Senior Health Protection Practitioner

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

- 236756**Salary**:

- £48,526 - £58,769- plus on-call allowance**Grade**:

- Grade 7- AfC band 8a**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Health Professionals**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Part-time**Number of posts**:

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- PrestonAbout the 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 Cumbria and Lancashire 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)

**Responsibilities**:
This permanent post will be contractually based at our County Hall, Preston site and operationally responsible for the Cumbria and Lancashire sub-region.

Although currently the UKHSA NW teams are undertaking much of our work remotely, there is an increased expectation to work from your contractual site in the future, in line with UKHSA’s policies.

The post holder may be expected at times to work across our three NW sites, providing leadership and development to the service.

They will undergo a programme of on-going development and education to build on existing knowledge and develop skills to provide specialist health protection advice and meet competencies required to undertake the role.

**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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**Security**:
- People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.**Selection process details**:
At the United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA) our mission is to provide health security for the nation by protecting from infectious disease and external hazards. We are a trusted source of advice to government and to the public, focusing on reducing inequalities in the way different communities experience and are impacted by infectious disease, environmental hazards, and other threats to health.

Our mission is challenging, innovative and in the spotlight. We will work to ensure our people have the diverse skills, experiences and backgrounds we need to thrive, that our employees are representative of the communities we serve and feel valued and enabled to play their part in delivering our work.

Creating our working culture is an ongoing process which we are developing by listening and learning together, hearing and acting upon diverse voices and opinions to develop a common sense of identity and effective ways of working.

UK Health Security Agency promoted diversity in the workplace and is an Equal Opportunities employer.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**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
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