Health Protection Practitioner

7 months ago


Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom UK Health Security Agency Full time

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

- 351014**Salary**:

- £38,724 - £44,393- AfC band 7 (£43,742 - £50,056) per annum, pro rata- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer- AFC band 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- Health Protection Operations North East Health Protection Team**Type of role**:

- Health Professionals**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
- Newcastle Civic Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8QH.About the job

**Job summary**:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Health Protection Practitioner to join the North East Health Protection Team. The post is substantive and based in our Newcastle City Centre office.

The post holder will be part of the multi-disciplinary team contributing to the day-to-day provision of the health protection function, including management of communicable diseases and environmental, chemical and radiological threats, and contributing to major incidents, including enhanced incident response.

The post holder will undergo a programme of on-going development and education to build on existing knowledge and to develop skills to provide specialist health protection advice, and meet competencies required to undertake the role. Once a period of training and induction has been completed, they will be expected to actively contribute to the development, training, and supervision of others within the team, and participate in the out of hours on-call rota

**Job description**:
The post holder will be part of the multi-disciplinary team contributing to the day to day provision of the health protection function, including the management of infectious and environmental hazards and contributing to the response to major incidents. They will use specialist knowledge and skills to undertake case management, liaise with, and provide health protection advice and response across a range of partner organisations, professionals and the public. They will actively contribute to the wider provision and development of the health protection function, including the development, training and supervision of others within the team. The post holder will also develop areas of expertise within regional programmes, working with relevant leads to take this work forward.

The post holder will undergo a programme of on-going development and education to build on existing knowledge and develop skills to provide specialist health protection advice and meet competencies required to undertake the role.

**Main duties of the job**:

- Under supervision, contribute to the day to day running of the acute response function to ensure high quality, safe and effective delivery of the health protection service.
- Provide first point of contact for specialist knowledge, support and advice to health professionals on health protection matters.
- Undertake initial assessment and management of routine acute response work and non-complex incidents.
- Escalate and refer challenging or complex incidents and outbreaks of infectious diseases and non-infectious environmental hazards to senior colleagues as appropriate.
- Manage and carry out continuing responsibility for a caseload ensuring accurate, up to date records of contacts/action by completion of relevant records and compliance with team handover procedures, in line with UKHSAs standards for record keeping.
- To utilise an evidence based approach to manage clinical/professional advice and discussions within the team, seeking senior advice as/when appropriate.
- Contribute to the UKHSA response during incidents in line with UKHSAs Emergency Planning and Resilience Response (EPRR) arrangements as part of the region’s responsibilities under the Civil Contingencies Act.
- Participate in a local on call rota at regional level as required.

Please review the attached Job Description for full list of responsibilities.

**Person specification**:
**Essential Criteria**
- First degree (Health Related) or demonstrable equivalent experience
- Registration with an appropriate health or science related professional body (e.g., NMC)
- Post registration experience as a practitioner in a related field
- An understanding of and ability to work under the current Health and Social Care Act (e.g. safe guarding vulnerable adults; data protection, information governance)
- Experience of building and developing effective stakeholder relationships
- Effective verbal and written communication skills including report writing and presentations
- Ability to work independently, manage and prioritise own workload and cope with competing demands
- Ability to problem solve whilst working in an unpredictable environment, often under pressure and to tight timescales

**Desirable Criteria**
- Professional Public Health qualification and registration e.g. Speciali



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