Animal Health Officer

6 months ago

Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom Animal and Plant Health Agency Full time

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

- 351116**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, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 19Contents

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**Benefits**:
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Location
- Beverley, Bury St Edmunds, Crewe, Leicester, Preston, Shrewsbury, Stafford, Wallingford, Winchester, WorcesterAbout the job

**Job summary**:
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

Working as part of the Technical Team, you will be instrumental in helping to safeguard animal health and welfare. Through engaging with inspections, surveillance and collecting samples, you will be contributing to the control and eradication of disease to protect both the economy and food security.

We are looking for compassionate, dedicated individuals who strive for excellence and integrity and who put animal health and welfare at the heart of everything they do.

You will be nominally aligned within a delivery area, which will have a designated APHA office. During certain circumstances (e.g., national disease outbreaks) there will be requests to work on detached duty elsewhere, depending on business need. These requests may be made at short notice. The post holder may be occasionally required to work from other locations in the delivery area.

You will be expected to occasionally stay away from home on overnight stays to attend meetings and training. Staff will also be required to work rostered on-call duties, weekends, Bank Holidays and occasional evenings. There will be occasional travel to other APHA locations. Out of hours and detached duty work may be required in the event of an outbreak or incident.

**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 agricultural qualification or have knowledge of the agricultural industry
- have high standards of written and spoken English and can communicate effectively about animal health topics with all stakeholders including customers, service users and colleagues
- have knowledge of basic Health and Safety and an understanding of safe working on farms and with livestock and poultry
- are able to work alone or as part of team, to take responsibility and remain positive and focused in the face of challenge
- have experience with excellent record keeping, auditing processes and maintaining quality
- are able to adhere to processes and quality standards

**Support and Training**

**Learning and Development**
Everyone in APHA is supported to develop their skills and capabilities. When you join the Directorate, you will be welcomed into your new team through an induction programme that will provide you with helpful information on the civil service, our work and our policies. Your line manager will also work with you to establish your p

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