Senior Scientific Officer in The Residues Team

2 weeks ago


New Haw, United Kingdom Veterinary Medicines Directorate Full time

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

- 266202**Salary**:

- £40,262 - £44,724**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer- Senior Scientific Officer**Contract type**:

- Fixed Term
- Loan
- Secondment**Length of employment**:

- 18 Months**Business area**:

- Residues Team**Type of role**:

- Science**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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- Woodham Lane, New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey KT15 3LSAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- This new post in the VMD Residues Team will contribute to assuring food safety in the UK by assessing the veterinary residues programmes of new and existing UK trading partners. This assessment will involve checking the monitoring systems of other countries against our own UK programme, to establish equivalence and robustness in terms of commodities tested, as well as testing methods used and survey design. The post will also contribute to capacity building programmes in low
- and middle-income countries to support improvements in their national residues programme.**Job description**:
This exciting and fast-paced job is based in the VMD’s Residues Team, but you will also work closely with our International Team. You will be responsible for assessing whether the systems that trading partners have in place are sufficient to ensure that banned substances, authorised medicines and contaminants are not present in food-producing animals, or their products, at levels that exceed Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs), thus helping to ensure food imported to the UK is safe for consumers.

You will achieve this by coordinating and conducting audits and assessments of the veterinary residues programmes of both existing and prospective UK trading partners, contributing to the wider Defra-led decision-making process. You will also support other countries to build their own residues surveillance and laboratory testing capacity, by provision of technical advice and training.

While this work will be desk-based you will also be expected to travel internationally both to undertake audit visits and to provide support to low
- and middle-income countries in developing their own surveillance and testing systems. You will be required to work closely with colleagues in both the residues and international teams, as well as with our delivery partners, and colleagues across government. You will develop a firm understanding of our domestic programme for veterinary medicine residues as well as an understanding of the challenges facing others in assuring food safety.

**Person specification**:
Your main duties are to:

- coordinate and conduct robust assessments of veterinary medicine residues programmes on request from Defra for both new and existing UK trading partners.
- collaborate with colleagues to streamline the new processes for reporting outputs.
- participate in audit meetings with trading partners, possibly internationally, to investigate processes and methods for sample collection and testing.
- support ongoing work on improving the existing UK veterinary medicines residues programme to ensure it delivers effectively and provides assurances to trading partners
- assist the Head of Team and Operations Manager to develop and implement policy on the veterinary medicine residues programme.
- work closely with the VMD International Office, to provide technical advice and guidance to low and middle income countries on their veterinary medicine residues programme design and implementation.
- Support formulation and delivery of training on aspects of surveillance including national residues programme design and improvements in laboratory residues testing processes.

**Experience**

**You must have/be able to**:

- Understand complex policy issues quickly
- Analyse information, identifying key issues, and then making recommendations to colleagues
- Communicate confidently and concisely, both orally and in writing
- Deliver training
- Engage a wide range of stakeholders (at all levels) both in a technical and non-technical environment
- Work in an international environment or with international stakeholders
- Plan and prioritise your workload in a changing and challenging landscape

**And you must have specific experience in one or more of the following**:

- Analytical chemistry techniques and the importance of Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs) in the context of food safety
- Practical experience of undertaking laboratory procedures relevant to residues testing
- Experience in epidemiology, as the role requires good understanding of global approaches to survey design.

To enjoy this work and be successful your experience will mean you:
- have an eye to the detail
- interact confidently with technical experts
- are adaptable and enthusiastic
- have strong interpersonal skills
- enjoy working across teams and organisations

You must be proficient in the use of Microsoft Office packages, particularly Word, Excel and O



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