Job responsibilities
Supporting the Epidemiological Insight Team Lead, you will take a central role managing the identification and provision of high-quality epi insight analyses and research across a broad range of infectious diseases of public health importance to the UK and international populations. You will make appropriate recommendations and coordinate planning, implementation, and maintenance of high-quality epidemiological outputs to meet stakeholder needs, providing expert technical advice whilst assessing the current and future political /economic /scientific /technological /legal /environmental influences on the teams work. As well as steering scientific analyses, you will write reports, regular and ad hoc publications, scoping and systematic literature reviews and peer-reviewed publications. This work will require you to have a high degree of autonomy and professional accountability.
You will need to have previous experience in developing and managing projects or delivering high-quality scientific outputs, in order to coordinate delivery of an agreed work programme and ensure timely reporting and excellent partnership working. You will need to have close attention to detail and be highly motivated.
Effective liaison with colleagues is key to influence decision-making and this role requires you to build and maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders and partners across the DAS Group, wider UKHSA and other colleagues as appropriate. At times you will need to manage challenging and/or conflicting subject matter problems in day-to-day workload referring/escalating as appropriate.
You will be a visible, positive and competent role model and motivator, adopting a senior leadership role for scientists and representing the team at UKHSA and external scientific fora and publish and present scientific papers in collaboration with health, public health, academic and other partners.
As a member of the Advanced Analytics Division management team, you will be involved with business planning and development of strategies. You will support senior managers to ensure day-to-day operational delivery of the divisional functions, its responsibilities and ensuring resources are fully equipped and fit-for-purpose; deputising where appropriate, using leadership approaches and skills. Effective line management of defined staff is required to ensure flexibility and capacity to meet the teams needs.
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent experience
- MSc in Epidemiology, or allied discipline or equivalent experience/education
- Knowledge of principles and practice of epidemiology, including data analysis - descriptive statistics and graphics and data reporting
- Experience of interpreting and evaluating complex epidemiological data, sensitive health data analyses and performing analytical epidemiology
- Demonstrable experience of public health, health protection or epidemiology including epidemiology for incident investigations
- Knowledge and experience of common statistical tests, modelling and analyses and interpret results appropriately, including for research purposes
- Experience of effective line management
- Able to build and maintain effective relationships with co-workers and key stakeholders, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with proven presentation and scientific report writing skills, including conducting high-quality literature reviews
- Proven capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- People supervisory and leadership skills that empower, support, and develop teams to encourage high performance and enable team members to reach their full potential
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, engender trust and confidence and demonstrate integrity in the provision of advice and support whilst working to tight and often changing timescales
- Understanding of information governance including data protection and confidentiality requirements
Desirable criteria
- Experience of research activities with a suitable publication record (3+ papers including 1+ first author) and grant writing experience
- Experience of using advanced epidemiological and statistical software package
We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice, where Everyone Matters promoting equality of opportunity to actively encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce.
UKHSA ethos is to be an inclusive organisation for all our staff and stakeholders. To create, nurture and sustain an inclusive culture, where differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our workforce and wider communities. We do this through celebrating and protecting differences by removing barriers and promoting equity and equality of opportunity for all.
Selection Process
This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Ability
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Stage 1: Application & SiftAs part of the application process, you will be asked to provide a Statement of Suitability in no more than 1000 words providing examples of how you meet the essential criteria. It should also detail what you and your experience can bring to the role.
This part of the selection process should outline how you consider your skills, experience and achievements, and provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with particular reference to the essential criteria outlined.
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. This will be used in sifting process and will be scored
If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to interview
Stage 2: Panel Interview
All applicants that progress to interview will be assessed on behaviours, experience and ability through Success Profiles.
You will be asked to prepare and present a 10-minute presentation. The subject of this will be sent to you prior to interview.
Behaviours to be assessed:
- Leadership
- Delivering at Pace
- Changing and Improving
- Developing Self & Others
Benefits
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- Range of health and wellbeing support
Any move to UKHSA from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare.
Reserve List:
Candidates who pass the interview criteria but are not offered a post will be kept on a reserve list for 12 months and may be contacted if similar roles become available.
If you are interviewed for the post and do not meet the required threshold for the specified grade, your application may be assessed against a similar, lower grade role and you may be offered the post should one be available.
DBS - People working with government systems must complete Basic Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks which includes a disclosure and barring security check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed for this role is BPSS however there may be a requirement for this role to be SC cleared and you should familiarise yourself with the criteria of security clearance.
This role is Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants. Appointments to roles within UKHSA will be made in accordance with the Civil Service nationality rules. These can be found athttps://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nationality-rulesThis job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- Nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- Nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- Nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of theEuropean Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- Relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- Relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- Certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's Recruitment Principles.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment.
Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.
Government baseline personnel security standard
Its important to note that there are currently exceptions to applications being considered if your conviction relates to any of the following:
- life sentences
- arson
- sexual offences
- hate and terror offences
Some departments will also consider the specific offence against the nature of the business, i.e., a conviction for fraud may rule you out for a finance role
Contact Details Sophie.Rigney@reed.com
