Senior Health Protection Practitioner

Job description

Job responsibilities

STAGE 1 - APPLICATION & SIFT:

You will be required to complete an application form and a statement of suitability. Your Statement of Suitability should outline your skills, experience, and achievements, providing evidence of your suitability for the role, against the essential criteria (outlined in the person specification section). Your Statement of Suitability must not exceed 1250 words.

You will also be asked to provide information within the Employer/ Activity history section of the application form. This is equivalent to the information you would provide on a CV, setting out your career history. The sift selection panel will only consider relevant career history information from the last 5 years.

If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to an interview.

STAGE 2 INTERVIEW:

This competition will involve an interview via Teams.

As part of the process, candidates will be invited to interview which will involve an in-depth discussion of your previous experience and professional competence in relation to the criteria set out in the Person Specification.

The Success Profiles framework will be used at interview to assess and recruit the most suitable candidate. The following behaviours will be used at the interview:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Leadership
• Making Effective Decisions
• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and influencing
• Working Together
• Developing Self and Others
• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at Pace

Candidates might also be required to prepare and deliver a 5-minute presentation to the panel. This will be followed by a question-and-answer segment. The presentation will be designed to assess each candidates experience in line with the requirements of the role. Full details will be provided prior to the interview.

Expected Timeline:

Advert close: 23:55hrs 20/08/2023 unfortunately, late applications will not be considered. Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Interviews: TBC

Please note these dates could be subject to change.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• Registered General Nurse (RGN)
• Masters in Public health, or higher degree in a related subject, or evidence of CPD in health protection and documented experience at master's level practice

Desirable

• Recognised qualification in Infection Prevention and Control or demonstrable equivalent experience

Knowledge and experience

Essential

• Substantial experience in a health protection role at a senior level with specialist knowledge and expertise in Health Protection incorporating Specialist knowledge of the principles of health protection
• Substantial experience of Incident and outbreak investigation and management, leadership and Incident Management Teams.
• An understanding of and ability to work under the current Health and Social Care Act (e.g. safeguarding vulnerable adults; data protection, information governance)
• Experience of leading and maintaining quality and governance frameworks, and development of robust audit and service improvement practices and experience of maintaining Quality and Governance frameworks
• Proven experience and ability to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of/to others including managing and motivating a team and reviewing individual standards and Leadership, coordination, and management of projects (e.g. quality Improvement and research or public health initiatives)
• Ability to undertake on call responsibility for public health

Desirable

• Experience of building trusted stakeholder relationships networks in a politically sensitive and/or changing environment
• Experience in adult venepuncture

Skills / Capabilities/ Behaviours

Essential

• Effective verbal, written and presentation communication skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately for diverse audiences
• Evidence of ability to handle challenging issues taking a problem-solving approach to ensure proactive and effective resolution

Desirable

• Ability to interpret and analyse complex and/or sensitive information in a concise yet insightful way, pre-empting and evaluating issues and recommending appropriate course of action(s) and an understanding of ethical issues around surveillance and consent

Equality and diversity

Essential

• An understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

UK Health Security Agency

Address

National

National

NW9 5HT

Employer's website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-health-security-agency (Opens in a new tab)