Food Safety

2 months ago

London, United Kingdom UK Health Security Agency Full time

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

- 305598**Salary**:

- £66,291 - £75,411**Job grade**:

- Grade 6**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Science**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- 61 Colindale Avenue London NW9 5EQAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The Gastrointestinal Infections and Food safety (One Health) Division is located within UKHSA’s Clinical and Public health Directorate at Colindale. The Divisions remit includes providing specialist epidemiology and surveillance for Gastrointestinal Infections (GI), coordinating the investigation of national outbreaks, advising government on the risks posed by various gastrointestinal pathogens, and responding to national and international health concerns.

The Division manages the above functions across a broad range of pathogens including enteric and food borne bacteria, viruses and parasites. It plays an important role in Food safety and One Health and in using advanced techniques such as whole genome sequencing to track national and international outbreaks and antimicrobial resistance in foodborne bacteria.

The postholder will be reading and analysing epidemiological and microbiological data, creating visual models to represent possible outcomes, and preparing reports for risk communication. They will take lead responsibility in the strategic development of Food Safety Surveillance and introduce systems to produce data to monitor national and local trends and patterns of infection, make public health policy recommendations and contribute towards control initiatives and outbreak response.

**Location**

61 Colindale Avenue, London, NW9 5EQ_ _
- *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

**Job description**:
The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:

- Building on complex and multidisciplinary data sources
- Play a leading role in the synthesis of food safety risk assessment and surveillance initiatives through collation of existing initiatives and identifying opportunities for further development
- Lead on developing and designing datasets, managing the collation and validation of data, the timely production of outputs (e.g., reports and articles), and quality assurance
- Lead on the analysis of datasets
- Provide advice and guidance on specialist aspects of the analyses of risks to health linked to food and environmental contamination
- Interpret and prepare scientific reports and articles of the results and to undertake research
- Contribute to the teaching activities of GIFSOH at local, national, and international level
- Manage multiple and changing demands and meet tight deadlines
- High levels of intellectual rigour, negotiation and motivation skills and flexibility are required to deal with complex public health issues
- Advise and make recommendations regarding the development of strategy and systems implementation. Exceptional tact and diplomacy is required
- Ability to understand other cultures to enable effective working across organisational boundaries and for influencing without authority
- To attend and contribute fully to the work of the GIFSOH senior management team
- Establish and maintain positive relationships and collaborations with key stakeholders
- Positively affect the behaviour and attitudes of team members and colleagues

**_ Please refer to the Job Description for a full list of duties _**

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**:
**Essential**
- PhD in epidemiology/public health/health promotion or equivalent from experience
- Training in risk assessment methods, infectious disease epidemiology, surveillance, prevention and/or public health
- Advanced knowledge of computers and database software packages (e.g. SQL, R, RStudio, STATA, GIS, network analysis tools)
- Significant experience of scientific report writing and scientific publication including presentation of papers at conference etc
- Practical experience of facilitating change, managing staff and budgets
- Advanced knowledge and experience of epidemiological and statistical research methods (i.e. post-doctoral level)
- Proven experience of data management and analysis of large and complex datasets and reporting
- Extensive knowledge and experience of communicable disease epidemiology, surveillance and/ or prevention
- Liaise with a wide range of external collaborators including health service and academic professionals

**Desirable**
- Inclusion in the Health Care Professionals Council and/or UK Voluntary Register (UKVR) for Public Health Specia

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