UK Health Security Agency provided pay range
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The UKHSA Real-time Syndromic Surveillance Team, part of Field Services includes consultant epidemiologists, senior scientists, statisticians, analysts, and support staff. The team leads and delivers a national real-time syndromic surveillance service utilising GP (in/out of hours), emergency departments, ambulance, and NHS 111 data. Its aims are to provide early warning of infectious and non-infectious incidents, situational awareness during events, and reassurance of minimal public health impact during mass gatherings.
The Senior Scientist collaborates across UKHSA and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, supporting epidemiological investigations into climate change’s impact on non-vector borne infectious diseases. This work contributes to the Health Protection Research Unit in Climate Change and Health Security.
Field Services Division -
Field Services delivers geographically dispersed, integrated public health expertise in epidemiology, microbiology, and data science. It strengthens disease surveillance and outbreak response, supports evidence translation into practice, and maintains academic partnerships. It also leads UKHSA’s field epidemiology training.
Main duties of the job
Duties vary by site and team, but typically include:
* Lead surveillance design, statistical analysis, and reporting. Develop automated solutions and respond to complex data requests.
Outbreak Support
* Lead technical aspects of outbreak investigations, write protocols, contribute to reports, and train interviewers.
Statistical & Software Skills
* Apply statistical tests, automate processes, and use tools like Stata, R, ArcGIS, SQL, and SharePoint for analysis and reporting.
Audit & Governance
* Advise on quality, governance, and data security. Contribute to quality control, audits and ensure data integrity across systems.
Research & Projects
* Manage and support research projects, conduct literature reviews, apply for ethics/grants, and present findings at conferences.
Leadership & Management
* Lead initiatives, manage staff, develop policies, and support training. Act as a role model and contribute to relevant teaching programmes.
Professional Development
* Engage in appraisal, training, and mandatory learning.
Other Duties
* Undertake additional tasks as required and adapt to evolving organisational needs.
Communication
* Collaborate with internal/external stakeholders including UKHSA teams, NHS bodies, academic institutions, and public health partners.
Please note this list is not exhaustive.
Essential role criteria (including qualifications, licenses and registrations)
* Knowledge of principles and practice of surveillance, including data(base) management, data transmission, data security and governance, data quality, data analysis including descriptive statistics, visualisations, common statistical tests, modelling and interpretation of results (including for research purposes)
* MSc in Epidemiology, public health or allied discipline or equivalent level of experience/education (for example, completion of the Field Epidemiology Training Programme or equivalent training and experience)
* Experience of interpreting and evaluating epidemiological data, sensitive health data analyses and performing analytical epidemiology
* Demonstrable experience in public health, health protection, or epidemiology, gained through any relevant setting (e.g., academic, voluntary, private, or public sector)
* Experience of using epidemiological and statistical software packages, and proficient in common statistical/database/mapping tools such as STATA, R, GIS, network analysis, SQL, etc.
* Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with co-workers and key stakeholders
* Excellent oral and written communication skills with proven presentation and scientific report writing skills
* Able to work under own initiative, seek out new information and new ways to develop yourself as well as to respond to sudden unexpected demands whilst maintaining a professional calm and efficient manner
Desirable role criteria (including qualifications, licenses and registrations)
* Experience of research activities with one or more first author publications in peer reviewed journals
* Experience of teaching epidemiology and/or surveillance
* An understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships.
* Knowledge of health and social care environment, and roles and responsibilities within it including information flows in the NHS and allied services
* Experience of effective line management
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Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Science
Industries
Public Health
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