Policy Advisor

3 months ago

Leeds, United Kingdom Department of Health and Social Care Full time

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

- 346874**Salary**:

- £32,188- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent
- Loan
- Secondment**Length of employment**:

- This role is being advertised on a permanent basis. If preferable, Loan or Secondment options will also be available for existing Civil Servants (Loan) and applicants from accredited NDPBs or any other employer (Secondment).**Business area**:

- DHSC - Adult Social Care Group - Delivery**Type of role**:

- Policy**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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- LeedsAbout the job

**Job summary**:
In DHSC, we are proud of our purpose - to enable everyone to live more independent, healthier lives for longer. To achieve this, and create a great place to work, we have four values: we are inclusive, we constantly improve, we challenge, and we are agile. If this sounds like an environment you’d like to work in, we’d love to hear from you. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) plays a vital role in leading the nation’s health and social care, to help people live more independent, healthier lives for longer.

We are recruiting an HEO to join the Visiting and Health Protection Policy team. The team is responsible for visiting policy, pandemic preparedness, and infection, prevention and control (IPC) guidance in adult social care (ASC). The team works to ensure that policies continue to protect those at highest risk of severe illness to infectious diseases while maximising their wellbeing.

**Job description**:
The Visiting and Health Protection Policy team plays an important role in developing policy that protects people who access adult social care, both now and in the future. We are looking for an HEO to pick up and support work on policies which deliver against ministerial objectives and support the sector.

As we saw during the covid-19 pandemic, Adult Social Care is one of the key settings that will be most impacted during any future pandemic. Our team works across the Department, UK Health Security Agency and NHS England to ensure that policies continue to protect people at highest risk to infectious diseases while maximising their wellbeing. This is an exciting role in a small team focused on futureproofing pandemic plans for the Adult Social Care sector. thinking strategically and seeing how Adult Social Care's role fits into wider pandemic preparedness planning policy work.

It is expected that the successful applicant will be flexible in taking a lead on other work strands within the team, as ministerial and departmental priorities shift. This could include involvement with ongoing work on infection, prevention and control; future pandemic preparedness; and developing legislation. They will also be part of the team ‘briefing hub’, leading responses to briefing requests, PQs and correspondence for our policy areas.

**Person specification**:

- Role responsibilities_
- Support engagement with teams across the Department, ALBs and OGDs and other internal and external stakeholders to develop robust pandemic preparedness policies for the sector
- Utilise project management skills to ensure that key milestones are set out and delivered upon
- Support on work strands across the team’s policy areas as required, which may include strategic thinking on future pandemic preparedness or policy development on infection, prevention and control.
- Contribute to business of state functions of the team in terms of briefing ministers or responding to PQs and correspondence cases.
- Key skills and experience required for this role_
- Ability to confidently work across different teams and functions to develop evidence, gather views and develop policy recommendations
- Able to communicate clearly, with experience in drafting high-quality and clear written products
- A strong team player, comfortable working with internal and external stakeholders to ensure ongoing work accounts for a variety of views and to communicate key messages
- Handling briefing, PQ and correspondence requests in a timely manner with high-quality output
- Have the capability to grasp a complex policy area, building your knowledge so you can adapt policy to ensure it aligns with recent developments, evidence and the latest government priorities
- You will be highly motivated, comfortable working independently and have excellent time management skills to proactively prioritise workloads and conflicting demands.
- Working location requirements_

Your normal place of work will be your contractual primary workplace, at Quarry House in Leeds. Within DHSC we offer non-contractual hybrid working. The expectation at present is a minimum of 60% of your working time spent in the office, enabling in person interaction and collaboration and enhancing

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