Consultant in Health Protection

3 weeks ago


Leeds, United Kingdom UK Health Security Agency Full time

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

- 247896**Salary**:

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

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

- Permanent
- Fixed Term**Length of employment**:

- Fixed Term until 31st March 2025**Type of role**:

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

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

- 2Contents

Location

About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- LeedsAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The UKHSA Yorkshire & Humber Region is part of the Pan-Regional Directorate within UKHSA's Health Protection Operations Group. The UKHSA Yorkshire & Humber Region provides service across the Yorkshire & Humber region and has an office in Leeds. This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic person to join the UKHSA Yorkshire & Humber Region as a Consultant in Health Protection. This post is based in the Leeds office and the post holder will be expected to travel within the geographical patch.

**Job description**:
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 in the UKHSA Y&H region 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.

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 the 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 Yorkshire & Humber. 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:
- Mike Gent
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