Advanced Health Protection Practitioner

**Your key responsibilities will include**: Response Use expertise and knowledge to lead the management of complex incidents and outbreaks of infectious diseases and non-infectious environmental hazards, in collaboration with the Incident Director. Assume management and supervision of the day to day acute response service and complex incidents to ensure high quality safe and effective delivery, if required. Manage and carry out continuing responsibility for a caseload ensuring accurate, up to date records of contacts/action by completion of relevant records and compliance with team handover procedures, in line with UKHSAs standards for record keeping. To utilise an evidence based approach to manage clinical/professional advice and discussions within the team and support and participate in the teams formal case review process.
To monitor standards, ensuring quality and consistency and to take action where any shortfall occurs. Contribute to and where required lead ongoing longer term management of issues relevant to a defined geographical area within their region. Contribute to the UKHSA response during incidents in line with UKHSAs Emergency Planning and Resilience Response (EPRR) arrangements as part of the regions responsibilities under the Civil Contingencies Act. Contribute to and support the UKHSA regions input into Emergency Planning arrangements.
May be required to participate in a local on call rota at local, regional or national level as required. Surveillance Contribute proactively and where required lead the development and maintenance of effective systems for the surveillance of communicable disease and environmental hazards for a designated area of work. Proactively use surveillance outputs to inform and influence local and national Public Health actions, policies and strategies. Contribute to health needs, health inequalities, health impact assessments and influencing both national and local priorities.
Develop and deliver appropriate teaching resources and activities across a range of audiences. Contribute to training programmes for Foundation Year Doctors and Specialist Trainees in the Faculty of Public Health training scheme as appropriate, and to the training of public health and health care professionals and practitioners within the locality. Ensure appropriate clinical supervision and mentorship systems are in place. Provide clinical/professional supervision and mentorship as appropriate.
The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The Job holder is expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary. Essential Criteria: As part of this campaign you will be assessed against the below 11 criteria, however, for full list of essential criterias please see job description attached. Registered General Nurse or Allied Health Professional in relevant clinical discipline with current professional registration e.g.
**Stage 2**: Interview (success profiles) You will be invited to a (single) face to face interview. If face to face interviews are planned, in exceptional circumstances, we may be able to offer a remote interview. Behaviours, technical, experience and ability will be tested at interview. There will be a 5-10 minute presentation at interview, the full details will be provided at the shortlisting stage.
**The Behaviour's tested during the interview stage will be**: Leadership (lead) Managing a Quality Service Changing and Improving Seeing the Big Picture Communicating and Influencing Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records. Location This role is being offered as hybrid working based at our Core HQ in Canary Wharf and our Scientific Campus in Colindale. We offer great flexible working opportunities at UKHSA andoperate using a hybrid working model where business needs allow.
This provides us with greater flexibility about how and where we work, to get the best from our workforce. 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). If based at one of our scientific campuses, you will be required to have a minimum of a Counter Terrorism Check security vetting check as a minimum. For meaningful National Security Vetting checks to be carried out individuals need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time.