Senior Epidemiologist
Quast Ltd, United Kingdom
Job Description
Our client, a large government department, are seeking a Senior Epidemiologist to join their team. This role is remote working.
Initial contracts will run for 3 months with the possibility of extension and offer a rate up to 600/day.
IR35 STATUS: Inside IR35. This engagement has been assessed by the public body as Inside IR35 legislation. Candidates would be required to operate through an umbrella company on this engagement.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 09/07/2021 at 15:00
Main Responsibilities
- Manage work programmes requiring high levels of surveillance and high-quality epidemiology to meet national and regional needs.
- Oversee the analysis and interpretation of surveillance data.
- Identify surveillance needs within given lead areas including 'horizon scanning'.
- Assess current and future influences on teamwork, including national priorities and pressures, whilst ensuring needs of stakeholders are met.
- Lead investigation of incidents of communicable disease - supporting and contributing the work of teams input.
- Team leader and manager: positively affect the behaviour and attitudes of team members and colleagues.
- Establish and maintain positive relationships and collaborations with key stakeholders at regional and national level.
- Lead the review and evaluation of outputs including regular reviews of lessons identified.
- Direct the evaluation of non-pharmaceutical interventions and translation of impact into action locally and more widely.
Skills and Experience
- Proficient and/or expert in common statistical/ database/mapping tools such as Stata, R, GIS, network analysis, SQL, Python, Jupyter notebook and others.
- Advanced knowledge and experience in epidemiology for outbreak investigations.
- Extensive knowledge of principles and practice of surveillance, including data management, data transmission, data security, data quality, data analysis including descriptive statistics and graphics and data reporting.
- Experience of overseeing complex health data analyses and interpretation.
- Experience of delivering statistical analyses for operational purposes.
- Experience of using advanced epidemiological and statistical software packages.
- Understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Experience of effective line management.
- Ability to apply epidemiological concepts to acute, complex and sensitive situations.
Candidate Eligibility
Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK, this role will not offer Visa sponsorship. Tier 2 General visas are cannot be accepted. This role requires that candidates be willing to undergo BPSS (DS) Baseline Personnel Security Standard (with a Disclosure Scotland).
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