Consultant in Health Protection

2 weeks ago


Didcot, United Kingdom UK Health Security Agency Full time

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

- 265697**Salary**:

- £79,592 - £119,133- per annum, pro-rata**Job grade**:

- Other- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant or AfC Band 8d**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Health Adviser
- Health Professionals
- Medical
- Senior leadership**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- DidcotAbout the job

**Job summary**:
This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic person to join UKHSA South East, within the Health Protection team as a Consultant in Health Protection. The Health Protection team provides service across the South East and has four offices; Chilton (Thames Valley), Fareham (Hampshire), Horsham (Surrey and Sussex) and Ashford (Kent). Post holders can be based at any of our sites (with equity required across) but likely to be supporting the Kent and Surrey/Sussex teams. Travel across the geographical patch and to other UKHSA sites should be expected.

To carry out the role, we are looking for a dynamic public health professional with strong leadership skills and vision. The post of Consultant in Health Protection is a senior level position, suitable for a public health professional seeking an exciting position to protect people’s health from infectious diseases and other threats including that of COVID-19.

**Job description**:
You will require a sound experience of health protection practice in the wider NHS context and have good generic public health skills including leadership skills together with an understanding of and skills in multi-organisational working.

Working in close partnership with local authorities and the NHS, the post holder will have operational responsibility for the provision of a safe and effective health protection service which delivers to high quality standards and is responsive to the needs of the local community and UKHSA’s partners in the local public health systems.

**Person specification**:
You will share the responsibility, with a multidisciplinary team, including other consultants in health protection as well as health protection practitioners, for dealing with the surveillance, prevention and control of communicable disease and the response to non-communicable environmental hazards including chemical and radiation issues within the South East. You will contribute to the investigation and management of a full range of health protection incidents (including outbreaks of diseases, such as meningitis, and food poisoning), and will carry out surveillance, co-ordination, support and monitoring of local implementation of certain key national programmes.

**Benefits**:

- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

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**Selection process details**:

- Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants).
- Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Security**:
- See our vetting charter.- People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.**Nationality requirements**:
This job is broadly open to the following groups:

- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

Further information on nationality requirements**Working for the Civil Service**:

- The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
- We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles.-
- Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.**Contact point for applicants**:
Job contact:

- Name:
- Trish Mannes
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