Senior Health Protection Practitioner
3 days ago
**Details**:
**Reference number**:
- 272759**Salary**:
- £48,526 - £58,769- plus on-call allowance**Job grade**:
- Grade 7- Agenda for Change band 8a**Contract type**:
- Permanent**Type of role**:
- Health Adviser**Working pattern**:
- Flexible working, Full-time, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:
- 1Contents
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About the job
**Benefits**:
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- ManchesterAbout the job
**Job summary**:
The UKHSA North West Region is a multi-disciplinary team of Consultants in Health Protection, Health Protection Practitioners, Surveillance Scientists, Emergency Preparedness and Business Operations.
The Senior Health Protection Practitioner is a key member of the health protection team and will contribute to and at times lead, the day to day running of the acute response of the health protection function, including the management of infectious and environmental hazards, and response to major incidents. They will use specialist knowledge and skills to undertake case management and provide health protection advice across a range of partner organisations, professionals, and the public.
The post holder will require demonstrable generic public health skills with established health protection experience and will have specific lead areas of work involving partnership working with external organisations. The post holder will contribute to the strategic work of the locality/patch-based health protection team and deputise where appropriate.
**Job description**:
As Senior Health Protection Practitioner you will:
- Contribute to high quality, safe delivery of the health protection services by providing first point of contact for specialist knowledge/ advice to health professionals
- Undertake day to day management of routine acute response work and non-complex incidents, and support health protection practitioners in the acute response, escalating complex incidents and outbreaks.
- Undertake line management of Health Protection Practitioners in the Greater Manchester team
- Support development and maintenance of effective systems for the surveillance of communicable disease and environmental hazards
- Support development of effective relationships with a range of individuals and stakeholders
- Support development of policies for health protection issues and audit as part of quality/service improvement
- Participate in organisational/professional appraisal, revalidation and CPD as appropriate
- Participate in a local on call rota at sub-regional level
(A full list of duties and responsibilities can be found in the job description)
**Person specification**:
Please note there are two job descriptions attached, one clinical and one non-clinical and you should refer to these for full details of the role. Successful applicants would be appointed to the JD and T&Cs applicable to their professional background, qualifications and UK professional registration.
The North West health protection team operates Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm and provides an out-of-hours on-call duty service at all other times. The post holder will participate, following appropriate training, in the on-call rota, for which financial remuneration is provided as per terms and conditions of contract. The frequency of on call the post holder will undertake is based on service needs, expected to be >1:6 and
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