Biomedical Scientist

UK Health Security Agency; City Of London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A public health organization in the UK is seeking candidates for a position within their Operational Response Team. This role involves training and competency development in Public Health Microbiology, alongside contributions to national microbiological surveillance and outbreak control. The organization emphasizes inclusivity and encourages diverse applications. This is an excellent opportunity for those committed to public health and microbiological safety.

Responsibilities

• Participate in training and competency development for future incidents.
• Contribute to microbiological/virological surveillance programmes.
• Provide expert advice on microbiological threats.

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Operational Response Team (ORT) at UKHSA. The team was recruited to build resilience to Public Health Microbiology. The ORT are deployed across bacteriology and virology reference departments in times of need, which includes national incidents, outbreaks or threats to business‑as‑usual activity. When not deployed during an incident, the post holder will concentrate on training, maintaining competency and development of skills required to assist in future incidents such as training on automated equipment., At Public Health Microbiology laboratory teams undertake services of complex and highly skilled techniques which often require nationally or internationally unique capabilities or facilities. Reference laboratories are required to provide authoritative, final and validated analysis for complex clinical or food microbiological/virological problems and be innovative in driving microbiological/virological methodology developments and standards. They have a key role in provision of expert advice to government, national and international agencies, risk assessment for new and emerging microbiological/virological threats and play an important role in teaching and training organism specific and subject matter expertise to all grades of professional medical, nursing, scientific and technical staff. Design of national microbiological/virological surveillance programmes and sampling strategies and outbreak detection and control are part of day to day work of reference laboratories.

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.