Consultant in Public Health Infection

1. Act as a key member of UKHSAs multidisciplinary team (including colleagues in health protection team(s), food, water and environment, FS, national experts, etc) delivering outbreak detection, prevention, and control across the region and, if required, to other regions and nationally. 2. Provide strategic leadership for determining the requirements and priorities for the provision and commissioning of PHM and infection services from the budget allocated to the region.
This will be undertaken in conjunction with colleagues in Health Protection Operations Group, Chief Scientific Advisor Group, the NHS, and Local Authority public health teams, to reflect the aims and objectives of the health protection system. 3. Act as the scientific and clinical interface between UKHSA and other providers of laboratory services in the region, including both the NHS and Independent Sector. This involves expertise in diagnostic microbiology, having strong clinical infectious diseases expertise, understanding data and analytical capacity and experience in providing advice/services in this regard.
4. Provide specialist and impartial advice on the prevention and control of a range of public health infections and other public health related topics as required across the Region. 5. To provide support to local health protection teams in delivering the HCAI/AMR agenda.
This may include peer review of local Infection Prevention & Control services at the request of partner organisations (e.g., NHS, local authorities) or health protections teams and providing strategic advice as required. This may be in response to concerns about practice, provision, or recent increases in HCAI/AMR cases/situations.6. Provide specialist and impartial advice for all infections of public health interest in the region, such as gastrointestinal infections, vaccine-preventable diseases, respiratory infections, and others as required.7. Contribute to the training and supervision of scientific and medical trainees within UKHSAs FS and wider laboratory network and act as an advocate for public health infection training in the NHS across the region.
8. Contribute to succession planning arrangements to help develop the FS CPHI team to meet future demands. 9. Provide a focus for research and development in public health infection across the region; in particular, develop strong partnership working with local academic centres and across UKHSA, including Health Protection Research Units (HPRUs), where appropriate.
10. Work with colleagues in the FS, UKHSA and NHS laboratory network and in health protection teams to ensure appropriate surveillance systems are in place and support the intelligent interpretation of surveillance data in the investigation of clusters and outbreaks of infection, both in the community and within hospital trusts. 11. Take a lead role with providers of NHS clinical microbiology services across the region to promote standards and outputs from existing and future surveillance schemes and routine laboratory reporting to provide information for improving the control and prevention of infection and the effective delivery of public health.
This is further enhanced by providing clinical diagnostic expertise to colleagues in FS and HPTs. 12. Be prepared to take on wider national roles and represent the FS in discussion with government departments, agencies, and professional groups as appropriate to individual expertise and experience and when requested by the Deputy Director of FS. 13.
Support the FS clinical governance structure and participate in clinical audit. Please see attached Job Description for further details. ExternalOpen to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants). Stage 1: Application & Sift This vacancy is using the Civil Service Competency Framework.
As a hybrid worker, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of your contractual working hours (approximately 3 days a week pro rata, (averaged over a month). Our core HQ offices are modern and newly refurbished with excellent city centre transport link and benefit from benefit from co-location with other government departments such as the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC).