Senior Epidemiologist

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

- 272224**Salary**:

- £40,876 - £45,998**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Science**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- London, London (region), NW9 5EQAbout the job

**Job summary**:
UKHSA ethos is to be an inclusive organisation for all our staff and stakeholders. To create, nurture and sustain an inclusive culture, where differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our workforce and wider communities. We do this through celebrating and protecting differences by removing barriers and promoting equity and equality of opportunity for all.

**Job description**:
We are excited to offer an opening for an epidemiologist / public health surveillance scientist to work on high profile areas of infectious disease surveillance.

The post is based in the Public Health Programmes Directorate of UKHSA, working between the Immunisation & Vaccine Preventable Diseases Division and the COVID Vaccines and Epidemiology Division.

The post holder will be a core member of the SARI (Severe Acute Respiratory Infection) Watch team monitoring hospitalisation for COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and be the epidemiologist responsible for serosurveillance of COVID-19, including the coordination of data collection, analysis and reporting of population immunity.

The role will include
- taking a lead in serosurveillance across COVID-19 and other vaccine-preventable diseases,
- liaison with NHS Trusts participating in the SARI Watch hospitalisations surveillance programme,
- surveillance of SARI Watch critical care admissions
- cross-covering other areas of ARI surveillance.

To lead on the serological surveillance of coronavirus, and other vaccine-preventable diseases such as influenza, and to undertake hospital surveillance of severe acute respiratory infections as a member of the SARI Watch team.

Contribute to the development of enhanced surveillance systems and research studies of respiratory diseases, including coronavirus, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus. This post requires an individual with an understanding of respiratory disease epidemiology and surveillance, preferably in a UK context, and of sero-epidemiology.
- Lead sero-epidemiological surveillance across COVID-19 and other vaccine-preventable diseases.
- liaison with NHS Trusts participating in the SARI Watch hospitalisations surveillance programme.
- Surveillance of SARI Watch critical care admissions, and other aspects of SARI surveillance.
- Contribute to national enhanced surveillance for respiratory viral diseases including coronavirus.
- Contribute to regular routine reports and peer reviewed publications on the surveillance and epidemiology of vaccine preventable diseases.
- Develop automation products such as automated sitreps.
- Identify surveillance needs within given lead areas, and support developments.
- Create surveillance system specifications and develop and oversee surveillance systems (where appropriate)
- Respond to complex or sensitive data requests.
- Conduct complex statistical analyses of surveillance data.
- Interpret surveillance data, and make appropriate recommendations.
- Assure on the preparation, quality and delivery of routine and ad hoc surveillance reports.
- Manage/supervise and train scientific and information staff in the development of outputs and statistical analysis.
- Build and maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders and partners.
- Liaise with clinicians, laboratories and health protection teams regarding individual cases and outbreaks
- Oversee data requests and identify common themes or issues to be addressed
- Develop automated routines and solutions for surveillance data reports

**Professional Development**
- Identify, discuss and action own professional performance and training / development needs with your line manager through appraisal / individual development plan. Attending internal / external training events
- To participate in all mandatory training as required, i.e. fire safety, information governance and all other mandatory training.

***Key Working Relationships**

The post holder will develop working relationships and communicate regularly with a wide range of individuals, clinical and non-clinical, internal and external to UKHSA. This will include;
**Internal**:
Other members of the division and directorate

Members of the Respiratory Virus Unit, Virus Reference Dept and other laboratory teams, UKHSA Science Group

UKHSA Field Service, Health Protection Operations Group

UKHSA seroepidemiology unit, Manchester

**External**:
NHS Trusts: informatics, laboratory, clinical and managerial staff

NHS Blood and Transplant

Royal College of GPs’ research and Surveillance Centre, Univer