The Epidemiology and Information Systems Specialist works closely with UKHSA and NHS colleagues to support data capture and data management across a number of topic areas. The central facet of this post is to support the East of England's hospital laboratories in the secure reporting of infectious disease test data to UKHSA's Second Generation Surveillance System (SGSS).

The post also supports response to incidents and outbreaks of infectious diseases and works on the analysis, visualisation and communication of data to Health Protection Teams and other partners.

Key systems for this include the SGSS web application, SQL Server and Power BI.

Liaison with hospital laboratories, as well as with other internal and external stakeholders, is an important feature of this role.

Location

UKHSA Forvie Site, Cambridge, CB2 0SR

The current UKHSA policy is 40% office attendance (2 days out of 5), however this will be increasing to 60% in the New Year (3 days out of 5) in line with the most recent UK Govt. directive on office attendance for Civil Servants.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked from within the UK and not overseas. Relocation expenses are not available.

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