Epidemiology and Surveillance Officer

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

- 255142**Salary**:

- £38,967 - £44,240**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Science**Working pattern**:

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

- 2Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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**Job summary**:
**At the United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA) our mission is to provide health security for the nation by protecting from infectious disease and external hazards. We are a trusted source of advice to government and to the public, focusing on reducing inequalities in the way different communities experience and are impacted by infectious disease, environmental hazards, and other threats to health.**

**Our mission is challenging, innovative and in the spotlight. We will work to ensure our people have the diverse skills, experiences and backgrounds we need to thrive, that our employees are representative of the communities we serve and feel valued and enabled to play their part in delivering our work.**

**Creating our working culture is an ongoing process which we are developing by listening and learning together, hearing and acting upon diverse voices and opinions to develop a common sense of identity and effective ways of working.**

**Location**:
UKHSA offers hybrid working for its employees - this means that whilst the role will be based in one of our UKHSA offices, there will be opportunities for an element of working from home. The balance between home and workplace working is to be agreed with the line manager, determined primarily by business need and in line with departmental policy.

Some business travel will be required to other UKHSA offices. Business travel between base location and any other UKHSA offices will be covered under the UKHSA Travel and Expenses policy. Please be aware that this role can only be worked in the UK and not overseas. Relocation expenses are not available.

**Job description**:
The post holder will be based at UKHSA RCE Environmental Epidemiology Group (EEG) and will be managed by the Environmental Epidemiology Group Leader. The post holder will take lead roles in maintaining and improving surveillance systems. S/he will also lead on the ongoing development and improvements to the national Environmental Public Health Surveillance System (EPHSS).

The post holder will oversee all aspects of information and data management to support surveillance and epidemiological investigations, including in relation to extreme events as well as ongoing chronic exposure to chemical and environmental hazards, providing expert advice on data collection, storage, use and information governance and quality.

They will develop surveillance systems (where appropriate) and evaluate existing surveillance systems through audit.

The post holder will contribute to scientific papers on public health surveillance, clusters/outbreaks and non-communicable disease control through the analysis of datasets with appropriate methodology to support research.

**Key Responsibilities**:
Responsible for the day-to-day management of the information function within the Environmental Epidemiology Group including the line management of information staff.

Cluster and outbreak support and epidemiological investigation
- Oversee the information and data management to support a cluster or outbreak or epidemiological investigation
- Provide expert advice on information governance aspects of information management and response

Surveillance
- Identify surveillance needs within Environmental Public Health Tracking and EPHSS
- Develop and oversee surveillance systems (where appropriate) and advise on information management and governance issues
- Analyse and interpret surveillance data, developing automated routines and solutions

Research
- Advise on the information governance aspects of a study database
- Contribute to scientific papers on public health surveillance, clusters, outbreaks and environmental public health

Statistical skills
- Translate statistical processes in to automated solutions where appropriate

Software skills
- Use common statistical/database/mapping/web tools such as Stata, R, ArcGIS, network analysis, SQL, SharePoint etc. in routine reports, surveillance activities and the development of solutions
- Undertake complex analytical and programming tasks using common and specialist software packages to support data extractions, analysis and validation

Communication and Strategic thinking
- Present at scientific conferences, programme area meetings and other fora.
- Teach colleagues on all aspects of data, information management and governance and develop teaching material and courses.

**Person specification**:
**Essential Criteria**:

- Educated to degree level in information management / science, public health or equivalent experience
- Higher qualification in information management / science, public health, epidemiology or e