistical analysis of large and complex epidemiological datasets.
- Demonstrable experience of managing epidemiological studies.
- Demonstrable experience of writing scientific papers and/or reports.
- Ability to work independently and take responsibility for own technical work and time and to work as an effective team member
- Ability to analyse, summarise and interpret complex epidemiological data using R
- Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources

**Desirable**

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