Job responsibilities
- Have expertise in presenting solutions to internal and external colleagues at all levels.
- Attending local and national meetings, either virtually or in-person with key stakeholders including the surveillance data team, wider divisional colleagues, health protection colleagues, and partner organisations for the UK Health Security Agency
- Ensuring personal and promoting team, compliance with corporate policies in relation to security, confidentiality, and release of information.
- Line management of relevant staff within your team as directed.
Other responsibilities
The above is only an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role.
You will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by the Directorate.
The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the organisation.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Pursue a programme of continuous professional development in accordance with any relevant professional registration or statutory requirements, while maintaining appropriate awareness of service provider requirements.
Identify, discuss, and action own professional performance and training / development needs with your line manager through appraisal / individual development plan.
Attend internal / external training events.
To complete all mandatory training as required, i.e., fire safety, information governance and all other mandatory training.
Main Duties of the Job
The post holder will develop working relationships and communicate regularly with a wide range of individuals, clinical and non-clinical, internal,
and external to UKHSA.
This will include:
Internal
As a member of UKHSA Data, Analytics and Surveillance you will be expected to work with and support colleagues across the Division. In particular, you will work with and support:
Other members of your function & division.
Members of other Data, Analytics and Surveillance teams with whom you may collaborate on local and national work programmes.
Colleagues in other UKHSA directorates such as Health Protection Operations and Technology.
External
The Data, Analytics and Surveillance role is to support the data and analytical needs of the local and national health protection system. Close working with external stakeholders is important to ensure that we meet their health protection needs.
Key external partners include:
Public health colleagues working in local authorities, particularly those working in health protection roles.
Colleagues working in NHS England and local Clinical Commissioning Groups
Colleagues in NHS England, Department of Health and other Government Departments.
Other external partners relevant to the work of Data, Analytics and Surveillance.
Skills and Capabilities
- Ability to analyse, interpret quantitative data and deliver both written and oral presentations to internal and external stakeholders.
- Accuracy and attention to detail in own work and the ability to quality assure the work of others.
- Ability to work to instruction and independently, to use initiative and also to work effectively as part of a team.
- Demonstrate capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Comprehensive skills in the use of at least some of the following to produce Reproducible Analytical Pipelines: SQL, SSIS, APIs, R and Python
- Skills in programming for example data extraction, manipulation, analysis and presentation using functional or procedural approaches in a language such as C#, F#, R, Python or Java. (Desirable)
- Knowledge of big data technologies such as NoSQL systems, Hadoop or equivalent (Desirable)
- An understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships, both in terms of day-to-day working practices, but also in relation to management systems.
We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice, where Everyone Matters promoting equality 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.
Essential Criteria:
- Experience in the use of data management methods for extracting, transforming and loading large data sets.
- Experience of working with multiple sets of health-related data and information systems in health-related organisations.
- Ability to analyse and respond to highly complex enquiries around health information from those at all levels e.g. liaising between external data suppliers and senior stakeholders.
- Knowledge of data security, information governance and confidentiality issues
- Line management experience and/or knowledge of the principles of good line management including the ability to manage a project team without direct line management responsibility of project team members (matrix working
- Educated to first degree level or equivalent relevant experience, preferably in a numerate discipline such as statistics, data science, mathematics, sciences, social sciences, economics, geography or similar.
- Post-graduate degree or equivalent experience in public health or related field including public health, statistics, knowledge transfer, health economics or data science.
Selection Process
Stage 1: Application & Sift
This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
As part of the application process you will be asked to provide a Personal Statement / Statement of Suitability in no more than 750 words. We will be assessing essential criteria at sift.
This should outline your skills, experience, and achievements, providing evidence of your suitability for the role, with particular reference to the Experience criteria or the essential criteria (outlined in the person specification section).
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 the sifting process and will be scored
Stage 2: Panel Interview
All applicants that progress to interview will be assessed on behaviours / experience / technical / ability through Success Profiles.
When assessing strengths, we want to find out whether you and the job role are a good fit. We will look at what you enjoy doing and what you do well and often. By ensuring that the role is the right fit for you, you are more likely to enjoy it and perform well.
The Behaviours tested during the interview stage will be:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
- Delivering at Pace
- Managing a Quality Service
- Making effective decisions
- Changing and Improving
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
