Job Specifications
London, London (region), NW9 5EQ
Job Summary
The main responsibilities of the postholder will be to develop and maintain enhanced surveillance systems for vaccine preventable diseases, working closely with a wide variety of professionals from both within and out of UKHSA to ensure high quality data. They will understand vaccines, how they work and their utility in the national immunisation programme. They will be proficient at using different database platforms and tools (R, MS Access and SQL) and experienced in using statistical packages for performing epidemiological analyses and writing scientific papers for publication. They will produce regular and ad hoc outputs from these systems for inclusion in routine national and international reports, information requests and peer review articles. They will be comfortable presenting research work at local and national meetings and conferences. They will also manage the disease-specific web pages on the UKHSA website, ensuring that the old content is reviewed and updated in a timely manner. They will be responsible for supporting other departmental staff in website maintenance, developing infectious disease surveillance databases, database querying and report running.
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Job Description
Develop and utilise information and data systems related to the projects to underpin public health action across the department and surveillance systems
Have responsibility for the development and productivity of the data system(s) related to the projects
Undertake specialist and complex analyses of quantitative and/or qualitative datasets
Analyse and evaluate quantitative and qualitative data and research evidence from a range of sources to inform decision making
Receive, interpret, provide and advise on complex epidemiological and statistical information about the health of populations to the NHS, Department of Health and others
Specialist Advice and Evaluation
Communicate effectively and diplomatically research and other specialist information with colleagues from own or other disciplines and present findings at local, national and international meetings and conferences
Write and/or contribute to national and local policy setting reports, as well as peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals, on the health of the population
Research and Development
Undertake literature reviews, perform statistical analysis, evaluative research surveys, audits and other research as required
Teaching and Training
Assist in teaching and training courses run at Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, Colindale and outside, by producing presentation materials
The Postholder Will:
Maintain, develop and document enhanced surveillance systems including databases for each area of responsibility in collaboration with Consultant Epidemiologists, Clinical Scientists, Reference laboratory staff, Field service and Health Protection Teams where appropriate
Create and update queries and data validation checks for the removal of duplicate records, data formatting and ensuring completeness of data.
Liaise with regional stakeholder staff providing surveillance data
Liaise with clinicians, laboratories and HPTs regarding individual cases and outbreaks
Develop, update and maintain appropriate pages on the UKHSA website and dashboard in a timely manner. Work closely with scientists/managers on validation of content of the web pages to ensure uploaded data meets UKHSA website guidelines
Run regular queries on a wide range of databases to prepare annual surveillance reports for Health Protection Report as appropriate.
To assist the Information Officer with appropriate ad hoc queries for Parliamentary Questions and other information requests
To assist the Information Officer with the preparation of appropriate annual data sets for international organisations eg. World Health Organisation (WHO) and European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
Maintain appropriate disease specific Reference Manager databases in liaison with departmental scientific and medical staff
Contribute to papers for scientific journals and reports for the Department of Health and the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation upon request
Present surveillance data and study results at in-house and
About the Company
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is an executive agency of the Department of Health and Social Care.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is responsible for planning, preventing and responding to external health threats, and providing intellectual, scientific and operational leadership at national and local level, as well as on the global stage.
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