Senior Scientist

UK Health Security Agency; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

The Senior Scientist role sits within UKHSA's Rapid Investigation Team, Field Services, leveraging epidemiology to translate evidence into practice and strengthen disease surveillance and outbreak response in collaboration with NHS and partners. You will work with senior epidemiologists across topic areas and support local Health Protection Teams.

The role includes deploying nationally, conducting operational research, and developing reproducible analytical pipelines in R to support routine

Qualifications

• Experience supporting epidemiological investigations and surveillance.
• Ability to design and maintain reproducible analytical pipelines.
• Experience with data management in public health contexts.

Responsibilities

• Support and manage technical and analytical aspects of epidemiological outbreak investigations.
• Interface with local, regional and national colleagues and external partners.
• Engage in research activities including operational research and data collection deployments.
• Contribute to academic collaborations, publications and conference presentations.

Skills

Epidemiology

Data analysis

Team collaboration

Tools

R programming

Job description

This role sits within the Rapid Investigation Team, part of Field Services, which translates evidence into practice and strengthens disease surveillance and outbreak response through links with the NHS and other partners.,

• The Senior Scientist works closely with senior epidemiologist colleagues to provide epidemiological and data management support across a number of topic areas; and to the epidemiological investigation of incidents and outbreaks of infectious diseases and routine, supporting local Health Protection Teams and in collaboration with other partners.
• This will include supporting and managing the technical and analytical aspects of epidemiological outbreak investigations and supporting a team in carrying out these tasks. The interface with local, regional and national colleagues, as well as with external stakeholders, will be an important feature of this role.
• The role includes research and development activities, including operational research and the collection of qualitative and quantitative data, which will involve deployments nationally. This will also include contributing to academic research collaborations, publications and conference presentations to help generate the evidence base for best practice in outbreak and incident investigation and response.
• The postholder will be expected to develop and maintain reproducible analytical pipelines to support routine reporting, research, and incident response. This will require proficiency in the R programming language and the application of strong analytical and coding practices.
  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.